AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Jjortintltttral Hqrartntent 
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The New-York IIorticclturae Society was j 
interrupted in its regular meeting, on Monday | 
evening, by the severity of the storm, and con- \ 
sequently was adjourned for one week. Some ! 
unique drawings of Suburban Gardens were ex- : 
hibited, which are well worth an examination 
by the next meeting. 
A very fine specimen of the Orchid family, 
with the billet of wood to which it had attached 
itself, was exhibited by Mr. Scott. The long 
spike of delicate and beautiful flowers elicited 
universal admiration. 
We are informed that the tomatoes and 
strawberries, referred to in our last report, were 
not from Wm. Charlton’s green-house, as re¬ 
ported. 
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BROOKLYN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
This spirited Society held its regular meeting 
on Thursday evening, the 21st inst., at their 
rooms in the Atheneum, corner of Atlantic and j 
Clinton streets, which was very well attended. 
Some very handsome Pot Iloses, Acacias, 
Fuschias, Geraneutns, Seedling Cinerarias, and j 
Seedling Pansies were exhibited by the Messrs. 
Poynter, Canner, Weir, and others, and several 
vigorous plants of different varieties of the 
strawberry, with large ripe fruit on the stems, 
were exhibited in a pot from the green-house of 
John B. Kitchen. 
Jonx W. Degrauw, Esq., their President, oc¬ 
cupied the chair, and the meeting was chiefly 
occupied in perfecting their arrangements for 
the spring exhibition, which is to be held at the 
Brooklyn Atheneum, on the 10th, 11th, and 12th 
of May. 
Very liberal premium lists, amounting in all 
to about four hundred dollars, are already out. . 
This Society was organized but two months 
\since, yet the meetings have already called out 
large audiences of the ladies and gentlemen of 
Brooklyn. 
We think the Society gives promise of, and i 
we heartily wish it, a large success. 
PEACHES AND CREAM, STRAWBERRIES, 
GREEN PEAS, AND TOMATOES. 
All of the above are now in perfection in the 
New-York market. We have just been regal- 
ing ourselves with a lunch of them, fresh and 
excellent. Peaches, the genuine Morris Whites, 
just ripe, and cut up to order. Strawberries, 
large and luscious, smothered in cream, or by 
the peck, or larger quantities, as desire and purse 
may demand. Green Peas and Tomatoes in 
order to prepare for the table. 
If any of our northern readers wish to know 
how this is all accomplished, we will add, the 
Peaches, Green Peas and Tomatoes, came from 
Bermuda, and the Strawberries, ripe, (Hovey’s,) 
in large quantities, from Georgia, and we sus¬ 
pect from our friend Peabody’s eight-acre field 
of them near Columbus. 
From present appearances, we think the sea¬ 
son of these luxuries will be satisfactorily long 
with the New-Yorkers. If any are curious to 
know the cost, we answer, a nice dish of 
Peaches and Cream, (not milk,) &c., eighteen 
pence; and one shilling for the same of Straw¬ 
berries. 
THE DOUGLAS FIR.- 
On receiving Turner's London Florist for 
February, we so much admired the noble coni¬ 
fer therein represented, that we placed it in the 
hands of the artist to transfer it to the Agricul¬ 
turist, and we here present it for the gratifica¬ 
tion of our readers. 
It is called Abies Douglassi, or the Douglas 
Fir, so named in honor of Mr. D. Douglas, who 
first introduced it into Great Britain in the year 
1826, from the North-west coast of America. 
This specimen is said to be the finest in Eng¬ 
land, and was raised from seed in the spring of 
1828, transplanted into ordinary soil, and has 
flourished since with only an occasional top¬ 
dressing of decayed vegetable mold. It is now 
25 years old, 70 feet high, diameter of branches 
58 feet. In its native soil it attains the great 
height of 180 feet, with a trunk 12 to 15 feet in 
diameter, and its branches spread out near the 
ground to a diameter of 140 feet. It is perfectly 
hardy, and this has grown so rapidly, as to 
average two and a half feet annually. The tim¬ 
ber is of yellow color, firm and heavy; the tree, 
as will be seen from the engraving, “assumes an 
upright conical form, with numerous horizontal 
branches, from the ground upwards, thickly 
set with foliage; the leaves are of a pleasing 
green color, and remain a long time on the 
branch, and thus form a dense mass of foliage, 
-(Abies Douglassi J 
which adds much to its value as an ornamental 
tree; and when the young shoots (which are at 
first of a bright silvery green) protrude in the 
spring, the contrast between them and the older 
shoots from which they proceed, shed a varied 
mass of light and shade at once beautiful and 
striking.” 
Most of our best nurserymen’s catalogues 
advertise this beautiful evergreen, and we can, 
without hesitation, recommend its more general 
adoption in this country, We wonder that 
trees of this, and other similar classes, arc not 
more common among us. Every farmer, or other 
householder, possessing a half acre of land, 
ought at least to set out a group or two, or one 
or two belts of our beautiful evergreens, which 
grow so freely and become so very ornamental, 
furnishing alike, a cool refreshing shade from 
the summer solstice, and a noble protection 
from the cold winds and driving storms of mid 
winter. 
Almost every one can get the Hemloclc, and 
we have high authority for pronouncing it “ the 
finest evergreen tree indigenous to North Amer¬ 
ica for ornamental purposes.” 
We should not have been prepared to endorse 
the proposition which places the common Hem¬ 
lock in so high a position, had we not visited, 
3 years ago, the well-cultivated grounds of Mr. 
