238 Notes and Gleanings. 



BiGNONiA Venusta. — We are under obligations to Mr. George Cruick- 

 shanks, gardener to J. C. Whitin, Esq., Whitinsville, Mass., for a remarkably 

 fine specimen of the flowers of this beautiful climber. Mr. Cruickshanks 

 informs us that the plant, which has heretofore been supposed to require a hot- 

 house temperature, was trained under the roof of the green-house, where the 

 thermometer has not stood over forty-five degrees at night, and often as low as 

 thirty-eight degrees. The plant is about sixteen or seventeen years old, and was 

 cut in severely until two years ago. Since then he has cut away only such branches 

 as interfered with other plants in the green-house. It is planted in the ground in 

 the green-house, the roots running under the water-pipe. 



ViNELAND Agricultural and Horticultural Society. — The annual 

 election of the officers of this society was held January 8, 1870, and resulted as 

 follows : — 



President^ Philip Snyder ; Vice-President, Charles S. Mason ; Rec. Secretary, 

 S. P. York ; Cor. Secretary, Philip Snyder ; Treasurer, John Ingram, M. D. ; 

 Librarian, G. R. Starkweather ; Standi?tg Committee, C. B. Campbell, S. R. 

 Fowler, Charles de Groff. 



The membership for 1869 slightly exceeded three hundred, embracing quite a 

 number of ladies, some of whom are successful fruit growers. The disburse- 

 ments for the year were about twelve hundred dollars. The society is doing an 

 excellent work. Since the election the constitution has been amended in some 

 important particulars, which, it is believed, will result in greatly increasing the 

 society's strength and usefulness. These provide for a system of annual pay- 

 ments and credits for premiums (when awarded) which, when amounting to 

 twenty-five dollars, makes the member a life member, and then entitles him to 

 cash premiums ; also the placing of all funds for life membership at compound 

 interest for a series of years, to create an endowment fund. 



Fine Roses. — The following collection of roses exhibited by J. C. Chaffin at 

 the Annual Rose Show of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society received the 

 Hunnewell premium for the best twenty named Hybrid Perpetuals, viz. : — 



Anna de Diesbach, Marie Beauman, General Jacqueminot, Fisher Holmes, 

 Therese Levet, President Mas, Mademoiselle Bonnaire, Pierre Notting, Charles 

 Lefebvre, Duchesse de Caylus, Mad. Marie Rady, Mad. Charles Crapelet, Mad. 

 Pulliat, Mons. Boncenne, Ville de Lyon, Victor Verdier, Mad. Victor Verdier, 

 Prince Camille de Rohan, Senateur Vaisse, Jules Margottin. 



