EDITOR'S TABLE. 



How is the name Syringa applicable to Philadelphus, the former belonging to natural order 

 Oleacece, and the latter belonging to natural order Saxlfrarjacece, the same order to Avhich 

 belongs the family Deutzia ? A Subscribee. — Rochester. 



The Philadelphus was formerly called Syringa by some old botanists, and it is yet com- 

 monly so called without any propriety. The English name of "Pipe tree" was given to 

 both on account of Turkish pipes being made from them, and they were in this way con- 

 founded. The Deutzia is closely allied to the FMladelpJius. Syringa should only be 



applied to the Lilacs. 



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Will you please inform me whether there is any good kind of Grape other than the Isabella 

 and Catawba, that will grow in our cold northern climate ? Also, which is the best time to set 

 them out — fall or spring? A Reader. — New Athens, Pa. 



The Clinton and Diana. Plant early as possible in the spring. 



?^ortituIturaI Socitttts. 



Pen^'stltania IIoETicuLTrEAL SociETT. — The twenty-fifth Exhibition of this association 

 will be held on AVednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 21st, 22d and 23d, of September, in 

 the Philadelphia Museum, corner of Ninth and George streets. A complete premium list, 

 amounting to about $4:00 is offered. We select the following items : 



Plants — from a private collection — in pots not over sixteen inches in diameter : 



For the best twenty plants, at least seven of them to be in bloom, from a private collection, a 

 prize of fifteen dollars. 



With this prize it is proposed to present a Silver pitcher, of two hundred dollars value, to be 

 raised by private subscription and donated to the Society, and to be held by the owner of the 

 successful collection for one year, and to be yearly competed for — the donors' and victors' names 

 to be engraved on the Pitcher. 



Plants from a commercial grower. — For the best twenty plants, at least one-half of them to be 

 in bloom, from commercial growers only, a Silver cup of fifteen dollars. 



Competition for premiums before this Society is free and open to all persons from any section 

 of the United States. 



Ad Interim Report June 20, 1853. — Tlie Fruit Committee, in presenting their usual monthly 

 ad interim report, would remind the Society that, at the stated meeting of last month, specimens 

 of two new grapes (one a seedling of the Black Uamburrj, the other the 3Iusqtie Verckl), were 

 exhibited by the originator, Mr. J. Fisk Allen, of Salem, Mass. Wishing to have an oppor- 

 tunity of carefully examining these two varieties, the committee only noticed them cui-sorily in 

 their regular report for that evening, with a promise of submitting a more detailed poraological 

 description of them in their June ad interim report. The specimens have been winter forced, 

 and being ripe in March, were kept too long after their maturity to be in their greatest 

 perfection. 



Allen's Seedling Slack Hamburg.— Tho bunch exhibited was not very large, though it is proba- 

 ble there will be an improvement in this respect. Berry large, black, oval; seed grey; flesh 

 \;olid, and possessing much of the character of the Black Hamburg ; quality " very good." 



Masque Verdel. — ^This is a natural cross between the Grizzly Frontignan and the Verdelhoe, the 

 wine grape of Madeira. Bunch large, shouldered, loose ; berry rather small, about half an inch 

 in diameter, round, pale red ; seed light cinnamon color; flavor rich, saccharine, highly purfumed; 

 quality " best ;" said to be as early as the Black July and the Pitmaston. 



