A resolution authorizing the committee for establishing the names of fruits, to procure model fruits, was adopted. A package of seeds obtained at the World's Fair, was presented by Thomas Fisher, and the thanks of the society was ordered for the gift, and seeds referred to the committee for distribution. A member gave notice that at the next meet. ing he would move for the appointment of a committee to examine and report upon the condition of the Green-houses of the city and vicinity. The President appointed the standing com. mittees for the year. On motion adjourned. THOMAS P. JAMES, Rec. Sec'y. BUFFALO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.-The an nual meeting was held January 6th, Vice President Bryant presiding. A communication was received from the President, B. Hodge, declining a re-election, and the following officers and committees were elected for the ensuing year: President-ABNER BRYANT. Vice-Presidents-1st. Charles Taintor. 2d. Warren Granger. Treasurer-Austin A. Howard. Cor. Secretary-William R. Coppock. Rec. Secretary-John B. Eaton. Committee on Fruits and Fruit Trees. Benj. Hodge, Chas. Taintor, Geo. F. Pratt, Jos. G. Masten, Warren Granger. Committee on Flowers and Flowering Plants. -Wm. R. Coppock, Jas. W. Brown, Isaac F. Bryant, Elijah Ford, A. Mason. Committee on Vegetables-Jason Sexton, H. W. Rogers, Jno. R. Prince, Jos. Dart, Orlando Allen. Committee on Entomology and Manures Lewis F. Allen, William Treat, S. T. Haven. Council-Abner Bryant, Charles Taintor, Austin A. Howard, Benj. Hodge, Jason Sexton, Warren Granger, John B. Eaton, William R. Coppock, Lewis F. Allen. The Society will hold its annual exhibition on the 14th and 15th of September, and the semi-annual, on the 22dand 23d of June. JNO. B. EATON, Rec. Secretary. CINCINNATI HORT. SOCIETY.-This Association held its annual election on the first Saturday in the year, when the reports of the finan cial officers were rendered, and ordered to be filed. The President made a touching valedictory, and then stated that the polls were about to be opened; appointed as tellers, M. Kelly, and J. Gilmore. On counting the ballots, the following persons were declared duly elected: President-STEPHEN MOSHER. Vice-Presidents-N. B. Shaler, W. S. Hatch, Jacob Hoffner. Treasurer-William Stoms. Recording and Corresponding Secretary-J. A. Warder. Council-M. McWilliams, S. M. Carter, Jno. G. Anthony, S. S. Jackson, T. H. Yeatman, Wm. Orange, M. Kelly. The polls were then opened for the election of other officers, as directed by the constitution, on a separate ticket. Flower Committee-William Heaver, Jno. McFadden, I. C. Ferris, S. S. Jackson, Thos. Knott. Fruit Committee-T. V. Peticolas, William Orange, S. M. Carter, M. McWilliams, D. McAvoy. Vegetable Committee A. Worthington, Jacob Hoffner, Anthony Pfeiffer, Patrick Considine, R. B. Davies. Wine Committee-J. P. Foote, J. Brace, S. Robert, L. Rehfuss, Geo. Grahami. Financial Secretary-Henry Ives. Answers to Correspondents. Books.-R. J. B., (Rushville, O.) The best work on the Trees of America published in this country, is MICHAUX's (advertised in this Journal lately.) The best original work written in the United States-though it applies only to the northern species, is Emerson's Report on the Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts. You will find a description of all the most ornamental trees, both European and American, in our work on Landscape Gardening. Brown's work has never been completed, only the first volume having appeared. MANURES.-A. W., (Galesburg, Ill.) In heavy soils, coal ashes is valuable for all fruit trees. It is specially adapted to the Cherry. In light soils, we would use it chiefly for the Cherry and Peach. Sawdust half-decayed, has some little value as manure, but its value would be much increased by mixing it with barn-yard manure, and fermenting all together. B. Pell. Your lawn, which has run down, would be more benefitted by covering it immediately with halfrotten stable manure, allowing it to lie evenly spread all over it for three weeks, and then rak ing off all but the finer parts, than by any other top dressing whatever. Guano is an excellent top dressing for a lawn if applied in the autumn, but if applied in the spring, though it benefits the grass greatly at first, it often causes it to burn up more rapidly in midsummer. If your lawn lies low, or has dampness enough in the soil to prevent the latter, then, of course, this does not apply. STOCKS. A Nurseryman, (Bangor.) Graft. ing pears on apple stocks has been abandoned by all good growers, because the union is not permanent, and the tree is short-lived. The plum tree makes a more enduring stock for the peach at the north, or in heavy soils, than the peach itself, and is less liable to disease and insects. A. W., (Galesburg.) The Angers Quince is chiefly prepared as a stock for dwarf pears, because it takes the bud easily, and grows more vigorously than the common quince. The latter answers very well when once budded. EVERGREENS.-G. M. T., (Hickory Park, Va.) To make your cedar grow equally fast with the other one, you must remove the soil at the extremity of the roots, and fill it with richer soil, mixed with leached ashes. Amos Dean. The Irish Yew is hardy about New-York-and does best in a northern, shaded exposure. There is no ornamental evergreen, on the whole so generally satisfactory, so hardy in all parts of the country, and so well adapted to all soils, as the Norway Spruce. DEEP TREES.-A Michigan Subscriber. If your apple trees which you are forced to bury a foot deeper than they stood, by raising the ground, are trees readily moved by all means lift them, and bring the roots as near the surface as before, as this covering them with so much earth is often fatal. If they cannot be lifted, then cover the roots for a very large space, with small stones, spreading carth over the top. pin, Monmouth Pippin, Yellow Bellfleur, Rhode Island Greening, Melon, Ladies' Sweeting, Roxbury Russet, Baldwin. Peaches.-George IV, Early York, Old Mixon Free, Cooledge's Favorite, Late Red Rareripe, Snow, Morris White, Heath Cling. Cherries.-Black Tartarian, May Duke, Elton, Downer's Late, Graffion. Apri cots.-Breda. Large Early, Moorpark. J. J. Delchamps, (Bel Espoir, Ala.) We recommend for the extreme south with some diffidence-but think the following varieties most valuable there. Apples.-Maiden's Blush, Early Harvest, White Bellfleur, Gravenstein, Bevan, Golden Russet, Horse Apple, Holland Pippin, Yellow Bellfleur, Porter, Grindstone, Dutch Mignonne, Pryor's Red. Pears.-Bartlett, Dearborn's Seedling, Surpass Virgalieu, Golden Beurre of Bilboa, Flemish Beauty, Heathcot, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Petre, Seckel, Winter Bonchretien, St. Germain, Lawrence, Duchess of Angouleme. Fruit trees raised from cuttings are not so good as those grafted on good stocks-they are less vigorous. Quince stocks are worth about $12 a thousand in northern nurseries. GREEN-HOUSE PLANTS. A Lady, (Richmond, Va.) You will find in Buist's Select Catalogue of "Rare and Popular Green-house and Hot-house Plants," both the list and the information you require. (Address R. Buist, nurseryman, Phila., with 2 postage stamps enclosed.) This catalogne, just published, contains brief descriptions and hints for the culti vation of any genus of plants enumerated. We ARBORETUMS.-A. S., (New-York.) recommend you to Messrs. PARSONS & Co., Flushing, Long-Island, to complete your list of rare trees. They have paid much attention lately, to importing rare trees for arboretums, and other choice collections. EXOTICS.-B., (New-York.)-The Clerodendrons and Gardenias you name, may be had of PARSONS & Co. Cupressus Lambertiana has not proved hardy about New-York. Hedera Regneriana is a new variety of Irish Ivy, with large foliage and rapid growth. May be had at several of the leading nurseries. On the Improvement of Vegetable Rares. NOTWITHSTANDING all the drawbacks of the violent extremes of climate, the United States, and especially all that belt of country lying between the Mohawk and the James rivers, is probably as good a fruit country as can be found in the world. Whilst every American, travelling in the north of Europe, observes that very choice fruit, grown at great cost, and with the utmost care, is more certainly to be found in the gardens of the wealthy, than with us, he also notices that the broad-cast production of tolerably good fruit in orchards and gardens, is almost nothing in Europe, when compared to what is seen in America. As we have already stated, one-fourth of the skill and care expended on fruit culture in the north of Europe, bestowed in America, would absolutely load every table with the finest fruits of temperate cli mates. As yet, however, we have not made any progress beyond common orchard culture. In the majority of cases, the orchard is planted, cultivated two or three years with the plough, pruned badly three or four times, and then left to itself. It is very true, that in the fruit gardens, which begin to surround some of our older cities, the well prepared soil, careful selection of varieties, judicious culture and pruning, have begun to awaken in the minds of the old fashioned cultivators a sense of astonishment as to the size and perfection to which certain fruits can be brought, which begins to react on the country at large. Little by little, the orchardists are beginning to be aware that it is better to plant fifty trees carefully, in well prepared soil, than to stick in five hundred, by thrusting the roots in narrow holes, to struggle out an imperfect existence; little by little, the horticultural shows and the markets, have proved that while fruit trees of the best standard sorts, cost no more than those of indifferent quality--the fruit they bear is worth ten times as much; and thus by degrees, the indifferent orchards are being renovated by grafting, manuring, or altogether displaced by new ones of superior quality. 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