84 MnssacJmsctts Horticultural Society. 



buds and shoots till your inserted germ shall have attained strength, and 

 you will have a stock, which will not sucker, and which, unless I am 

 much mistaken, will last a long time. 1 have not confined myself to seed- 

 ling stocks, but have fine standatds from the Felienberg and Comptesse de 

 Griilon, which are not very valuable intrinsically. I have La Reine and 

 LafFay's Indigo on a seedling stock, gi-owing beautifully since last July, 

 and La Reine and Solfitaire on Griilon. The greatest objection to Harri- 

 son's Yellow, is the number of suckers it sends up. — Vtry respectjulli/, 

 Jas. P. Waddell, Athens, Ga., Dec. 1817. 



Art. IIL Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, December 25th, 1817. — An adjourned meeting of the Society 

 was held to-day, — the President in the Chair. 



Messrs. Walker and French, the delegates appointed to attend the Annual 

 Exhibiiioa of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, submitted the follow- 

 ing report : — 



The delegates appointed to visit the Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylva- 

 nia Horticultural Society, held at Philadelphia, on the 15th, 16th, and 17th 

 of September, 1847, beg leave respectfully to report that they have attended 

 to the duty assigned them. 



The fame of this Society, for its enthusiastic love of flowers and fruits, — 

 its usefulness — its zeal — its gorgeous displays, rendered more efficient by 

 the extent of its splendid Hall — and the hospitality of its members, has 

 reached every part of our country. With a full knowledge of these facts, 

 your Committee proceeded to Philadelphia, with the impression that they 

 should be made wiser, if not better, by the grand exhibition they antici- 

 pated. In this, they were not disappointed. The exhibition of pot plants 

 was truly a splendid affair. The designs were beautiful — the arrangements 

 chaste. Indeed, every thing was so nicely managed, by the efficient com- 

 mittee of ladies and gentlemen, that the Hall, from its entrance to its roof, 

 told that the spirit of Horticulture ivas there. 



To go into detail is not the province of your Committee; but they can- 

 not refrain stating that the floral display of this society was far superior to 

 any thing of the kind they ever visited. 



The fruit department contained many fine specimens of apples, pears, 

 plums, and peaches ; but, as this was not an abundant fruit season in that 

 state, the specimens were not so numerous as usual. 



Among the varieties of pears, we noticed several seedlings which orig- 

 inated in Philadelphia, and its vicinity, some of which are already known 

 and cultivated in Europe, as of the best quality, viz. : — Seckel, Petre, Lodge, 

 Chapman, Moyamensing, Pennsylvania, Haddington, Washington, Copasa, 

 Kingsessing, and Tyson. 



