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Art. II. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, ./}pril So. — Presented. — Cliiiiese naked oats, and Spnnisli Long 

 Mountain wlitat, (rorn C. R. Prescntt, Esq., Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. These 

 seeds were accompanied witli a letter from Mr. Prescott, in wliicli lie stales 

 as follows : — 



" A friend sent me a sample of each of those [the oats and wheat] which 

 were sown hist sprinjr, ratlxjr late in IMay, and the season heinnj cold, the 

 wheat was rather shrnnk in the kernel, hnt 1 am inchned to thiidi it would 

 do very well in your warm climate." 



Seeds were also presented from Mr. John Redman. 



May 2d. — Exhibited. — Epiggea repens, from E. Westor, Jr., Esq., gathered 

 from one of its native hal)itats in Duxhury. 



From Thomas Mason, Charlestown — Calceolaria rugosa, Pittosporum to- 

 bira, Geraniums, and white, yellow, and blush Tea Roses; Beauty of Eng- 

 land Rose, &c. 



From S. Sweetser, Camhridgeport, Gazania pavonia, Gladiolus bizanti- 

 nus, Melianthus major, Roses, Geraniums, &c. 



May dth. — Exhibited. — A new Seedling Auricula, from William Carter, of 

 the Botanic Garden ; green edged and very fine , also, seedling varieties of 

 the Viola. 



May 16th.— Exhibited. — Wilmot's ICarly Scarlet Rhubarh, from Messrs. 

 Hovey ; this is a fine, new and very early variety ; seedling Violas from S. 

 Walker and Messrs. Hovey. 



Art. III. Meteorological JVbtices. 



FOR APRIL. 



The weather through the month of A[)ril was variable, and colder than 

 in seasons in general. 



Thermometer. — Rfean temperature 41° 42. Highest 70° — Lowest 18° 

 above Zero. 



Winds.— N. two days— N. E. three— E. six— S. E. two— S. three— S. W. 

 one — W. nine — N. W. four days. 



Character of the Weather. Fine nine days — Fair eight days — Cloudy 

 thirteen days. 



Art. IV. Obituary. 



Death of Mr. Douglass, the Botanist. By the brig Caribean, Capt Rice, 

 ■which arrived at this port in Janu.ary, information was brought that a Mr. 

 Douglass, a scientific Englishmen, had been killed near Omoa ; it was feared 

 at the time, that it could be no other person than Mr. Douglass, the Botanist. 



