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usual, while gilliflowers, Ferbena AubleU'a, the red trumpet honeysuckle, 

 (Caprifolium sempervirens,) exhibited some scattering blossoms. Phlox 

 setacea, var. nivalis, was full of buds in a state of forwardness ; while chick- 

 weed and Poa annua were in perfect flower in the neglected borders and paths. 

 On the same day, I found also Malva rotundifolia full of flowers, Erysimum 

 vulgare, j^epidium virginicum, the common clover, TVifolium pratense, 

 with several heads of perfect blossoms. Some lingering blossoms were to 

 be seen on cabbages set out for seed from the tops of side sprouts : on the 

 twenty-sixth, the dandelion (Leontodon Taraxacum,) and a full-grown 

 flower of whiteweed, (Leucanthemum vulgare,) and, on November twenty- 

 seventh, Apargia autumnalis, and Trifolium repens, or white clover. The 

 twenty-ninth and thirtieth were very cold, and winter seemed to have set in, 

 in earnest ; but, on the second of December, the weather moderated, and, on 

 this day, the rain from an easterly point of the compass has succeeded a 

 drenching storm from the south-west of last night, and reminds us of those 

 early autumnal rainy days, which are not unusual at that season of the 

 year. ' A slight sprinkling of snow fell on Sunday evening, November 29th, 

 the only indication that winter has really come. — J. L. R., South Hing- 

 ham, December 3d, 1847. 



Art. III. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



When our last number went to press, want of room compelled us to omit 

 the reports of the doings of the several meetings held in November. We 

 now give them in order. 



November 13th. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day — 

 the President in the chair. 



The following persons were elected members : — Edward N. Perkins, 

 Brookline ; G. R. Minot, S. M. Weld, Roxbury ; Dr. Daniel Chaplin, 

 Cambridgeport ; Alexander Pope, and Benjamin Hemmenway, Dorches- 

 ter ; James Hill, Somerville ; N. Hooper, Horace Gray, and Edward King, 

 Boston. 



Adjourned for three weeks to December 4th. 



December ith. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day — 

 the President in the chair. 



No business of importance came before the meeting, and it was adjourned 

 for three weeks to December 25th. 



[An error occurred in the list of oflicers for 1848. The name of C. M. 

 Hovey was omitted as Chairman of the Library Committee.] 



December llth. — Exhibited. — Fruit: From J. F. Allen, Winter Nelis, 

 Passe Colmar, Chaumontel, (fine,) Easter Beurr6, (fine,) and Lewis pears, 

 White Frontignan and Black Hamburgh grapes. From M. P. Wilder, 

 Beurr6 d'Aremberg, and Glout Morceau pears, both of which sustain their 

 high character. From Jabez Wetherbee, apples, for a name. From H. Van- 

 dine, New Long Rose Water, and Passe Colmar pears. From Josiah Lov- 

 ett, Glout Morceau, Le Cur6, and Winter Nelis pears, (fine,) also Minis- 



