Discussion at Rochester.

Messrs. Maxwell, Barry, Ellwanger and Graves all agreed in naming the Honey Locust as the best.

Mr. Chas. Downing has seen old hedges of it a complete failure.

Mr. Smith has a Honey Locust hedge about 100 rods long, which has stood sixteen years, and is nearly perfect. Never knew a plant to die from effects of insects. Honey Locust is the only deciduous hedge he would recommend.

Mr. Graves knew a Honey Locust hedge, from fifteen to twenty years old, the most perfect hedge he ever saw.

Dr. Beadle considered it a nuisance, so small a portion of the year in leaf, and if a root was broken would sprout.

Mr. Smith had never known them to sprout. It was agreed that Osage Orange would winter-kill, even when several inches in diameter.

Mr. Patrick Barry has seen very fine hedges of Japan Quince.

Mr. Hooker - Probably only objection, slow growth.

Mr. Downing said the Berberry, as far as tested, was a promising hedge plant, but more time was needed to decide fully.

Dr. Beadle - Mice will not eat it. . Dr. Sylvester had one five or six years old, and was satisfied it would make a good hedge.

The following note on hedges was sent to. the Society by that venerable. and eminent horticulturist, Charles Downing: "I began to cultivate hedges over fifty years ago; have tried the European Thorn, two kinds of native American Thorn, three - thorned Acacia or Honey Locust, Buckthorn, Sheppardia, Osage Orange, American Arbor Vitae and Hemlock, and all failed to make a Hedge suitable for protection against cattle on the public highway. The Osage Orange would answer the purpose effectually, were it not for an occasional extreme cold winter Arbor vitae and Hemlock make beautiful hedges, and would answer for inside or division fences, whiere no cattle were allowed to run. No pains were spared to make the above hedges all they should be, but all failed to make a barrier against cattle." The report is the more praiseworthy, and available for ready reference, in consequence of the utter absence of padding for the sake of show - an objection which attaches to most society publications, particularly those paid for with State or National funds.

Golden-netted Honeysuckle (Lonicera aurea reticulata). Mr. T. T. Lyon, in a letter to the Michigan Farmer, says that where placed in the open air, and in full influence of the sun, failed, but when transplanted to the north side of the house, it succeeded.

We removed it to the north side of the house, placing it, as before, in a light, loamy soil, with porous subsoil. Here it soon recovered, and showed its appreciation of the change by making growths of eight or ten feet during the season, with foliage as rich and healthy as could be desired, constituting it one of the most beautiful and effective plants in our collection, the more especially as the effect continued through the entire growing season.

The foliage seemed unaffected by frosts, retaining its richness and beauty unscathed till time to go into winter quarters, when, although our previous experience satisfied us of its probable hardiness, we thought to make assurance doubly sure, and dropped it upon the ground, throwing over it some garden litter, and leaving it in this condition till the opening of spring, when, on removing the covering, it came out apparently uninjured, and with a portion of the beautifully netted foliage yet unharmed. We replaced it against the wall, where, during the second summer, it made a very vigorous growth, nearly covering a portion of wall about eight by ten feet.

No one who has only been accustomed to see this plant as grown in the greenhouse, with its roots confined to the narrow limits of a pot, can form an adequate idea of the richness and effectiveness of the plant when grown in the open ground, in the manner indicated. No amount of vigor seems to suffice against the influence of direct sunlight, as we observed that a few of the strongest shoots, when exposed to the direct light of the sun tor only an hour or two during the heat of the afternoon, soon showed the scorching effect upon their foliage, It increases rapidly by layers or by cuttings taken in July or August, and planted in ordinary soil in a moist, shaded locality.