438 £DITOa'S TABLE. 



The Annual Fair of the Illinois Stnte Agricultural ScK-iety will bo held at Peoria (Illinois), 

 on the 21st, 2'M, 2,M, 24th, ami 2r)th of Sopteuiht-r. Ten thouHaml dollars arc offered in 

 ])reniiunis by this most spirited Association, and the objects embraced are very numerous 

 and various. 



The Trogramme of tho Tompkins County (N.Y.) Agricultural and Horticultural Society's 

 Exhibitiou, is an excellent one. The Fair will bo held September 23d, 24th, and 25th, at 

 Ithaca. 



Ohio Pomological Society. — Tlie eighth session of the Ohio Pomological Society will be 

 held in Cincinnati, commencing on Monday, September 14, &c. (during the week of the 

 State Fair). The meetings of this Society are now held biennially, alternating with those 

 of the American Pomological Society. Those who attend are requested to bring with them 

 specimens of such fruits as are found most valuable in their respective districts of country, 

 and which have not been fully discussed at former meetings ; specimens of good peaches 

 and pears are particularly desired at this meeting, and it is hojjed that all will come pre- 

 pared to contribute something to the general stock of knowledge in regard to fruits and fruit 

 culture. 



Communications in writing are also solicited on subjects likely to be discussed at the meet- 

 ing : such as the names and qualities of fruits adapted for different sections of our country 

 especially such as are found most productive and profitable for market ; observations on the 

 diseases of fruits and fruit-trees, and the means of their cure and prevention, including any 

 experiments in the use of lime, plaster, ashes, or other fertilizers for fruit-trees ; also, noU'S, 

 on insects injurious to orchards and fruit gardens. 



The meeting will be held in the hall of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society. Address the 

 President, at Cincinnati, or the Secretary, at Columbus. 



A. H. Eenst, President; M. B. Bateuam, Secretary. 



yjorticulhual .iocidics. 



Pennsylvania HoKTicrLTURAL Society, meeting at Concekt Hall, August 18. — This was 

 probably one of the best August exhibitions ever held, in some part owing to the favorable 

 season, but, in a great measure, to the increasing taste and si)irit of the exhibitors. The 

 plants were never better grown, or in finer condition ; but we think the same faces appear 

 too often, and others are a little too common. Thunbergias, scarlet geraniums, Cuphea 

 platycentras, and fuchsias, on other florists' flowers, however well grown or beautiful, are 

 scarcely what we expect to see in a collection of choice greenhouse or stove i)lants. There 

 were, nevertheless, some rare things amongst them: Plumeiria purpurea, a plant with the 

 appearance and beauty of an Oleander, Mediuella magnifica, a new, yellow Kchites, called 

 Pellierii, Canna Warczewicsii, amongst others we particularly noted as valuable. We also 

 noted, as a valuable sweet-scented greenhouse plant, a jasminum called Aurantiacum, 

 covered with yellow flowers, which, we presume, is not new, but far less common than it 

 should be. The class of handsome Gloxinias, of whi(-h G. Fyfiana is a well known type, 

 has now many representatives. A new one, called Etna, white, with red throat, attracted 

 much attention. Cut specimens of new Gladiolus contained many improvements in these 

 beautiful flowers ; we noted "Adonis" as one of the best. Two specimens, in vases, of 

 Thorburn's imported verbena " Imperatrice imperial," were the most beautiful objects in 

 the room. A collection of twenty-four varieties of herbaceous Phlox, by one grower, were 

 much admired ; and, in another beautiful collection, we noticed the fine-striped variety Roi 

 Leopold. Baskets of magnificent Balsam flowers, comprised a novel and interesting feature ; 

 and the baskets and bouc^uets were so irnusually numerous and beautiful, that even a Paris 

 would have been unable to decide on their merits, and, we believe, the Society voted them 

 all premiums. The Cactus men in the room must have enjoyed a treat in the Cereus trian 

 gularis, so seldom seen in flower. 



