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from J. C. Lee ; bouquets from T. Prince ; single plieasant-cye, and other 

 Pinks from J. M. Ives ; variety of seedling Pinks from II. VViieatlaiid ; Pink 

 from W. iAlicklefield. 



Native plants. — From George Osgood, Danvers — Vaccinium vltis-idaea. 

 Wm. P. Richardson — Diervilla canadensis, Nynipha^a odoraia, Kahnia au- 

 gustifoha and latifoha, Aretiiiisa bulhusa and 0|)lii()glo8S()ldfs. 



There were two English Goldfinches exhibited by Mr. W. R. L. Ward, 

 which attracted considerable attention, i'rom tiie ingenuity they (iis|ilayed in 

 drawing up an inclined plane a tniniatnre wagon containing their ibod, and 

 by raising a bucket from the well beneath. — Salem Observer. 



Art. VII. Maryland Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, May 80. — Exhibited. — Early York Cabbages, by Edward Do- 

 ran ; a dwarf Clierry Tree, with ri|)e friiir, by Henry Schroeden ; Hermaiiia 

 incisa, R. A. Taylor; forty varieties of Rosts, among which were the R. 

 Harrisonia (a splendid seedling of a fine gandioge yellow) and Henry Clay ; 

 gigantea, white multiflara, sarnientosa, and other fine varieties, Pelargoniums, 

 Pansies, Mimnlus Smithii, &c., by Samuel Feast; forty varieties of Pelargo- 

 niuni, Rosa Smithii or yellow noisette, tour varieties of Azalea, Allium mol- 

 lis, Rhododendron ponticum, Justicias, &c., by John Feast; Cypripedium 

 parviflorum and flavum, from G. B. Smith. 



Art. VIII. Meteorological jYotices. 



The month of May was rather cold ; the highest range of theTliermome" 

 ter being but 83° and this for only one day. May was, also, accompanied 

 with two or three thunder showers, and the first part of tlie month with four 

 or five rainy days ; the latter part was very dry : jirevailing winds S. to E, 

 Considerable frost was seen to the north and east, on two or three mornings. 



Thermometer. — Mean temperature .54° 20. Highest 83°— Lowest 32** 

 above Zero. 



Winds.— N. one day— N. E. two— E. eleven— S. E. three— S. five— S. W. 

 three— W. four — N. W. two days. 



Character of the Weather. Fine thirteen days — Fair seven days — Cloudy 

 eleven days. 



Rainy five days — Showery two. 



