editor's table. 



a chance to many of becoming acquainted with rare kinds ; and a bouquet design by Mr. 

 Raabe, of 150 species of grasses, all very neatly named, showed how beautifully so dry a 

 subject as abstract botany can be combined with art by a person of fine taste. 



A display of Monthly Carnations, now getting deservedly popular, as their cultivation 

 becomes understood, was shown, in fine order, by Mr. James Thomas, from Mr. Withams. 



Peiiietual blooming plants should be freely encouraged, and, in this connection, two roses, 

 by Mr. Pentland, of Baltimore, were much admired. One, Beauty of Green Mount, a noisette, 

 with the rich crimson of Souvenir d'Anselme, with more numerously clustered flowers. The 

 other, with the pure white of Aimee Vibert, on the vigorous growth of a Jaune des Prez, 

 also a Noisette, and named Woodland Margaret. Of the numerous collections of roses, a 

 rather new American seedling, Isabella Gray, was the chief attraction. It is the yellowest 

 and sweetest of the Sweet Yellow Tea or Noisette Roses. 



There were several new competitors on the Dahlia list — Grand Duke, lilac ; Sir F. Bathurst, 

 plum ; Summit of Perfection, maroon ; Beauty of the Grove, bronze, with purple tip ; Ring- 

 Leader, plum ; Napalese Chief, crimson, tipped with pink ; and Mrs. Weutworth, lilac, we 

 noted as about the best. 



Of the miscellaneous plants, there was little new. Weigela amabilis, valuable as a con- 

 tinual bloomer. Phlox criterion, a striped variety of Phlox Drummondii, and Lantana lutea 

 superba, with yellow flowers, were most attractive. 



The fruit department was well represented. Fine contributions, coming from Boston, 

 Lancaster, Moorestown, and other distant places. Mr. Lazenby's Black Hamburg Grapes, 

 the bunches weighing nine pounds and over, were better colored than usual. 



Most of the new grapes were on exhibition. The Concord (we understood, raised under 

 glass) were about half the size of Isabellas hanging beside them, and, we were informed, 

 scarcely equal to them in flavor. It is said to be valuable in the North, by being earlier than 

 that kind. 



The competition for the vegetable prizes was particularly brisk, room being with difficulty 

 provided. It is gratifying to flnd, by the increased number of competitors, and the superior 

 qualities of the productions exhibited, that gardeners and their employers are alive to their 

 interests, in supporting the Society ; the one by the honor, if not the profit, accruing to them ; 

 the other by the increased stimulus given to the gardener to aim at excellence in all things. 



The Loxdox Horticultural Society's Gardens, which were about to be sold to meet the 

 debts of the Society, are to be preserved, and the debts provided for by donations, new fellows, 

 reduced expenditures, resignation of officials, and a contract to keep the gardens up for £1,200 

 per annum. All lovers of horticulture will rejoice to hear this. 



The Scientific Convention, at Albany, has done itself great credit at its late meeting, and 

 in the opinion of our readers, did nothing of more general interest than to recommend the 

 government to take measures to protect the great California trees. Tliis, we trust, will be 

 done ; they are not numerous, and are unique. Late reports from Europe are discouraging 

 as to their healthy growth abroad — another inducement to x>rotect what we have. 



Exhibitions. — Tlie whole country is alive, this month, with exhil>itions. There will be an 

 amount of information thus disseminated that no one man can appreciate. To all we say, 

 make your efforts at utility and beauty, so as to benefit the greatest numbers. 



The Orchard-House. — We are indebted to Mr, Tliomas Rivers, of England, for the fourth 

 edition of his Orchard-IIouse, or the Cultivation of Fruit- Trees in Pots under C/ass, London, 

 1856, from which we shall make extracts for the benefit of readers. 



