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heretofore given. Both stock and seed seemed to indicate a, maturity 

 so perfect as to warrant belief in its ready domestication with us. 

 And all this is not a tithe of the useful, the beautiful, and the curioua 

 that everywhere around met our sight. 



There were three specimens of Art done in crayon, by Miss A. E. 

 Barnes, 5th. Street, Cin : which received the mostly hearty encomi- 

 ums of all visitors. They were certainly executed with wonderful 

 truthfulness of outline and justness of expression. 



Friday Evening. 



Menter's fine cornet Band is discoursing most eloquent music with- 

 in the pavilion, crowds are thronging the entrance, gas-light, by sof- 

 tening outlines, harmonizing colors, and blending all beauties, has trans- 

 formed the interior into' a fairy palace : Aladdin's magic lamp ne'er 

 wrought a change so rare as this by gas-light. Prof. Warder, 

 the distinguished savant and horticulturist of the West, is to deliver 

 an address. At 8 o'clock a call to order was made by Secretary Gra- 

 ham, and Prof. Warder was introduced to a large and brilliant au- 

 dience. His subject had been indicated to him by a wish of the 

 Society — "A Beview of the Progress of Horticulture among us." 

 And although we made note of the learned speaker's address, we nev- 

 ertheless know that no notes could do justice to the agreeable style 

 and tenor of thought which characterized the effort. The speaker 

 paid well-turned and well-deserved compliments to several who had 

 been pioneers of our Horticulture, among whom were named, " Mother 

 Arbegest," N. Longworth, Silas Wharton, and Gabriel Sleath. The 

 address was well conceived, well written, well delivered, and well 

 received. 



Altogether, this Annual Exhibition is to be regarded as a triumph 

 most creditable to the Society, and especially an honor to those most 

 active "in behalf of its arrangement and management. 



Below we give the correct List of Premiums, from which may be 

 gathered that the whole amount of premiums and gratuities awarded 

 is $566. That from this 



Wm. Heaver, Ree'd in premiums and gratuities, $110. 

 John Sayres, " " " 43. 



Kelley & Co, " « " 41. 



Joseph Cook, " " " 36. 



T. Knott, " " « 20. 



