AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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To Horticulturists. — Our weekly 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. 
BROOKLYN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The monthly June exhibition of this active, 
working Society, was held in their rooms in the 
Atheneum, on the 15th and 16th insts., and was 
a highly creditable one. The tables were filled 
with a great variety of well-cultivated plants, 
which altogether made a very attractive display. 
Among these, we noticed a large and beautiful 
specimen of the Erythrina, or poral Plant, and 
another of the Fuchsia syringofolia, in Mr. Pren¬ 
tice’s collection. Also Allemanda, Cathatica, 
Ixoras, and Gloxinias, well grown and of choice 
varieties, from the garden of Mr. Langley. 
There were many large and excellent collect¬ 
ions of plants on exhibition. The first pre¬ 
mium for the best collection of miscellaneous 
plants, was awarded to Mr. J. E. Raucii. 
Best collection hot-house plants to James 
Weir; also for best collection of cut-flowers to 
the same person. 
It was the season for the full display of that 
favorite of all florists and amateurs, the rose, of 
which there was a fair exhibition. Mr. W. Bur¬ 
gess, of Glen Wood, L. I., had a well-grown 
specimen of a seedling Weeping Rose, pale blush, 
budded on a standard, with a brilliant Geant 
des Battailes on the top of the plant. He also 
had a seedling of a compact, well formed, bright 
blush rose, of medium size, named the Julia 
Burgess. Also a large bush of another of his 
seedling roses, named in honor of the lady of 
the President of the Society, Mrs. J. W. De- 
Graw. It is a very fine large rose, of almost as 
dark color as La Reine, and altogether promises 
well. He also exhibited good plants with fine 
specimens of Paul Ricout and Caroline de Sansel. 
The first premium for the best display of 
roses, was awarded to the President of the So¬ 
ciety, Mr. J. W. DeGraw. 
For the best 12 varieties perpetual, and for 
the best 12 varieties Hardy roses, to G. Marc, 
Astoria. 
For the best 12 Bengal, Bourbon, Tea and 
Noisette roses, to James Weir. 
For the best 6 distinct varieties of Hybrid Per¬ 
petual roses, to James Weir. 
The display of Fuchsias was uncommonly 
good; and there were, as in May, some of the 
best-grown specimens we have ever seen in this 
country. The first premium for the best three 
specimens, was awarded to John Humphrey. 
The exhibition of Pelargoniums and Pinks was 
very large. We noticed a very good seedling 
scarlet dwarf geranium, named Ingramii, of the 
habit of that fine variety, Scarlet Defiance, but 
of which it seemed to be really an improvement. 
There was much good taste displayed in the 
bouquets and ornamental designs on the center- 
table. The first premium for the best orna¬ 
mental design, was awarded to George Hamlyn, 
gardener to Mr. W. C. Langley. 
For the best parlor bouquets, to James Weir. 
For the best hand bouquets, to John Cranston. 
For the best basket bouquets, to James Park. 
There were a few remarkably fine fruits on 
exhibition. The first premium on white and 
black grapes, was awarded to J. V. Black, gar¬ 
dener to Mr. N. Stetson, of Bridgewater, Mass., 
for Cannon Hall Muscat, White Muscat, of Al¬ 
exandria, and Black Ilamburgs. The first 
named were the largest and best specimens we 
have ever seen on any exhibition at any season 
of the year. 
The first premium on cherries was awarded 
to Martin Collopy, gardener to Mr. J. II. Prentice. 
The first premium on strawberries to the same 
person. 
There were six of the largest best grown 
heads of lettuce on exhibition we have ever seen, 
measuring more than nine inches across, look 
ing at first sight like cabbages, and for which 
the first premium was awarded to John Fergu¬ 
son, gardener to Mr. H. A. Kent. Excellent 
cauliflower of the same dimensions across the 
top were exhibited, for which the first premium 
was appropriately given to James Scanlan, gar¬ 
dener to Mr. R. L. Cott, of Patterson, N. J. 
The first premium on rhubarb was awarded 
to Mr. Collopy, gardener to Mr. J. II. Prentice, 
and the same was given to George Ingram for 
the best peck of new potatoes. 
The arrangements of the exhibition were, as 
usual, very good ; but if we were members of 
the Society, we would suggest to the managers 
a few minor amendments. 
Roses and all ocher flowers and plants should 
be distinctly labelled with the name, and also 
with the name of the exhibitor. These two 
things were quite too generally neglected. Some 
of the finest collections of roses, and which in 
some cases would have changed the awards, 
were without the name of a single variety. 
The judges having passed around the cards 
with the names of the exhibitors, might have 
been thrown on the tables immediately. Many 
persons wish to know the names of all. exhib 
itors. The judges ought not to trespass an hour 
and a half on the time belonging to the public. 
Many ladies were kept in waiting that long, and 
some left in consequence. 
Could not Brooklyn at this season of the 
year exhibit more than one or two varieties 
each of strawberries and cherries ? We think 
it could had the effort been made. 
When we left, the exhibition bid fair to be 
well attended, and every one seemed highly 
gratified. The semi-annual exhibition in May 
cost rising of eight hundred dollars, but we are 
glad to hear the receipts exceeded the expenses. 
We presume it will be so now. 
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To Keep Birds from Picking Fruit. —As the 
season is coming on for the depredations of 
birds, I beg to report my experience of last 
year, when I saved my cherries by hanging up 
several pieces of tin with strong thread in the 
different trees, two pieces being hung near 
enough together to clash with the wind, which 
sound, with the bright reflection of the tiq. ; n 
the sun, certainly frightened them away; and I 
had my due share of fruit, which, the preced¬ 
ing year, I was obliged to relinquish to them. 
So says a New-Jersey farmer .—Maine Farmer. 
[EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.] 
HORTICULTURE ABOUT BURLINGTON, VT. 
TnE great charm of this city, is its lake and 
the surrounding scenery. These are unrivalled, 
at least, by any thing we have yet seen in New- 
England. The college buildings are on the sum¬ 
mit of a hill, some 250 feet above the lake, and 
about a mile distant. Between these buildings 
and the shore, the town is laid out in handsome 
streets and squares. The building lots are am¬ 
ple, and most of the houses have gardens, many 
of them large ones, of an acre or more. A 
Horticultural Society has been formed in the 
valley of this lake, which holds its annual exhi¬ 
bitions around at different villages. We were 
present at an exhibition held here two years 
ago, and the display of strawberries, green peas, 
cucumbers, flowers, &c., did credit to the horti¬ 
culture of this region. It is not until quite re¬ 
cently, that the citizens have turned their atten¬ 
tion to this matter, and most of the fruit-yards 
are quite young. The streets were once orna¬ 
mented with locust trees, but the worms made 
such ravages among them, that a large part of 
them were destroyed, and a second growth of 
maples, elms, and horse chestnuts, are coming 
forward to take their places. 
Some of the gardens upon the hill, are hand¬ 
somely laid out, and show taste in the selection 
and arrangement of the ornamental trees and 
flowers. We visited, among others, the garden 
of Rev. Dr. Wheeler, formerly president of the 
college. He has commenced his horticultural 
operations quite recently, but has succeeded 
already, in turning a wet, heavy piece of land 
into a fine garden soil. He has a very thick, 
well-grown hedge of Arbor Vital, upon two 
sides of his premises, and we noticed this ever¬ 
green, elsewhere cultivated as a hedge, with en¬ 
tire success. Several in the village, are now 
some six feet high, are thick at the bottom, and 
the boughs completely interlace each other. 
It is a native of this region, and grows to a 
good-sized tree of forty or fifty feet high, and 
a foot in diameter, in the wet woodlands, and 
upon the islands in the lake. At Judge Meech’s, 
in Shelburn, there is a garden of two acres, en¬ 
closed with a belt of these trees, set out 20 years 
ago. They are now well-grown trees, and form 
a complete protection from the lake winds. 
They have changed the climate within the en¬ 
closure, and many tender plants and shrubs 
flourish there, that cannot be raised without 
such shelter. We have seen fine hedges of this 
tree in Hartford, and in Westport, Ct., and else¬ 
where, and from its success in these different 
localities, we have no doubt that it will prove 
one of the finest hedge plants for New-England, 
and perhaps for all the Northern States. The 
Buckthorn also does well here in hedges. 
Another ornamental tree, which the Presi¬ 
dent pointed out to us in his grounds, and 
which appeared to fill his eye as a model of 
beauty, was the Double Balsam Fir. It was 
brought to notice some years ago by Fraser, 
and from him is known in the botanical works 
as the Pinus Frazeri. It is found on some of 
the summits of the Alleghanies, but is rather 
Scarce in New-England, We did not know that 
