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ALBANY AND RENSSEDAER HORT. SOCIETY. 



great interest, and are certainly advancing the Hor- 

 ticultural prospects of this part of the State. Utica 

 Observer. .... 



Exhibition of the Horticultural Society of 

 Montreal. — The lirst annual exhibition of this 

 Society took place on the 7th of September. The 

 Montreal Gazette speaks of it as a " splendid ex- 

 hibition, which in some points would have been cred- 

 itable to any of the older established societies of 

 either England or America." This is certainly 

 gratilying information to receive in regard to the 

 condition of Horticulture in a region wiiich many 



look upon as too cold and ungenial for the success- 

 ful culture of I'ruils. Premiums were awarded for 

 Plums, Peaches, Pears, Grapes, growji botii under 

 glass and in open culture ; Melons of the Minorca, 

 Cantaloupe, and otlier varieties; also for many kinds 

 of flowers, bouquets, and many floral designs. 

 There appears to have been an excellent show of 

 vegetables, including nearly all of the usual culi- 

 nary kinds, as well as the new and rarer sorts. 

 Premiums were also given on birds, including 

 pigeons, canaries, &,c., of which there was a large 

 display. 



ALBANY AND RENSSELAER HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The first annual exhibition of this Society took place on the 

 lull of iSeptejiiber, at the State Geological Rooms, Slate- 

 slreel.Albaiiy, and was every thnig that its most ardent friends 

 could wish. 



It is not yet six months since the Society was formed ; and 

 of course no opportuniiy has been afforded for nicreasiiig 

 the varieties, or extending the culiivation of the various ar- 

 ticles exhibited, and yet the show of fruit, flowers, and vege- 

 tables, astonished and delighted every beholder. A more 

 beaulilul, a more extensive horticultural exhibition has sel- 

 dom or ever been witnessed in this Stale. 



The undersigned congralulales the friends and supporters 

 of the Suciety upon Ihe entire success of this their first annual 

 exhibition ; and trusts, that this encouraging and satisfactory 

 result will induce them to farther and continued exertions, 

 for the prosperity and welfare of the Soceiy. 



Joel Katubone, President. 



FRUIT.S. — The committee on Fruits report that there were 

 exhibited by R. H. Vail of Ida Farm, Troy, eleven varieties of 

 Apple!', viz., Holland Pippin, Ea.ly Tart Bough, Heart's Pip- 

 pin Jersey Sweeting, Early Sweet Bough, Spitzenbergh, R. 

 I. Greening, Dominie, Vandervere, Swaar, and one variety 

 not named. Three varieties of Pears— Barllett, Beurre Rails, 

 and CaliUac. Seven varieties of Plutns — Coe's Golden Drop, 

 p'lushing Gage, Reine Claude, Yellow Egg, Imperial Gage, 

 Yellow Gage, and a seedhiig of a fair cliaracier. One var- 

 iety of Peach — Red Magdalen Three varieties of Grapes — 

 Isabella, Wiune, and a native blue variety 



By D Benson of Albany : Pears — Beurre Diel. Plums — 

 Washington Bolmar, Royal Purple and Nectarine ; and a 

 very fine seedling Peach. 



By Wm Newcomb : Watennelons — three varieties. Musk 

 melons — three varieties 



Bi E. P. Prentice, Mount Hope, Albany: Peaches —very 

 beautiful specimens of Bergen Yellow. Musk and Water 

 Melons— one, variety of each. 



By John Gott, Albany : Peaches — a limb bearing thirty beau- 

 tiful peaches not named. Plums — Green Gage, and a .seed- 

 Ihig. 



By .Stephen E. Warren, Troy : Seven varieties of Peaches 

 — Noblesse, Royal George, Patroon, Sweeiwaler, Lemon 

 Cling, Red Magdalen, and a seedling. Three varieties of 

 Nectarines— Pcrkim' Seedling, Red Roman, and one not la- 

 belled 



By Bradford R. Wood, Albany : Five varieties of Plums — 

 Red Magnum Bonum, Sweet Gage. Green Gage, Washing- 

 ton, and Bolmar. Peaches — beautiful Rareripe. 



By Wm. Buswell, Troy : Peac/iei— Coolidge's Favorite. 

 Plums — Washington, and a Seedling 



By D. B. Kirtland : Apples — Hawthornden. Musk Melons— 

 Netted. 



By. J. Mc D. McTntyre, Albany : Plutns— Bgg. Apples — 

 one variety not named 



By Dr. Jas McNaughton, Albany : PeacAes— Rareripe and 

 Morris White, very fine. 



By V. P. Douw, Greenbush : Pears— Beurre Diel. Plums 

 — Royal Blue, a seedling Green, and a seedling Yellow 

 Grapes — Mdler's Burgundy. Water Melons — Black Spanish, 

 Joppa, Rio Janeiro and Mountain Spanish. Musk 3Ielons — 

 Netted. 



By Joel Rathbone, Kenwood, Albany connty : Plutns — 



Green Gage, and Blue Gage. Peaches— Royal George, 

 ."Sweetwater and Morris While. Pears — Seckel. Grapes — 

 Calawba and Isabella. Nectarines — Newington. Watet Me- 

 lons — Ri'Ck Nutmeg, and Large Long Island. 



By Isaac Delusion, Albany : Twenty-seven varieties of 

 Plums — Bleecker Gage, Yellow Gage, Denision's Superb, 

 Reine Claude, Columbia, Albany Beauty, Eleanor, Yellow 

 Egg, Lawrence's Favorite, Chancellor Gage, Deniston's Red, 

 Bleecker's Red. Blue Gage, Buel's Favcirite, Green Gage, 

 Washington Bolmar, Mirabelle, and ten seedlings not named. 



By Amos Briggs, ScaghticoUe, Rensselaer counly : Six- 

 leeii varieties of Plums — Necianiie, ('range, Orleans, Prince's 

 Yellow Gage, Reine Claude, Coe's Golden Drop, Blue Gage, 

 French Red Gage, Imperial Gage, Wasliinglon Bolmar, Yel- 

 low Gage, Purple Magnum Bonum, and four seedlings of fine 

 appearance, but not ol' first quality. Pears — Bartletl, Seckel, 

 and one vdriety not named. Apples — one variety not labelled. 



By Jas. Wilson, Albany: Six varieties of Ptars — Althorpe 

 Crassanne, Doyenne Gris. Do>einie Whiie, Beurre Capiau- 

 mont, Henry tlie Fourtli and Lewis. Apples — Reiiielte Van 

 Moiis. P/i/ws— Bleecker's Red, St. Cailianne, Wheat and 

 Judson. Currants— May's Victoria. 



By John I ay lor, Albany : Apjiles — two varieties not label- 

 led. Grapes — Sweetwater and French Cluster. 



By James Coales : Plums — Red Magnum Bonum, and 

 Quackenbush. Apples — Alexander. Water Melotis — two va- 

 rieties 



By L Menand : Strawberries — White Alpine. 



By J. K. Paige, Albany : .Sjx varieties of Pears — Seckel, 

 Barilelt, and four varieties not named Peaches — five varie- 

 ties. Grajies — sixteen varieties. Pluttis — tliiiteen varieties. 

 Water Melons — Valparaiso. 



By Dr A March, Albany : Plutns — Very beautiful speci- 

 mens of Red Magnum Bonum and Yellow Egg. 



By Dr. Herman Wendell, Albany : Nineteen varieties of 

 Pears— Duchess d'Aiigouleme, Seckel. Ganseli's Beigamot, 

 Napoleon, Beurre Knox, Muscadine, Easter Beune, Beurre 

 Uiel, Bartletl, Doyenne White, Leon le Clerc of Van Mons, 

 Compte de Lamy, Fulton, Summer St Germain, Chaunion- 

 telle, Duchess de Mars, iind three varieties unnamed. Tweii- 

 ly varieties of Ap/lns — Newtown Pippin. Green, Rambo, 

 Baldwin, Esopus Spiizenbersh, Yellow Newtown Pippin, 

 Male Carle, Lady Apple, Gloria Muiidi or Ox *pple. Graven- 

 slein. Lemon Pippin. Golden Sweet, Fall Pippin, Vandervere, 

 Rhode Island Greening. Hawthornden, Ribston Pippin, Seek- 

 no-further, Siberian Crab, and two varieties not named. 

 Twenty-five varieties of Plutns — Coe's Golden Drop, Coe's 

 Late Red, Yellow Egg, Red Magnum Bonum. White Perdri- 

 gon. Virgin. Peters' Large Yellow, Prune d'Agen, White 

 JVIagnum Bonum, Lombard, or Bleecker's Red, Long Scar- 

 let, Catherine Plum, American Wl eat Plum, Bleecker's 

 Gage, Schuyler's Gage, Washington Bolmar, Yellow Gage, 

 Blue Gage, Nectarine, Reine Claude, Prince's Imperial Gage, 

 Holland Plum, two English varieties, labels lost, and one 

 seedling from the Lombard, resembling that variety. Grapes 

 — Golden Chasselas, Bland's Virginia and Isabella. Necta- 

 rines — Red Roman. Six varieties of Peaches — Early Anne, 

 Ear y Tillotson. Emperor of Russia, and three seedlings. 

 Water Melons — Black Spanish and Valparaiso. 3Iusk Melons 

 — Beechwood, Sweet Ispahan, Christiana, Green Citron, and 

 early yellow Canteloup. 



By J. Towasend, Albany : Apples — five varieties not named. 



