Thus far for the present. Our society commenced under so favorable auspices, we hope and anticipate it is destined to increase in strength and utility, until it becomes an institution, as firmly established as old Beacon Hill, that with silent grandeur overlooks our beautiful bay.

The officers of the society for the current year are: President, H. W. Sar-geant, Esq.; Vice Presidents, O. S. Hathaway, Robert Sterling; Treasurer, Alfred Post; Recording Secretary, Eugene W. Gray; Corresponding Secretary, J. C. Rennison; Executive Committee, Daniel Smith, J. H. H. Chapman, Charles Dubois, W. D. Barnes, Enoch Carter, Daniel T. Weed, J. F. Van Vort, Henry Cornell, J. M. Barrett, T. H. Roe. Truly yours, Newburgh, March 17,1862. D. Smith.

[We can hardly say that we were aware that you had a Horticultural Society in your town, but we are much pleased to be assured of the fact. Any thing that we can do for your Society, we shall do most gladly. Do not let any thing interrupt your yearly exhibitions; least of all this mad rebellion, which horticulture can do its share in putting down by growing a plentiful crop of hemp. You should also have monthly exhibitions; and above all, conversational meetings, especially during the winter months. Newburgh is rich in material for forming a Horticultural Society which shall be preeminently useful. You have good officers, for we recognize nearly all of them as readers of the Horticulturist. In your President, you have a public spirited gentleman who will not let the Society die on his hands. Having thus all the elements of success, you have only to unite in a resolution that you will succeed. Our good wishes you have abundantly - Ed].

Mr. Editor : - Please cause to be inserted in the next number a select list of Dahlias, 25 or 50; the best, in your opinion, and oblige a subscriber.

Sudbury, Vt. J. M. K.

[In making out this list, we do not hesitate a moment in placing on it Mr. Richardson's seedlings. Among those named below will also be found some of the best old varieties, and some very fine ones of recent introduction, as follows : Emma Cheney, Mrs. Richardson, J. W. Degrauw, Carrie Emmons, Jeannie Tom-kins, Debbie de Gray, Mary Greene, Triomphe de Roubaix, Dr. Duval, Sir H. Havelock, Lady Popham, Grand Duke, Mrs. Edwards, Madame Zahler, Prince Albert, King of Yellows, Imperatrice Eugenie, Lady Paxton, Empress, Miss Caroline, Pre-eminent, Anne Boyleyn, Lollipop, Sir Colin Campbell, Sir Joseph Paxton. - ED].

Dear Sir : - Will you oblige one of your readers by stating whether the New York Horticultural Society is now in existence, and if so, has it kept up its organization without interruption since it was instituted in 1818?

[The New York Horticultural Society is still in existence, though for the past three years it has done little of public interest. We can hardly say that it has kept up its organization uninterruptedly since 1818; certainly not an active organization. Properly managed, it might at this moment be one of the most useful institutions in the country. If it will be of any service to you, we can give you its years of activity, as well as those of its inactivity. - Ed].

Mr. Editor, - Please ask Mr. Barrett, of Canterbury, what plums he cultivates so successfully for market, and if he does nothing to kill the bugs except by the salt spread on the ground. I had given up trying to get a good crop of plums, except by Ellwanger and Barry's method of jarring the trees and killing them. I have planted plum trees in my poultry yard, hoping to be relieved of the trouble of killing them myself; but the plum crop of late has been destroyed entirely by the weather, so that I have learned nothing by my experiment. I procured the Lombard plum, to see if the saying was true, that the curculio would not destroy the fruit; but all plums have failed since then. One more question: Does the rosebug destroy the grape in your region, and how do you keep them off when they swarm, as they will once in ten or twelve years? Last year they were a pest. My grape vines, except those trellised on some building, were covered with them, the fruit entirely eaten up, and the leaves so eaten as to look brown. I had been told that rosebugs would not eat grapes, it was a mistake, etc; so, as I was unusually occupied with sickness in my family and other matters, I concluded to risk it, and, of course, lost my fruit.

What is the remedy? A friend of mine in Windsor, Connecticut, saved his grapes by shaking them off into a pan of water, three times a day for three weeks. But that is a tedious remedy, certainly, though I suppose it paid him. The last general swarming of the troublesome pest, some dozen years ago, an amateur fruit grower of Southwick, Massachusetts, laid his vines on the ground till the cloud of insects passed over, and then tied them up again. I suppose we shall be troubled with them another year or two, when they will pass by for a time. I have seen no notice of them in the journals, and wonder if other parts of the country are visited thus. E. A. Holcomb, Granby, Conn.

[Will Mr. Barrett please supply the list called for 1 The rosebug does destroy the grape in our region, at least as far as we permit it If persistently killed they will, in a few years, become so lessened in numbers as to give comparatively little annoyance. Last year they abounded in nearly all localities. The best remedy is to knock them into a basin of water; it is not so very tedious as would seem. A slight tap on the vine will cause them to fall; but the basin must be held within a foot or so of them; for after fulling a distance they generally take to the wing. Your friend was doubly paid for all his trouble. If all would unite in a measure of this kind, the rosebug would soon cease to be an annoyance. - Ed].