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Testimonial to the G-ardener's Monthly. 

 — The following correspondence explains itself: — 

 "Penna. Horticultural Society, ] 

 Philadelphia^ June 25th, 1867. j 

 Mr. Thomas Meehan, 



"Dear Sir: — A number of your personal and 

 horticultural friends, desiring to testify their appre- 

 ciation of your life long service in the cause of hor- 

 ticulture, and especially of the signal aid which you 

 have rendered to this Society through the columns 

 of the Gardener^ s Montldy, so generously prof- 

 fered to its service, have united in the purchase 

 from the Ladies' Bazaar, of the accompanying por- 

 trait of Washington, by Rembrandt Peale, which 

 they desire you to accept in token of their high re- 

 gard. 



"Allow me to add the assurance of my own 

 warm friendship. 



" Yours, sincerely, 

 "A. W. Harrison, Sec'yr 



Germantown, Pa., July \st, 1867. 

 Mr. A. W. Harrison. 



Dear Sir : — The portrait of General Washington, 

 presented, through you, by a number of my horti- 

 cultural friends, I accept with grateful feelings for 

 this valuable token of their kind regard. At the 

 same time I cannot but feel that much of the merit 

 which my services may seem to claim from the 

 lovei^ of horticulture is due to the Horticultural 

 Society, so many of the members of which haye 

 united to do me honor in this pleasant way. 



I came into your midst twenty years ago a stran- 

 ger and in company only with a zealous love of 

 horticulture, — but I found at once in your Society 

 kindred spirits, associating with whom horticultu- 

 ral taste once begotten could never die. 



To return to others a portion of the pleasures I 

 have so liberally received would alone be sufficient 

 to induce my best exertions, — and yet I feel renewed 

 encouragement by this generous manifestation of 

 your regard. 



The picture and kind letter which accompanied 

 it will ever be associated with pleasant memories, 

 and I beg you to return the donors my best thanks. 

 Very truly yours, 



TnoiiAS Meehan. 



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Planting Young Trees in Fall— J. H. , Litiz, 

 Pa., writes : " That he has so much difficulty in get- 

 ting young stocks in Spring — or in getting some 

 desired things in Fall, whether we would advise 

 him to get things and plant in the Fall." 



We have never seen Fall planting of small things 

 very successful. The best way is to bury up young 

 stocks entirely with earth, and take them up and 

 set out as early in Spring as one's season will 

 permit. We do not know how far to recommend 

 this practice with evergreens ; we have only seen it 

 done with arborvitses, and these were a complete 

 success. 



Henderson's Clustered Houses.— W^e extract 

 the following from a private letter of Mr. Saunders, 

 of the Department of Agriculture, at Washington. 

 It was not written with a view to publication, but 

 as it contains facts that ought to go on record, Mr. 

 S. will, we are sure, pardon us for the liberty we 

 take in using the paragraph. " In looking over 

 the Monthly to day t noticed continued discussions 

 on the clustered houses of P. Henderson. It has 

 always been my impression that Marnock of the 

 Regents Park Grarden, was the first to put up and 

 recommend this mode of building. In the Phila- 

 delphia Florist away as far back as 1852, I sugges- ' 

 ted graperies on that mode ; in 1860 a plan was given 

 in the Farmer and Gardener, of Spangler. I re- j 

 peated same plan in Ag. Report of 1861." 



Orchard Houses. — N. D. G., New Yorh. — 

 " My employer intends building an Orchard House 

 " span roof:" would you make one entire bed in the 

 house to plant the trees in, or partition the bed off? 

 If so, what space would you allow for the roots of , 

 each tree ? Is it necessary to use netting over the 

 ventilators to exclude insects and if so, what sort is 

 best? 



I hke Mr. Thom.pson's letter in July Monthly, and 

 your own very sensible remarks on the same sub- 

 ject. What a man can do is of no practical use to 

 the readers of the Monthly unless they are also told 

 how they may accomplish the same thing." 



[We would not advise them to be put into beds 

 at all, — divided or undivided. So far as we know all 

 attempts on this plan in the United States have 

 failed. 



In pots or tubs fruit trees are very successful, and 

 we believe on no other plan do they do well. 



Those whom we know to be very successful with 

 their orchard houses take no precautions against ^ 

 the Curculio coming by the ventilators. If, how- p 

 ever, they are found likely to be troublesome, gauze , 



