prolific and hardy. I have many other kinds in process of cultivation, which have not fruited yet, and I intend procuring all the best kinds, and giving them a fair trial, when I will discard all that are not suitable.

The Golden Chasselas is decidedly the best that I have tried yet. I got it from Prince & Son of Flushing as the White Chasselas, which it is not; it ripens here from the twentieth of August to the first of September, the same time as the Sweetwater, and in its growth, foliage and appearance of the fruit till fully ripe, it is impossible to tell them apart, except that it is even less liable to mildew; but after it gets ripe, it becomes of a more amber color; the great difference, however, is in the flavor, which is quite high, and slightly musky, so much so, that after eating it, the Sweetwater tastes insipid. Having several hundred vines of each of these kinds in bearing, I have been able to test them fully, and find no variation. The kind I got for the White Muscadel, is nearly identical with the White Sweetwater, though it appears to me to be higher flavored, and the berries rather larger.

The Green Swiss, or Fondant Vert, in some seasons, is an exquisite grape; but it is rather liable to mildew. This year, both the bunches and berries are smaller than usual, owing to that cause. It is very sweet and melting, and highly worthy of cultivation; it ripens about the first September.

From about one hundred vines of the Black Cluster, in full bearing and covered with fruit, I did not get a perfect bunch of any size; about half the fruit on each bunoh rotting as they came to maturity, owing to heavy rains, and the closeness of the bunches preventing the fruit from drying. Heretofore, however, the fruit ripened well. As the vines are well established and strong, I intend grafting the greater part of them with the Golden Chasselas and other finer kinds.

I have a large number of seedling vines, hybrids between the different foreign kinds, and the Isabella

and Catawba, which promise well, and will be in bearing next year and the year following. I have also, this fall, saved a quantity of seed from the different kinds planted closely together, with the branches intertwined, from which I expect to get valuable hybrids, which may prove more suitable to our climate than the kinds now in cultivation.

I am perfectly convinced, that all the valuable table grapes, having open or loose bunches, and ri. pening by the twentieth of September, can, by judicious culture, be brought to great perfection in the open air, without the aid of glass or walls; in fact I consider a wall or close board fence, a detriment instead of a benefit, as it is a harbor for all kinds of insects, and prevents a free circulation of air and rain. They succeed best with me planted quincunx, in rows four feet asunder, and the vines four feet apart in the row; so that each vine can be trained separately, leaving room to pass round on all sides.

At the fall pruning, I leave four young shoots rising from the surface of the ground, or as near it as possible, two of which are left four feet long for bearers, and the other two cut down to two eyes each, to form the young wood for the next season. In the spring, after the vines are uncovered, I drive in four stakes, about five feet long, leaving four feet above ground, to each vine, in a line north and south, which is necessary in close cultivation, for the admission of heat and light, to two of which the bearing branches are tied vertically, the other two being for the young shoots, which, as they rise, are trained also vertically. The side shoots from the bearers, are trained at an angle of forty-five degrees, and tied to the other stakes, and stopped about three to four buds beyond the farthest bunch, the vine only occupying a space of three feet wide by four feet in height, as the stakes are set about a foot apart. I am your obt. ser't. James Dougall. Rosebank, near Amherstburg, Canada West.

Exhibition of October 31, 1846.

FRUITS.-From M. P. Wilder, President of the Society, Pears, Beurre d'Angou, Bezi de la Motte, Duchesse d'Angouleme.

From S. Walker, Roxbury, Pears, Duchesse d'Angouleme, (fine) Urbaniste, and others without name.

From F. W. Macondry, a Pippin Apple.

From Geo. Walsh, Charlestown, Pears, Messeur John, Beurre Diel, Bon Chretien Fondante, Urbaniste and others. From Daniel Putnam, Danvers, President's Apple. From O. H. Mathers by Thomas Needham, Grapes, Black Hamburg, Syrian, white Chasselas, white Frontignan, Chasselas Musque, Muscat of Alexandria, Black Portugal, Black Lombardy, Black Frankendall, all fine.

From J. Fisk Allen, Pears, Napoleon, Verte Longue d'Automne, Seckel, Duchesse d'Angouleme, and others for name; Grapes, Black Prince, Zinfindal, Whortly Hall seedling. From J. Dudley by J. Owen, Pears.

A seedling Pear from Salem, was exhibited which the Committee have named the Ropes pear. The specimens tasted! were very good, but the committee wish to see them another season, before giving a decided opinion of their merits. For the Committee, J. FISK ALLEN.

For the committee, JOSEPH BRECK. FRUITS.-From E. Vose, Pears, Duchess d'Angouleme, (very fine.),

From Josiah Lovett, 2d., Pears, Seckel, (fine,) Louise Bonne de Jersey, and Petre.

From S. R. Johnson, Beurre Diel and Dix Pears, (the latter very handsome.)

From S. R. Walker, Pears, Figue, (fine,) and Beurre Diel.

From J. M. Earle, Apples, Winter Spice, (?) Red Bough, (which we think will prove fine) and Patterson Harvey. From M. P. Wilder, Pears, Dix, (fine,) Urbaniste, and Bezi de La Motte.

From Cheever Newhall, Grapes, Syrian, (very fine,) and Black Hamburgh.

From J. Fisk Allen, Pears, Verte Longue d'Autumn. From A. D. Williams and Son, Apples and Pears. From S. D. Partridge. Apples of fine flavor, for a name. From Alexander McLellan, Pears, Urbaniste, Martin Sec, Beurre Diel, Leon Le Clerc, Verte Longue d'Autumn, M. Jean, White Doyenne. (?)

From J. M. Ives, Pears, Bezi de La Motte, Winter Nelis, and Bleeker's Meadow. Apples, Minister. For the Committee,

OTIS JOHNSON.

Exhibition of Nov. 14, 1846. FRUITS-[From Samuel Downer, Jr. Pears, Beurre Diel,

(fine.)

From Otis Johnson, Pears, Duchesse d'Angouleme (fine,) omitted last Saturday.]

From Portland, for a name, by Samuel Walker, Pears, Doyenne Gris (?).

From S. Walker, Pears, Figue (fine,) Winter Nelis, McLaughlin, Beurre Duval, Verte Longue d'Automne, Josephine, (?) Chaumontelle, Figue de Naples, Queen of the Low Countries, Beurre d'Aremberg, Fourcroy.

From J. Fiske Allen, Pears, Chaumontelle, (fine,) Lewis. From Samuel Pond, Pears, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Dix. Quinces, Musk. The specimens of pears and quinces were all fine.

From J. M. Ives, Apples, Aunt Hannah, which the committee pronounced of the first quality, Swaar, Rambo or Romanite.

From Dr. Joshua B. Flint, Louisville, Ky., by Dr. Gould, Apples, Crab, found growing in the forest; the committee on testing pronounced the fruit entirely worthless. From John Washburn, Quinces, Orange or Apple, Musk, Pear, Portugal and a fine specimen without a name. The specimens were all extra in size.

For the Committee,

EBEN WIGHT.

Exhibition of Nov. 21, 1846. FRUITS-From Augustus Aspinwall, Pears, Duchesse d'Angouleme, fine.

From M. P Wilder, Pears, M. le Cure, fine, Beurre d'Aremberg, Beurre Gris d'hiver Noveau; the lutter possesses a high flavor and promises well.

From J. H. Cobb, Pear, Catillac.

From Samuel Walker, Pear, M. le Cure, fine. From Cheever Newhall, Pear, Colmar du Printems, sup posed to be identical with the Urbaniste.

From F. W. Macondry, Pear, introduced as the Soldat Labourer. The specimen tasted was undoubtedly the d`Aremberg.

J. Wilcomb, Flushing, presented specimens of the Lawrence Pear of fine flavor; also a Pear of fair quality for a name. From James Eustis, Apples, Trunnel, and a variety without name; also the Ben Apple; the latter fine.

S. C. Ferry, of Geauga county, Ohio, presented handsome Apples found upon his land when a wilderness; the specimens were of pleasant flavor but dry.

From B. V. French, Apples, Conway, White Seek-no-Farther, and Nonsuch.

From Hovey & Co., Pear, Vicompt de Speilberg.
For the committee.
OTIS JOHNSON.

Exhibition of Dec. 5, 1846. FRUITS-From M. P. Wilder, President, Pears, Chaumontel, fine; Beurre d'Aremberg, Columbia: Apples, three kinds from an unknown source, via Western Railroad-Cathead, very large, a handsome apple of Pearmain flavor, Fall Harvey, extra large.

From William Thomas, Boston, received from Springfield, Ohio, Apples, Sweet Vandevere, good flavor; Holland Pippin, Yellow Bellfleur, Mundine, Ox-eye, red; ditto, white, of a good flavor; R. I. Greening, Gloría Mundi, (weighing 14 lb.,) Virginia Red Streak, a large red apple, (seedling,) Greening, (fine) White Seek-no-Farther, Cannabon Favorite, high flavor; Yellow Newtown Pippin, Boyd's Favorite, (seedling.) Yellow Ox-eye, Black Apple, Winesap, Michael Henry Pippin, Cart-house, French Pippin, Seek-no-Farther, red. The ap ples were raised by Messrs. J. Boyd, J. C. Wood, J. S. Wood, J. R. Miller, and T. S. Wood, Springfield, Ohio. The committee were pleased in having so good an opportunity as the occasion offered to test the flavor, and compare the size with like kinds grown in this vicinity. The specimens were all of

The usual stated meeting of this Society was held on Tuesday evening, December 15, 1846,— The President in the chair.

Owing to the severity of the weather, there was little display on this occasion. Two tables of choice vegetables, and two fine Bouquets, a dish of Passe Colmar Pears, and another of Apples constituted the objects shown. Premiums for the vegetables were awarded to Anthony Felten; for the best bouquet, to Wm. Hall, gardener to Caleb Cope, and for the next best, to James Bisset, gardener to James Dundas: A special premium of one dollar to J. B. Baxter for the Pears, and another of the same amount to Wm. Johns for Apples.

The Library Committee submitted their annual Report, from which it appeared that forty-six volumes had been added during the past year, and that the library contains nearly seven hundred volumes, all on appropriate subjects.

The committee for establishing premiums, reported a schedule for the ensuing year, which was ordered to lie over for consideration.

A communication to the president, from Professor Walter R. Johnson, purporting that he intended to deliver a course of eight lectures on Chemistry as applied to Agriculture and Horticulture, at the Academy of Natural Sciences, commencing January 6th, when on motion

Resolved, That this Society regards the subject of Chemis try as applied to the cultivation and products of the field and garden, and to the uses of the same for economical and mental purposes, as of the highest interest, not only to this Society, but to the whole community who are the consumers and admirers of such products.

Resolved, That the Society has heard with great pleasure the announcement by Professor Johnson, of his intention to deliver a course of lectures on the above important subjects, and that the same be recommended to the favorable consideration of our members.

Resolved, That a committee of five members be appointed for the purpose of obtaining subscribers to the above mentioned course of lectures.

The President appointed Dr. Watson, Percival, Mackensie, Kilvington and James, as said committee.

Mr. Jos. T. Thomas presented a copy of Fremont's Expedition to the Society. On motion ordered that the thanks of the Society be tendered to the donor for the acceptable gift. Members elected, D. B. Kelly, Samuel W. Harding, and John Field. On motion adjourned,

THO. P. JAMES, Recording Secretary.