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AM Kill CAN AGRICULTURIST. 
fjorficultnral gcmulnunt 
To Horticulturists. — Oui' wmekly issue of 
so large a journal, gives us ample room to devote 
to the different departments of cultivation, and 
we have commenced with this volume, to allot a 
separate space to Horticulture. "We have secured 
additional efficient aid in its conduction, and we 
invite horticulturists generally, to send in their 
contributions on all subjects interesting and in¬ 
structive to those engaged in similar pursuits 
with themselves. We are receiving the leading 
foreign and domestic horticultural journals, and 
shall be abundantly able to bring promptly be¬ 
fore our readers all that transpires, which may 
be new and useful. 
-- 
NEW-YOEK HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
This Society held its regular meeting at its 
rooms, GOO Broadway, on Monday evening, at 
seven and a half o’clock, Mr. J. 0. Groshan in 
the chair. 
The Committee on Vegetables reported pro¬ 
gress. Mr. Hepp presented three designs for 
Suburban Gardens and Villa Sites of areas, 
varying from half an acre to 13 acres. He gave 
us his views, through Mr. Scott, that in land¬ 
scape gardening, we should conform to the nat¬ 
ural scenery rather than adopt a contrast. 
That in the grouping of plants and flowers, we 
must follow nature, or the eye will not rest 
upon it with pleasure. It can be done only by a 
philosophic study of nature. Mr. Downing 
commenced this system, and left it to his stu¬ 
dents and followers to carry out. 
Mr. Parsons read an essay on the instructive 
and pleasing character of the products of na¬ 
ture, and the importance of cultivating the 
taste of our children for them. 
Mr. Mead concurred with Mr. Hepp in his 
views as to conforming to nature in laying out 
grounds, but thought it would be a long while 
before it would be done in this country. Our 
merchants retire from business as they are 
about to die, and at once task themselves with 
the adorning of a country residence and its 
grounds, without a knowledge of the laws of 
nature, and therefore do not follow them. He 
was glad that Agricultural - schools were spring¬ 
ing up in the land. We need gardeners that 
understand their business, and to ensure this, 
let us require of them a certificate of ability 
from any responsible Horticultural Society 
after a thorough examination. 
Mr. Hogg, Jr., said that in the laying out of 
ground, convenience and usefulness should be 
consulted as much as a pleasing effect. Curv¬ 
ed walks where they are not necessary, and 
hedging any walk, without it is a screen, are in 
bad taste. Also making a circular figure and 
planting an evergreen in the center. The 
beauty of trees and shrubs are enhanced by 
planting in belts and masses, allowing different 
kinds gradually to intermix. Evergreens min¬ 
gle well with many other trees, and produce a 
fine effect. 
Mr. Mead suggested that Mr. Hepp, in order 
to be better understood, should prepare an 
essay on landscape and suburban gardening cov¬ 
ering the whole ground, to be read at the next 
meeting. 
On motion it was resolved, that when we ad¬ 
journ, we adjourn to meet on Friday of next 
week, at 11 o’clock, at Barnum’s Museum. 
Mr Scott announced his inability hereafter to 
be present and report the proceedings of the 
Society, when, on motion, the subject was re¬ 
ferred to the Committee on Conversational 
Meetings. 
Mr. W. S. Carpenter, exhibited a fine bo- 
quet of wild flowers. Mr. Wm. Crampton, gar¬ 
dener to Mr. A. H. Stevens, exhibited a fine 
collection of cut flowers, Hibiscus, Ixias, &c. 
Mrs. Holbrook, by her gardener, David Scott, 
exhibited some beautiful seedling Calceolarias. 
Adjourned. 
PRUNE YOUR RASPBERRIES. 
If not already attended to, let this be done 
immediately. Four or five good canes are 
enough for one stool. Let the others be re¬ 
moved, and if you have no occasion to make a 
new plantation, distribute them among your 
neighbors. Many of them have never raised a 
fine raspberry, have not even heard of an Ant¬ 
werp or a Fastolf. Help them and their child¬ 
ren to a little knowledge from your garden every 
spring. It will make fruit-thieving less proba¬ 
ble in your neighborhood. 
London Fruit Market. —We notice in a re¬ 
view of the Covent Garden Market under date 
of March 11th it is said, “ Pears are now con¬ 
fined to Beurre Ranee, Easter Beurre, and Ne 
Plus Meuris, at from 75 cents to $1.50 per 
dozen. 
“Among dessert apples there are still good 
samples of Ribston Pippin and Old Nonpareil at 
$1.50 to $2.00 per bushel, or 15 to 25 cents per 
dozen. 
“Late Grapes are getting scarce, and Hot¬ 
house Grapes command from $2.50 to $5.00 
per pound ; and among vegetables, cucumbers 
37J- cents to 75 cents each, and asparagus $2.00 
to $2.50 per 100.” 
■-»♦«- 
To Keep Fleas and Bugs from Cucumbers. ? 
—One who has tried the experiment success¬ 
fully for three years, informs the Bangor Mer¬ 
cury that a few seeds of tomato dropped into 
the hill with cucumbers, or a tomato plant set 
out, wdiich is the better mode, will keep off 
black fleas and striped bugs, who dislike the 
flavor of the tomato.— Journal of Agriculture. 
For the American Agriculturist. 
THE CURCULIO--THE S0LFATERRE ROSE. 
In the first No. of the twelfth Vol. of the Ag¬ 
riculturist, you inform your correspondent that 
“Mr. Manrice paved the ground under his plum 
trees, but did not entirely succeed until he had 
a tight board fence put up around them.” He 
has not yet succeeded, although he has tried a 
board fence, paving the ground, and covering 
with gauze. I will now describe how it was 
performed. The trees were planted about six 
feet apart, five years old, growing vigorously, 
blossoming beautifully every spring, yet all the 
fruit would be destroyed by the curculio before 
it began to color, when the experiment com¬ 
menced. 
First, there was a tight board fence, 115 feet 
long, 45 feet wide, and 10 feet high, erected around 
the trees. For two succeeding years after that, 
we got a few plums; all the fallen plums were 
picked up regularly and destroyed ; but with 
this precaution the curculio went ahead. Then 
it was paved with brick, and the result was a 
few plums two years in succession. Then an¬ 
other enemy, the mildew, made its appearance. 
To remedy that, we removed every other row of 
trees, leaving them 12 feet apart between the 
rows. This was done in the fall of 1852, and 
in the spring of 1853 all the plum trees were 
covered with gauze, which was kept on until 
the plums began to color. In 1853 there was 
but little blossom, and the curculio destroyed 
most of the fruit that set. This year as soon as 
the plum season is over, I will let you know the 
result. It appears to me that the curculio is 
extremely difficult to eradicate after they are 
established. We have succeeded in keeping 
them away from some Apricot trees trained on 
the back outside wall of a “leanto” grapery. 
They were covered with gauze, fastened on very 
carefully with laths and nails, so as to prevent 
their ingress. I have tried every nostrum I 
have seen recommended in the periodicals, but 
with no success. 
I have been very successful this year in keep¬ 
ing celery. It was lifted with roots, and packed 
—but not to touch each other—in sifted coal 
ashes, covering the ashes after the celery is laid 
in with a little dry straw', and placing in a cool 
dry tool room. 
Can any of your readers inform me if the Rose 
Augusta, sent out last spring for $5 per plant, is 
different from the Solfaterre? I have been in¬ 
formed by an eminent rose-grower, that it is the 
same plant. Solfaterre is a beautiful rose when 
half open, but very ragged wffien fully expanded. 
There is one in the conservatory at this place, 17 
or 18 feet high, with scores of flower buds on it. 
The Solfaterre might be purchased of any florist 
for half a dollar per plant. 
Richard Parnell, 
Gardener to D. F. Manrice, Esq. 
Oatlands, L. April 5,1854. 
The last time we had the pleasure of convers- . 
ing with Mr. Manrice (previous to writing the 
article alluded to by our correspondent) on the 
subject of the curculio, we understood him to 
say the high board fence had prevented its ra¬ 
vages among his plums; but he more probably 
said he hoped it had. We are very glad, how¬ 
ever, to be informed of the facts of the case; 
though, of course, we deeply regret, in common 
with many others, that it did not succeed. 
The Augusta Rose is no better, nor distin¬ 
guished from the Solfaterre. We have had it in 
bloom, and our opinion coincides with that of 
all who know it. The advertisement and sale 
belongs to a class of transactions which should 
be severely condemned. The Solfaterre is one 
of our best roses, and the Augusta being equally 
good, is worth just 50 cents each. It has been ; 
sold extensively by some for $5, under the re¬ 
presentation that it is a hardy, climbing, ever- 
blossoming yellow rose. If it possessed all these | 
qualities, $5 would be cheap; but unfortunately 
it does not; like the Dutchman’s horse, which 
“ w r asht a first-rate horshe, only he w'asht plind, 
lame, and had the heavshes.” Most roses are 
ragged w'hen full blown. 
GRAPES FOR FOOD. 
Some months ago, we noticed in some of the j 
foreign journals, in the proceedings of one of 
the most distinguished medical societies, a 
strong recommendation of grapes as a prevent¬ 
ive or even curative of consumption. 
It was stated their free use resulted in the I 
happiest effects to persons thus affected, by aid¬ 
ing them in respiration, from the application of 
the grape sugar, wdiich has a great affinity with 
the oxygen of the atmosphere. 
We have often heard it asserted that a lung 
affection is unknown among the vineyard dis- 
