CORRESPONDENCE. LETTERS FROM FRANCE. 143 wormy, and to be suffering more from the not time enough to write much. I now rot, than a full and abundant one. send an article and picture on the subject of Saint Catharine plum, and the outline and description of three choice pears. I also sent some articles to the Pomological Congress at Philadelphia, on the Mahonia, Fertile Currant, Cherry Currant, True Service Tree, etc. "We have few apples here, and those few rotting. Same last year. What is the cause of this premature decay? Injury from frost? or weakness in vital powers of the bud producing them, being the last bloom? In low situations, many apple-trees were killed by last winter, and in all situations many peach-trees. Some kinds of grafted apples proved more hardy than others; but seedlings more so than the grafted. Hope to see you at our State Fair. Respectfully, yours, etc. LEWIS BOLLMAN." Pear Blight-Queries. A CORRESPONDENT asks for a list of pears and apples that have been observed to be most obnoxious to the Fire Blight. Also, whether the disease is infectious. I have endeavored to procure the desired information by conversation with many persons, and have a list commenced; but desire all readers of this work to favor me with any reliable observations they may have made or collected, so that the whole may be incorporated and presented to the public. I should be very happy to make your acquaintance; and if I revisit your country, shall certainly pay you my visit. I I also send you my supplementary Catalogue for 1852. I am, very respectfully, yours, ANDRE LEROY, Desportes. ANGERS, (France,) September 24th, 1852. The outlines and description referred to above are in process of preparation for the The blocks will be cut in time press. for the next number of the Review.—ED. Extracts from a letter of M. Tougard, President of the Central Horticultural Society of Seine-Inferieure, etc., Rouen, France. [AFTER Speaking in the most highly complimentary manner of the Western Horticultural Review, and the advancement we are making in the delightful pursuit of horticulture, he adds:] Our society has noticed your articles with There appears to be some reason to sus-the greatest interest, and has enjoyed a pect infection, but the fact is not by any genuine pleasure in listening to their trans means established. Letters from France. MR. J. A. WARDER, at Cincinnati :-I beg you to excuse me if I have not sooner answered your very honored letter of May 15th. But a long journey and much business has prevented my earlier attention thereto. I am happy to have a moment today. I have the greatest pleasure in furnishing some articles on horticultural subjects for your very excellent journal. But I have lations. Placed in the center of the United States, your Review informs us of many new and curious things about which we wish to hear, and which can not fail to be useful to all concerned in horticultural science. This national correspondence and interchange of ideas enables us to acquire a more perfect knowledge of our art. I congratulate you upon your work. If I can be of any service to you in France, you have but to command my services. We have had a terrible spring, with continual rains and late frosts, so that we have no fruit. The pears and peaches have commended to yourself and to your friends. failed. We have some plums. The sum- In sending an order, if the bill is large, mer was very hot and dry, so that we have only ten per cent. of the amount is demanda splendid harvest. Grass, rye, and oats ed, which should be sent in the shape of a are very fine. Potatos much affected still draft on a Paris banker. with the disease. Yours, etc., I send you the Bulletin of our Society, and catalogues of my fruit trees, which I commend to your attention, as among my lists you will find all the newest and best varieties of trees, which are confidently re- to the nurserymen.-Ed. The President, TOUGARD. The Bulletin is noticed on another page; but the Catalogues have not been received, or they should have been noted and shown METEOROLOGICAL TABLE. CINCINNATI, OCTOBER, 1852. do. ... •35 clear clear do. do. : RAIN •15 *30 '05 : : : : 1 Calm, light S. 2 Calm, light S. 3 Calm, light S. 4 Calm, light E. 5 Light SW. 6 Calm, light SW., brisk SW. 7 Light SW., brisk S. 8 Light SW., brisk SW. 9 Light SW., brisk S., light S. 10 Light W. and NW. 11 Calm, light SE., light SW. 12 Calm, light NW. 13 Light E. and N., calm. 14 Calm, light SE., and SW. and W. 15 Light NW. and W. 16 Light W. 17 Light SE. and SW. 18 Calm, hazy, light S., brisk SW. 20 Calm, light NE. and SE., calm. 29 64 69 rain variable cloudy. 15 do. do. October, 1851, 30 63 68 Variable-sun visible, rain,clear do. 31 54 57 cloudy... do. Clear days in the month. Cloudy-sun not visible, do. do. do. do. 1849, Inches, 2.75 do. 1848, do. 1847, do. 1846, do. 1845, .00 Mean temperature of the above 8 months, Lowest temp., 38. Highest temp., 86. Range, 48. 31 Mean of the min., 57 07. Mean of the max., 70-07. REMARKS. This is the warmest October that I have recorded in fifteen years, and is 60.83 above the mean temperature of this month for the last eight years. October, 1841, was of a mean temperature of 470.50, being the cold est October I have ever recorded. A remarkably E. F. PETICOLAS, SC. COUNTY WATERFORD, IRELAND. RESIDENCE OF JOSEPH MALCOMSON. TINSLEY & SON, Arch'ts. ANOTHER year has revolved upon the and at Rock Island; the various state asceaselessly turning axis of restless time-sociations from Maine to Iowa, and from and we are again arrived at a point whence Canada to Georgia, as well as the hundreds to take a position, be it only on the wings of of county and town gatherings, have abunTime, and look forward into the dim future, if perchance an encouraging ray of hope will but illume the prospect of our pathway in that direction. But, as we may ever learn of the future by scanning the past, which in its flight failed not to make its mark upon our memories, let us look back to trace the events of the past year, whence we may draw instruction. The Horticultural and Pomological, as well as all the other departments of the great congeries of agricultural interests, have reason to be thankful for an increasingly awakened interest in their success, whether we consider our whole continent as an empire, the several distinct states, or the counties and minor subdivisions and societies. The National meetings in Washington last June, at Philadelphia in September, and the American Institute in October; the district meetings in the North-west, at Dixon dantly indicated by their convocation, as well as in their results, that the people of these United States begin to realize that their industrial occupations and the persons who are engaged therein, are really a worthy element in the success of all great national movements, and that they, deserving, should be awarded a due share of the attention of every government. Now, I prithee, do not start astonished, my timid and domestic gardener friend, who hath never looked beyond thy own gar-. den gate, within the precincts of which thou hast grown selfish and abstracted. Nor thou, who brushest the sweat from thy brow, when restricted to the labors conducted within the narrow confines of thy own little farm domain, working as vigorously as a vociferous lawyer or spe pleader, when engaged in the august presence of a common village magistrate, en |