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well, specimens are desired, accompanied with memoranda respecting the 

 soil upon which they grew and their culture. 



Every contributor is respectfully requested to make a list of his speci- 

 mens and present the same with his fruits, in order that a report of all the 

 varieties entered, may be submitted to the convention as soon as possible 

 after its organization. 



The undesrigned, in behalf of the societies they represent, respectfully 

 solicit delegations from all horticultural and agricultural societies of our 

 country, and of such number of persons as each society may deem expe- 

 dient to send. 



Societies will please transmit, at an early day, a list of the delegates 

 they have appointed, to the corresponding secretary of the American Insti- 

 tute, T. B. Wakeman, Esq., New York. — {Circular of Committee of 

 Arrangements.) 



New Seedling Slraicberrus. — [Mr. J. Richardson, of Cambridgeport, whose 

 advertisement appears in our present number, has raised several needling 

 strawberries, three of which he deems of sufficient meiit to name. We 

 examined the beds when in full bearing, and consider one of them a very 

 desirable variety ; this is the one called Richardson's Late ; not so appro- 

 priate a name as might have been selected, as it is not later than our seed- 

 ling ; but, under his cultivation, it is a great bearer, and of very good size. 

 Mr. Richardson does not know whether his plants are pistillate or stami- 

 nate ; but, from a careful inspection of some of the old flower stems, we 

 believe it staminate, and this we think constitutes its real merit. 



W. R. Prince & Co., of Flushing, have also produced a number of seed- 

 ling strawberries, as will probably have been noticed by the advertisement 

 in our last number ; and some of them are said to be very desirable kinds. 

 The names of the most prominent are Primate, Primordian, and Profuse 

 Scarlet. For these and other seedlings, Mr. Prince received prizes at the 

 June exhibition of the Long Island Horticultural Society. — Ed.] 



Oil's Seedling Pear.— This is the name of a new summer pear, recently 

 exhibited before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and received 

 from Philadelphia, in the neighborhood of which city, we believe, it was 

 raised. It is of medium size, somewhat resembling Dearborn's Seedling 

 in form. The flesh is melting and juicy, and the flavor sprightly, rich, 

 perfumed, and excellent. It is a decided acquisition to our summer 

 pears. 



Mexican Squash. — Dr. Lewis W. Minor, of U. S. N., brought, last year, 

 from Vera Cruz, a few seeds of the mammoth squash, peculiar, we believe, 

 to that latitude. They were given to the Hon. J. W. Lesesne, who care- 

 fully planted and cultivated them in his garden. The vines are of large 

 growth, and occupy as much space as those of the pumpkin, and are now 

 loaded with fruit. We have been presented with one, the circumference 

 of which measures, one way, two feet five inches, and, the other, two feet 

 two and a half inches. It is as soft and tender as the most delicate of the 

 squash family. The flesh is whitish yellow, of fine flavor, and far superior, 

 in all respects, to the best squashes common with us. — Mobile Herald. 



