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Pelargonium. — Rousseau, gardener at Paris, Las a fine collection, 

 Rene Lottia, at Port Marly, has from the seed some witL pure white, 

 very regular form, and spotted with remarkable purple brown spots. The 

 Pelargonium, Glory of Paris, is of abundant flowers, of a cherry red hot 

 color, and the floAvers large. Duval has raised some that have fine spots 

 only, and are called ^«e spot. 



New and beautiful petunias, vervains, of various and rich colors, splen- 

 did varieties of pensces, stock gillies, pgeonies, rhododendrons, azaleas, 

 kalmias — Mr. Briot has some from the seed, now 30 years old — Irises, 

 roses, yellow and moss roses, new, very fine. Tulips again figure — double 

 ones, the callinsia, viscaria,. schizanthium, linus, grandiflorum and many 

 others. The pyrethrum roseum, from Caucasus, and Indicum. One of 

 them, Tom-pouce, (Tomb-Thumb,) a very small plant only 16 centimeters 

 (7 inches and a fraction) high, flowers of a lively purple rose color. Or- 

 chids of great variety and beauty. Tree-fern arborescent, from New 

 Holland, much admired. Bromelias, from Brazil, in fine condition, 

 Gloxinias in many varieties, with fine lively colors, of soft efi"ect, so that 

 they caress the eye ! " Nuances adoucies earessent agreablement I'organ 

 de la vision." Begonia magnifica, fi-om New Granada, introduced in 

 185.5. Bochmeria argentea, from Chicopas, in '57. Colea speciora, 

 from Tabasco, '57, with many others. Fine Cinerarias, whose flowers 

 resemble those painted on paper. The blues are from the dee-pest indigo* 

 to azure. 



Rhodoleia Championi. — Hooker called it from Captain Champion, who 

 first discovered it at Hong-Kong, In some points it resembles and rivals 

 the Camellia ; soon flowers, each branch bearing six to eight rose colored 

 flowers a little over three inches in diameter. Leaves evergreen and bright. 



Begonia laciniata. — An ornamental plant in evei"y acceptation of the 

 word, by the rich spots on its leaves, and by the ample size and double 

 coloring of its flowers. — Bengal. 



Tithonia tagetijlora. — A very vigorous annual, growing over six feet 

 high ; its flowers, of a very bright orange color, are beautiful, and it has a 

 fine and ample foliage. It came originally (seed of it) from the vicinity of 

 La Vera Cms, Mexico, by Thiery, a French traveler, in 1778. In 1821 

 it went to the London Horticultural Society. 



Daniel Hutchings, of Redfield, presents a small model of a j^lan for hold- 

 ing cattle in their stalls by the neck, so that they stand or lie down easily 

 without being troubled with halters or ropes. 



Mr. Van Vleck, of Newark, presents gooseberry pickles, having spices 

 with them, and thus yielding a catsup of high excellence, hardly surpassed 

 by any of our sauces. 



Miss Miller, of his family, presented the seed vessels of the common 

 buckhorn^ readily fashioned so as to resemble four-footed animals. 



Another lady knew them better by their country title, beau-caichers, by 

 reason of their triangular incurvated horns. 



Mr. Paine, of Brooklyn, exhibited a fine cut section of the great seed 



