EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Cumberland county, Penn. Specimens fine. Large ; obtuse heart-shaped, sometimes roundish, 

 compressed at the sides; deep crimson, almost purple when fully ripe ; suture indistinct ; stem 

 rather long, slender, inserted in a broad, open cavity ; apex slightly depressed ; stone roundish- 

 oval, compressed ; flesh rather solid, red, slightly adherent to the stone ; flavor fine ; quality 

 "best;" period of maturity about the middle of June. 



JuxE Exhibition of the Genesee Valley Horticultural Society. — Report of the Committee on 

 Flowers. — Owing to the exceeding hot and dry weather which was prevailing at the time of, and 

 for ten days prior to, the exhibition, the contributions to this department were not as good as 

 they would have been if the season had been more favorable. Although the contributors had 

 much to contend against, it was one of the finest shows, particularly of Roses, ever held by the 

 Society. Of the amateurs .J. A. Eastman, E-5q., contributed 66 varieties of Roses ; A. Frost <fe Co., 

 among the Kurserymen, 21 o varieties of the rose; Ellwanger & Barry, 197 sorts; Samuel 

 MouLSON, 80 varieties ; Wm. King, 132 varieties ; J. J. Thomas, Macedon, 60 varieties. 



Premiums Awarded to Amateurs. — Pansies in basket, best display, Sarah A. Moulson, $3. 



Hoses — Best collection classed and named, J. A. Eastman, Esq., diploma. 



Verbenas — 12 varieties, in pots, finely trained on horizontal trellises, J. Salter, gardener to J. 



W. BiSSELL, 83. 



Fuchsias — Best collection correctly named, J. S.alter, gar. to J. "W. Bissell, So. 

 Pelargoneums — 7 varieties of seedlings, very fine, and some of them much better than the older 

 sorts, JosiAH. Salter, gar. to J. W. Bissell, diploma. 



Table boquets — Best pair, Lillie Greenough and Julia Miller, $3. 



Best Floral Ornament — A large pyramid of very fine flowers, to J. C. McXab, gar. to John 

 Greig, Esq., Canandaigua, $3. Second best to Miss Hooker, $2. 



Miss Sarah A. Moulson, a beautiful mound of roses, $2. 



Miss Adams exhibited two exquisite moss baskets, filled with roses, which were much admired. 



Mr. Robert Hardy presented a beautiful basket ornamented with roses. 



Two floral ornaments were very creditable to the exhibitor. Miss McGarry. 



Quite a novelty was placed upon the table by H. G. Warner, Esq., in the way of an Amaryllis, 

 taken from its native soil by Mr. Warner, on the 3d of June, in the province of Kew Grenada. 



Nurserymen. — Green-house Plants — Be^t collection, A. Frost & Co., diploma ; 2d do, Ellwan- 

 ger & Rarry, $8. 



Boquets— E&s,t two table, John Donnellan and nephews, 83 ; 2d do, A. Frost & Co., 82. Best 

 two round hand, C. J. Ryan, 82 ; 2d do, Ellwanger & Barry, 81. Best two flat hand, A. Frost 

 & Co., 82. 



Roses — Best 25 varieties, Wm. King, 85 ; 2d do, A. Frost & Co., 83. Best collection, Ellwan- 

 ger & Barry, diploma ; 2d do, Samuel Moulson, 85. Best 18 new perpetual and hybrid perpet- 

 uals, A. Frost & Co., $6. 



Awarded John J. Thomas, for a fine display of roses, and other cut flowers, a diploma. 



A very fine floral design three feet high, in the form of a vase, made of moss and choice selec- 

 tion of flowers, A. Frost <fe Co., a diploma. They also presented a bed, literally covered with 

 roses, that attracted much attention for its novelty. 



Wm. King also had in flower a Cactus, and a beautiful Amaryllis Johnsonii, of the former species. 



Ellwanger & Barry had a plant of the variety Speciosissima, with beautiful crimson flowers. 



Awarded a diploma to C. F. Van Dorn for a faithful representation of the Calla Eiliiopica, and 

 a painting of grapes, on canvass. 



Report of Fruit CoMJnTTEE. — Tlic fruit ofl"ered consisted principally of strawberries. Of these 

 the display was very good, although the warm and dry weather that preceded the exl 

 injured the size and appearance of the specimens, and prevented many from exhibiting wh 



