paiil by parties wlio iiinlorKtood well what they were about. Some of the best products of 

 Ohio, here stood tho tost of this trial committee very successfully. 



Tiie good results of these public meetings cannot be denied, and it is mainly owing to 

 this Society that American Pomology has made, in so very short a time, such great strides; 

 now the engine is fairly started, all that we want is to follow in the same track, enlisting 

 tho united efforts, labors, and sacrifices, of all the men prominent either for their high \>ot=,i- 

 tion and activity, or their intelligent and practical labors. A little opposition from writers 

 like Dr. Ward and "Jeffreys," will do no harm in the end, but will tend to rouse investiga- 

 tion, and, with investigation, the truth must in the end prevail. 



Postscript to tue Downing Monument. — As we are going to press, we have received from 

 the designer of the Downing Monument the following additional inscription, which is to be 

 cut into the base of the pedestal : — 



" This memorial was erected under a resolution passed, at Philadelphia, in September, 

 " 1852, by the American Pomological Society, of which Mr. Downing was one of the original 

 " founders. Maksuall P. Wilder, President.^^ 



The United States Agricultural Exhibition, at Philadelphia, was an eminent success, 

 both as regards the display and the unequalled attendance. The receipts are said to have 

 reached thirty-nine thousand dollars ; the utmost order prevailed, and our citizens had a 

 good opportunity of -judging of the value of such exhibitions of stock and fruit. We hoped 

 to be furnished with the official report of the horticultural department, but it had not been 

 received, owing, no doubt, to an accident, when the Ilorticidtnrist went to press. 



Tue First PniLADELPniA Park.— The noble gift, made by a number of our neighbors to the 

 city of Philadelphia, of forty-five acres of land for a public park, has already been chronicled 

 in these pages. It affords us sincere pleasure to add, that the proper steps have been taken 

 by Councils, aided by an intelligent committee of the donors, to immediately improve and 

 embellish these grounds, known, till lately, as " The Hunting Park Race Course," and near 

 Germantown. That able writer and landscape gardener, Mr. William Saunders, who favors 

 our readers monthly with the " Calendar of Operations," received the first premium for tho 

 plan of laying it out, and Mr. James Gleason, both of Germantown, the second. 



Mr. Saunders, in his description, showed that he understood the principles of creating 

 scenery ; he has been appointed to superintend the entire laying out, and has gone to work 

 already to select the ornamental trees and shrubbery. This appointment will not, however, 

 as might be conjectured, interfere with his regular business of landscape and consulting 

 gardener, which is already extensive, embracing a space between Carolina and Massachu- 

 setts. 



We shall endeavor to give Mr. Saunders' plan, in a reduced form, as soon as it can be 

 prepared. 



The Genus Correa. — In a previous page will be found an essay on the cultivation of the 

 genus Correa, by Mr. E. Sanders, of Albany, to which we invite attention. Tlie London 

 Florist figures, in its last number, the beautiful Correa cardinnlis, lately exhibited by Messrs. 

 Veitch & Son, at the Crystal Palace, as one of the most beautiful and interesting. In habit, 

 it resembles Correa ventricosa, but is far superior to that kind in color and attractiveness, 

 producing rich scarlet flowers an inch to an inch and a half in length, is an abundant 

 bloomer, and of compact habit, and continues blooming longer than any other variety. 

 Correas are easily cultivated, and should be more generally known. 



Another new plant miist not be forgotten — the Pleroma elegans. This is one of the most 



