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what perfection the Rhododendrons are brought here. Many of them, 

 I am told, are more than forty years old, and, instead of being merely 

 flowering shrubs, are really trees covered with most brilliant bloom. 

 On one tree alone there were upward of two thousand flowers just 

 budding out, and every variety of color indigenous to the plant are 

 here shown. 



The plants are planted in the ground in raised beds, with turf bor- 

 ders. The tent under which they are, is three hundred and thirty 

 yards in leogth and about eighty in width. The v*^hole garden was 

 planned by Messrs. Waterer & Godfrey, of Knop Hill. The display 

 of Azaleas is also fine, and their specimens of beautiful firs are uu- 

 equaled. I hope ere long we shall be able to contend with them for 

 supremacy. There is not so much difference between our horticultural 

 exhibitions as there is difference in the ages of the countries. 



The Strawberry crop is very fine this year, and Gooseberries are very 

 abundant." 



The President of the Society notified the meeting that the Council 

 had engaged the convenient and spacious lot on Vine street for the 

 approaching fall exhibition, and asked the attention of the members 

 to the liberal appropriations made in the shape of premiums for orna- 

 mental designs, and hoped to see a lively competition in that interest- 

 ing department of the display. 



Every facility will be afforded by the Committee of Arrangements 

 for the best disposition of every article exhibited. Adjourned. 



August 23. — The Committee appointed at last meeting to report 

 upon the new Seedling grape, presented the following: 



NEW SEEDLING GRAPE. 



To the Cincinnati Horticultural Society: 



The Committee to whom the subject was referred, present the follow- 

 ing report : 



This grape was produced by Mr. Sebastian Rintz, from the seed of 

 the Catawba, planted six years ago in his garden. In wood, leaf and 

 habit, it has the appearance of the Catawba, with a resemblance to the 

 Fox grape, which is doubtless a parent of the Catawba. It has the 

 same vigorous growth of these varieties. This is the first season of 

 fruiting, and the Committee were surprised to find so large a product 

 as eleven bunches on the vine. The grapes are now nearly ripe — color, 

 dark purple — will be almost black when fully ripe, which may be in 

 ten days. The branches are of medium size, and conipact — the berries 



