HORTICULTURAL; 
live miles from buffalo, eighteen from Niagara River, 
and ten from Luke Ontario, latitude forty-three. If 
any person north of latitude forty-two sent grapes 
to market last Autumn, in quantity, before the 4th 
of September, I hope they will report through your 
columns. Fruit Grower. 
Lockport, N. Y., 1868. 
SCALDS AND BURNS. 
On the instant of the accident, plunge the part 
under cold water. This relieves the pain in a sec¬ 
ond, and allows all hands to become composed. If 
The part cannot be kept under water, cover it over 
with dry flour, an inch deep or more. In both cases 
the pain ceases because the air is excluded. In 
many instances nothing more will be needed after 
the flour; simply let it remain until it falls off, 
when a new skin will bo found under. In severer 
cases, while the part is under water, simmer a leek 
or two In an earthen vessel, with half their bulk of 
hogs lard, until the leeks are soft, then strain 
through a muslin rag. This makes a greenish col¬ 
ored ointment, which, when cool, spread thickly 
on a linen cloth and apply it to the injured part. 
If there arc blisters, let out the water. When the 
part becomes feverish and uncomfortable, renew the 
ointment, and a rapid, painless cure will he the 
result, if the patient, meanwhile, lives exclusively 
on fruits, coarse bread, and other light, loosening 
food.— Dr. Hall ~ ~ 
A copt of the first volume of this w«rk was pre¬ 
sented to the Fruit Growers’ Society of Western 
New York, at its last meeting, and a notice of it may 
be of interest not only to the members of that So¬ 
ciety but to fruit growers in general. 
The author is well known, by reputation at least, 
to most American nurserymen as one of the oldest, 
most intelligent and widely-known nurserymen in 
France, and his nurseries are regarded as the largest 
in Europe. His father and grandfather were nurse¬ 
rymen, and he inserts his grandfather’s catalogue of 
pears cultivated at Angers in 1790. The propagation 
and eultnre of fruit trees has long been a chief fea¬ 
ture in his nurseries, and the collection of bearing 
trees, numbering some 3,000 varieties, is among the 
largest in Europe. With all his facilities he ought 
to make a valuable book, and we think he has suc¬ 
ceeded. He 6ays he cherished the project for over 
thirty years. 
The first volume only has yet appeared. It con¬ 
tains 614 pages. describes 3S9 varieties of pears, and 
has reached only to the end of the letter C, the 
fruits being described in alphabetical order. The 
HORTICULTURAL NOTES 
Forcing Vines.—R. C B. writes as from East Tenee- 
see, inquiring for information about forcing melons, &c., 
in the hill. Common cotlon cloth, oiled with boiled 
linseed oil. applied with a brush, and stretched on frames 
alter it is dry, is a very fair substitute for glass to use in 
starting melons. Oiled paper will also answer An¬ 
other way is to dig a hole, a foot or so deep and two 
wide, and pack it solid with pure horse manure to within 
three or four inches ol the top. Fill these three or four 
inches with good mold. Set a six inch flower pot on the 
center ol the hill thus formed, and puck dirt solidly 
around it until it is live or six inches high, sloping the 
dirt outward and downward from the pot. Withdraw the 
pot carefully, and plant seeds in the bottom of the hole. 
Cover with a single pane of glass. When the vines 
roach the glass it should be raised a little to air them 
gradually, and when it is finally removed draw some dirt 
to the stalks of the vines. If bugs molest, use frames 
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I Whitewash as a Protection to Trees.— A corres¬ 
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ican reader will detect. His rule in adopting the 
name has been, he says, to choose “that most gen¬ 
erally known and used.’’ Of nearly 400 varieties 
described in this volume 212 are classed as first rate, 
123 as second, and the balance as third. 
The question might be asked, why not have omit¬ 
ted these third class fruits V We think the book 
would have lost nothing by their omission ; a simple 
list of them might have been given as superceded 
or rejected. On this point the author says he has 
described all in his own collection and all he could 
find still in cultivation—even those of inferior qual¬ 
ity, because many fruits, worthless in one locality 
are valuable in others, It is for the same reason 
nurserymen in this country are required to maintain 
such large catalogues. 
Mr. Leroy condemns the prevalent use of pre¬ 
fixes to names. For instance, in pears, Bergamot, 
BcEi, Beurre, Dclices, Doyenne, Fondante, &e.; but 
he has not ventured to reject them. Our use of the 
word Pippin in apples, Gage in plums, Meiocoton 
in peaches, is of the same superfluous character and 
ought to be abandoned. 
The introduction to this volume is quite interest¬ 
ing. Mr. Leroy says the first French pomological 
work, properly speaking, was that of Merlet, pub¬ 
lished in 1(507 — it describes 137 varieties of pears ; 
next, Quin-tinge, in 1690, described 67 pears; next, 
Duoa.mel, in 1768, described 119 pears ; next, Noi¬ 
sette, in 1821, described 238 pears then Poiteau, 
in 1:846, described 107 pears. These works are ail 
known to American pomoiogists—the hist named 
especially, which is really a magnificent work, but 
very expensive and not adapted to popular use. 
Then, turning to the pear in particular, he gives 
lists of varieties cultivated by the Greeks 287 years 
before the Christian era; varieties cultivated by the 
Romans ITS years before Christ, as described bv 
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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES, 
grew than they were originally sold at, and re¬ 
ceived pay for every tree—every one growing; and 
a grape vine in the box bore the same year. 
Trees must have within their organization a sup¬ 
ply of moisture to enable them to grow. In trans¬ 
planting a portion of their moisture is often evapo¬ 
rated, and this must be restored to them, by some 
means, before they will grow, Henctfthe folly that 
is often committed by setting trees in such a con¬ 
dition, in a dry time, and often in a dry soil, with¬ 
out moisture or any chance for a sufficient supply. 
I would sooner think that E. M. JL’s trees failed 
Indiana Hort. Society. 
Sec’y— Seth W. Pearso: 
Treas’r—J. S. Dunlap. 
Cincinnati Hort. Society.— Pres’t — W. P. Anderson. 
Vice-Pros’ts—Wm. Storms, George Graham, Robert Bu¬ 
chanan. dec. Sec'y — L. A. Hine. Cor. Sec’y —C. H. 
Wurdlow. Treas'r—Robert Clarke. 
Ohio Wine Growers' Association.— Pres’t—E. A. Thomp¬ 
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I seedling hardy, until it has first proved itself scTto 
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1 and iu budding or grafting we propagate the nature 
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