Domestic Notices. 367 



verbenas, six varieties, dianthus, six varieties, Iberis, two varieties, pyre- 

 thrums, and many other plants. 



Premiums : On Carnations and Picotees. — For the best six varieties, to Wil- 

 liam Buswell, for Empress, Portia, Euterpe, Flora, Incomparable, and Des- 

 demona, $2 00. For the best three varieties, to Dr. H. Wendell, for Ari- 

 adne, Ceres, and Josephine, $1 00. 



On Dahlias. — For the best display, to AA'illiam Newcoml, $2 00. For 

 the best twelve varieties, to William ^'ewconib, for Caleb Cojie, Conductor, 

 Constantia, Mrs. Shelly, Essex Goldfinch, Prince.'^s RadzviJIe, Isis, lihuriel, 

 Beeswing, Lady Featherstone, Marquis of Aylesbury, and Dowager Lady 

 Cooper, $2 00. For the best six, to D. T. Vail, for Hiimlet, Mrs. Shelly, 

 Model, Marquis of Aylesbury, Princess Radzville, and Venusia, :^1 00. 



For the best display of perennial, biennial, and annuals, to William Kew- 

 comb, $2 00. 



For the best six greenhouse plants, in pots, to L. Menand, for Agapan- 

 thus, umbellata, Begonza, sanguinea, CJethra arborea, Fuchs/a Chauviern', 

 Gloxinia coccinea, and Veronica speciosa, ^2 CO. — S. VVickcs, Chairman. 



Floral Designs, Bouquets, &c. — The committee rejiorts that D. 

 Thomas Vail, exhibited one splendid large round boi;quet, for centre table 

 vase, arranged with exquisite taste, and composed of choice roses, pelargo- 

 niums, pansies, fuchsias, verbenas, heliotropeums, &c., to which the com- 

 mittee awarded the premium of $2 00. 



One beautiful flat hand bouquet, composed of choice flowers ; one round 

 hand bouquet, composed of rare flowers beautifully arranged, and one beau- 

 tiful basket bouquet, composed of choice roses, pansies, pelargoniums, fu- 

 chsias, &c., arranged with good taste. 



By L. Menand, a very beautiful hand bouquet, composed of Gloxinza 

 coccinea. Phlox Van Houteu, and anosmoeflora, £upli6rbza splendens, A'rica 

 Bouvearaa, Hoya carnosa, Kusselha^iincea, campanulas gardenias, Gladiulus 

 formosissimum, roses in several varieties, &c. Also a beautifully arranged 

 round hand bouquet, composed of about the same varieties of flowers. 



By William Buswell, a flat hand bouquet, composed of spireas, campa- 

 nulas, iberis, delphinums, &c. 



By Mrs. C. H. Merritt, a beautifully arranged vase of choice cut roses, 

 pelargoniums, heliotropes, verbenas, pansies, &c. 



By Dr. H. Wendell, an exquisitely arranged basket bouquet, composed 

 of a large number of choice rose buds, pelargoniums, pansies, helioiropi- 

 ums, &c., to which the premium is awarded of $2 00. A round centre- 

 table bouquet, arranged in good taste, and composed of choice roses, spiieas, 

 salvias, verbenas, carnations, pelargoniums, &c. 



By William Newcomb, a flat bouquet, for mantel vase, composed of 

 choice flowers, and arranged with good taste, to which the committee 

 awarded the premium of #2 00. 



By J. Rathbone, two round centre-table bouquets, composed of choice 

 roses, pinks, fuchsias, spireas, Sic. 



By James Wihson, a beautiful flat hand bouquet, composed of choice 

 flowers, as Hoya carnosa, gardenias, calceolarias, neiiuma ; Roses, Opliire, 



