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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
actually got more corn from his part than the 
laborer did from the whole remaining por¬ 
tion of the field. This mode of applying 
guano is slow, but we think it amply com¬ 
pensates for the extra labor.— W. E. Cowles, 
in Country Gent. 
fjkiio:Itral 
NEW-YOKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Society met at its rooms, No. 600 
Broadway, on Monday evening, March 5th, 
Prerident Wilson G. Hunt in the chair. 
The minutes of the meeting heing read, 
and a Treasurer elected for the ensuing year, 
a committee was appointed to examine the 
flowers- These were classed as follows: 
No. 1, exhibited by Mr. W. Cranston, gar¬ 
dener, to E. Stephens, Hoboken, included 
four species of acacia, two seedling verbenas, 
two seedling mimulus, and one azalea. The 
verbenas were thought to be very promising. 
No. 2 was a collection of camelias and 
roses, exhibited by Mr. More, Ninety-eighth- 
street. The camelias were very perfectly 
grown for the season, and both specimens 
highly commendable. 
No. 3 was exhibited by Mr. Thomas Hogg, 
Jr., consisting mostly of camelias and some 
rare and beautiful specimens of Orchids. 
Also a Bignonia Picta, highly colored, which 
attracted much attention. 
The examination being ended, Mr. J. W. 
Degrauw, President of the Brooklyn Horti¬ 
cultural Society, was proposed and elected 
a member of the society, which then, on mo¬ 
tion, adjourned. 
THE CALCEOLARIA. 
Florists, and even gentlemen’s gardeners, 
have lately evinced a disposition to throw the 
herbaceous kinds of Calceolarias out of cul¬ 
tivation, and to substitute for them shrubby 
sorts which are more easily managed, and 
against which I have not a word to say ; but 
still 1 regret to see the other varieties, most 
of which are far handsomer than the shrub¬ 
by kinds, so much neglected as they now are. 
I have therefore furnished the following re¬ 
marks on their management, with the view 
of directing more attention to them than they 
have lately received. It is true they are 
somewhat difficult to winter, but neverthe¬ 
less I feel certain that any one who will 
strictly carry out my plan of growing them 
need entertain no apprehensions of failure. 
Let us commence at the time they have done 
flowering, which is, under ordinary circum¬ 
stances, about the latter end of June. As 
soon afterwards as circumstances will per¬ 
mit, divest them of their flower stalks and 
dead leaves, and top-dress them about an 
inch deep with silver sand and yellow loam 
in equal portions, taking care that all the ripe 
joints of the young shoots are covered for 
about half that depth ; afterwards place them 
in a cool shady situation until the beginning 
or middle of September, giving occasional 
waterings during that period. By this time 
it will generally be found that most of the 
shoots so covered have emitted a sufficient 
number of roots to admit of their being re¬ 
moved with safety from the parent plant; 
this operation I perform in the same manner 
as is generally done by gardeners in the re¬ 
moving of layers of Carnations. I then plant 
them in 5-inch pots, or smaller if necessary, 
and place them in a frame on a gentle bot¬ 
tom heat of tan, taking care at this period to 
guard against the direct influence of the sun 
until they are fairly established in their pots. 
The compost I use for the first potting is, 
three parts of a yellow loam, four of well 
decomposed leaf mold, one of cow dung, 
which has lain at least twelve months, and 
two of silver sand. This soil I varyas the 
plants strengthen and approach their flow¬ 
ering season, until the proportions are five of 
loam, two of leaf mold, two of cow dung, 
and one of silver sand. From the time the 
plants are well established in their pots 1 
give them no particular attention beyond 
that of slightly fumigating them once a week, 
a routine to which I subject them during 
their whole period of growth, until about the 
beginning of January, when I shift them into 
larger pots and place them on the front stage 
of a geranium house, the temperature of 
which is kept at 45° with an exceedingly 
humid atmosphere. I ought to observe, that 
in shifting I always sink the ball a little to 
admit of atop dressing of fresh mold being 
put over the ripe joints of the young wood, 
which very soon emit roots, an operation 
which tends materially to increase the size 
and strength of the plants. I am also very 
particular as to drainage, never allowing a 
particle of the old drainage to be removed; 
and by the time they are placed in their flow¬ 
ering pots, I have a complete open drain 
from within a few inches of the surface down 
to the bottom of the pot, with the exception 
of the layers of fresh turf, which I always 
introduce between the mold and potsherds. 
This temperature, and a careful attention to 
fumigation. I consider the most essential 
points in the cultivations of Calceolarias of 
this class ; for if they once become infested 
by green fly, no art can prevent the disfig¬ 
urement of their foliage, and few plants are 
more impatient of an excess of moisture at 
their roots than herbaceous Calceolarias are. 
It should be observed, however, that in fumi¬ 
gating, care must be taken to avoid doing so 
in excess ; for if smoke is applied to them in 
the same quantity as would be proper for 
peaches or other plants of a hardier nature, 
they will be certain to suffer from its effects. 
In watering, I am guided more by the ap¬ 
pearance of their foliage than by the mold 
in the pots ; if they are in a proper state, 
their foliage will be found every morning to 
be fringed with drops of dew, which is a cer¬ 
tain indication of health. When this has not 
been the case, I have always found that my 
plants were either too wet or too dry. By 
using the above compost, attending to tem¬ 
perature and atmospheric moisture, avoiding 
an excess of water at their roots, and slightly 
fumigating once a week, I have grown many 
of the beautiful, but now old-fashioned, va¬ 
rieties, to the size of between 2 and 3 feet in 
diameter in the head of flowers. This, how¬ 
ever, can not be accomplished without fol¬ 
lowing accurately the instructions just laid 
down, which I consider necessary to bring 
such plants to perfection. S. 
Gardeners' Chronicle. 
Origin of the term “ Dunning.” —Some 
falsely think that it comes from the French, 
where donnez signifies “give me,” implying 
a demand for something due; others from 
dunan (Saxon), “ to thunder;” but, the true 
origin of this expression owes its birth to 
one Joe Dun, a famous bailiff of Lincoln, so 
extremely active, and so dexterous at the 
management of his rough business, that it 
became a proverb, when a man refused to 
pay his debts, to say, “ W T hy don’t you, ‘ Dun’ 
him V ’—that is, “ Why don’t you send Dun 
to arrest him V’ Hence it grew into a cus¬ 
tom, and is now as old as since the days of 
Henry VII. 
True nobility is exempt from fear. 
ORCHARDS, APPLES AND THE MARKET. 
“ David, I am going to quit the nursery 
business. In twenty-one years fruit will be 
a drug in New-York city. Just look around 
this neighborhood ! There is deacon Jones 
has just set out five hundred trees; Tom 
Smith 400, and his brother Jim will have 
1,000 next spring, and so on at that rate all 
over the country—grafted fruit, too, none of 
it for cider. Now what do you suppose is 
to become of all these apples I I tell you 
what it is, David, wc must wind up the nur¬ 
sery business or we shall break flat. Every¬ 
body will grow it, but nobody buy it, a few 
years hence.” 
This prognostication was made more than 
twenty years ago by a sensible man engaged 
in propagating choice fruits for sale in Cen¬ 
tral New-York, and no doubt the speaker 
honestly believed the days of the nursery 
man were well nigh numbered. Brother 
David, however, was of a different opinion. 
He did not believe it was so easy to over¬ 
stock the market with such fruit as no other 
than American soil and climate can produce. 
He did not believe ’ere twenty years’ time 
would elapse every body would have an or¬ 
chard, the products of which would be so 
unsaleable, and the.business so unprofitable, 
the owner could have no desire to plant more 
or better, or newer varieties of trees ; con¬ 
sequently he urged that the business should 
be perseveringly continued until the dawn¬ 
ing of the day was more visible in the hori¬ 
zon. 
What has been the result 1 A sale of 
40,000 apple trees and 7,000 of other fruits 
during the planting season of last year, and 
the prospect for the next equally good. The 
very men who had planted 500 have increased 
1,000, and some of them have doubled that 
tenfold; and yet the market is now better 
than it ever was before for all the choice va¬ 
rieties of the product of orchard, vineyard, 
or garden. The market is not yet glutted, 
nor can it be while millions of mouths con¬ 
tinually water for the luscious fruits which 
contrast so advantageously with the sour 
crabs, “ five to the pint,” which filled the 
market twenty years ago. The market can 
not be glutted with such fruit as the New¬ 
town pippins, Roxbury russets, Rhode-Island 
greenings, Baldwins, Bellefleur, Swaar, Do- 
mine, and a great variety of other excellent 
winter keeping apples; while the luxury- 
loving mouths of old England are within two 
weeks (we have done counting by miles,) of 
the fruit bearing hills of New-England. Nay, 
not only New-England and New-York, but 
the ever-bearing trees of the rich plains of 
that once far away western wild, known in 
our boyhood as New-Connecticut. But still 
the market is not glutted, nor will it be, 
though all Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, 
and Wisconsin, shall pour in their golden 
treasures of golden pippins, from their un¬ 
bounded plains of the richest fruit-growing 
land the world ever saw, while that same 
world, full of people posess the taste they 
now do for choice, delicious fruits. 
Our advice, therefore, is, as it has always 
been, to every man who owns an acre ol 
land—plant trees. Don’t be afraid of over¬ 
stocking the market with any kind of fruit, 
except such as your father used to grow, and 
some of you still perpetuate : because the 
refined and improved tastes of the world de 
mand, and will have, if it is procurable, the 
best that can be grown .—Oswego Journal 
The worst load is a heavy heart. The 
worst enemy is sin ; and the worst evil is 
the anger of God. The best book is the 
Bible ; the best home is heaven, and the very 
best news that ever came into the world is 
that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. 
