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- To BE WIDELY KNOWN, 



Pennsylvajiia Horticultural So- 

 ciety. — The spring exhibition 

 will be held at Horticultural 

 Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., opening 

 on Tuesday evening, March 29, 

 at 8 o'clock, and remaining open 

 until April i. The premium-list 

 is an extensive and liberal one. 

 Indiana Horticultural Society.— The thirty-first an- 

 nual meeting was held in the hall of the society, in the 

 State House, Indianapolis, on Tuesday, Wednesday and 

 Thursday, December i to 3, i8gr. Denison Hotel was 

 the headquarters of the society during the meeting. — 

 W. If. Ragan, Sec'y, Greencastle, Indiana. 



The Chautauqua Grape- growers. —The Chautauqua 

 County (N. Y. ) Horticultural Society is discussing 

 measures to form a consolidation of the grape-growers 

 and to make better railroad arrangements for shipping. 

 The following ofificers were elected for the year ; Presi- 

 dent, J. J. Keyes, of Hanover; secretary, S. S.Crissey, 

 of Fredonia; treasurer, P. M. Manton, of Fredonia 



The American Carnation Society is organized for the 

 purpose of improving the carnation in every possible 

 way. It is not a trade organization, but every person 

 who grows, or buys, or loves the divine flower is wel- 

 comed within its ranks. The preliminary meeting was 

 held in Philadelphia October 15, and the organization 

 was completed November 4 at St. James' hotel, New 

 York city, and the first annual meeting will be held in 

 Buffalo, N. Y., third Tuesday in February, where an 

 exhibition of carnations will be held. Many new and 

 improved varieties are expected to be there that have 

 never before been shown to the public. Very great 

 interest is manifested all over the country. Many 

 growers and amateurs are experimenting with seedlings 

 with the hope of producing the ideal as laid down by 

 that friend of horticulture, John Thorpe. 



Essays on interesting and instructive matters con- 

 nected with the carnation will be read and discussed, 

 and there is little doubt much useful and desirable infor- 

 mation will be elicited. 



The officers elected until the meeting to be held in 

 Buffalo are : President, Edwin Lonsdale, vice-presi- 

 dent, William Swayne; treasurer, C. W. Ward, East 

 Moriches, N. Y. ; secretary, C. J. Pennock, Kennett 

 Square, Chester Co., Pa. All the officers as above act 

 as ex-officio members of the executive committee. The 

 three others are R. T. Lombard, Wayland, Mass. ; 

 James Hancock, Grand Haven, Mich., and Robert 

 Craig, Philadelphia. Vice-presidents were elected in 

 the different sections of the country to look after the 

 interests of the carnation in their particular localities, 

 and altogether the outlook for this popular flower is 

 most promising. Persons wishing to become members 



should send their names to Secretary Pennock, Kennett 

 Square. Dues two dollars a year. 



Pears in Kansas. — At the last meeting of the Kansas 

 horticulturists, B. F. Smith recommended a succession 

 as follows: The Tyson first early, thenClapp's Favorite, 

 Bartlett, Seckel, Sheldon and Buerre d'Anjou. The 

 Duchess he considered too coarse, and the Winter Nelis 

 too small. The Bartlett suffers badly from blight, but has 

 the redeeming habit which no other variety seems to have, 

 of sending out new sprouts. 



Staking Fruit-trees. — At a re- 

 cent horticultural meeting in Ohio, 

 the subject of staking trees came up 

 for discussion. One method sug- 

 gested was to tie the tree to a stake 

 with a straw band, twisting the 

 band in the form of a figure 8 as 

 shown in illustration (reproduced 

 from Ohio Farmer). This prevents 

 all injury to the tree by being 

 rubbed against the stake when sway- 

 ing back and forth. 



Chrysanthemum Names. — Edwin 

 Lonsdale, secretary of the American 

 Chrysanthemum Society, announces 

 that registration of the names of new chrysanthemums 

 has begun, T. H. Spaulding having handed in the follow- 

 ing list : American Flag, Amy Carey, Annie Lonsdale, 

 B. S. Hubbell, Christopher Columbus, Chicago, Col- 

 umbia, Columbian, Chow-Chow, E. Hitzeroth, Ethel 

 Paul, Excelsior, Gus Bennett, J. N. May, Lillian Rus- 

 sell, Looking Backward, Mamie Craig, Masterpiece, 

 Mrs. J. W. Morrissey, Pauline Hall, Ruth Cleveland, 

 Standard, Shenandoah, William Barr. 



Arsenites and the Curculio. — Before the October meet- 

 ing of the Summit County (O.) Horticultural Society, 

 Prof. Claypole said he thought results in spraying had 

 been overestimated, especially in the case of spraying 

 for curculio, or plum-weevil as he insists upon calling 

 it. He had visited the State Experiment Station and 

 seen Professor Weed's trees, and there were plums on 

 the trees not sprayed as well as on the others, and he 

 thought an impartial observer would have found it dif- 

 ficult to make out a case in favor of the results of ar- 

 senical spraying as a preventive of curculio. 



Weeds in Ohio. — The worst six weeds for centra- 

 Ohio, taken in order of present menace, are wild carrot, 

 Canada thistle, toad-flax, prickly lettuce, oxeye daisy, 

 and wild morning-glory. This list is probably not corl 

 rect for all parts of the state. Many times six will be 

 required to include all troublesome weeds. The ones 

 named above agree in that they require similar treat- 

 ment for their destruction, viz., to keep them constantly 

 cut, or to occupy the ground with some thoroughly well- 

 cultivated hoed crop for two or more successive years. — 

 A. D . Selby, before the Columbus (O.) Hort. Society. 



The Peach Tree not Short-lived.— In France there 

 are peach trees more than 100 years old. In Maryland 

 and in Delaware there are bearing orchards that were 



