458 Exhibitions of Horticultural Societies. 



quantity of uncommonly large and fine Lisbon onions, raised from the 

 seed. It is worthy of remark, that the garden of the Naval Asylum is 

 in its infancy, and consequently cannot possess the advantages of those 

 of longer standing, and that the onions were not produced in the ordi- 

 nary way, from sets or small onions of the previous year, but from the 

 seed. (Journal of Belles Lettres.) 



Horticultural Society of Charleston, S. C. — This Society held its 

 annual meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 12th and 13th of July 

 last, at the Medical College, Broad Street. An account of this meeting 

 is given in the Southern Agriculturist. Since the anniversary of the 

 Society, however, we have heard nothing of its exhibitions. We have 

 repeatedly expressed a wish that some of our friends in that city would 

 send us a report of the meetings of the Society, but as yet we are only 

 able to give the following, which we extract from the Agriculturist: it 

 is from the re])ort of a committee of the Society: — 



Dahlias. — The dahlias of the last summer did not equal those of the 

 pi-eceding year, although many beautiful and new varieties were intro- 

 duced. In Mr. F. Naser's garden there still appeared to have been a 

 larger number and greater variety of handsome flowers than were re- 

 marked elsewhere, and he is thouaht to be entitled to a premium for his 

 successful cultivation of them. The finest that were seen in other gar- 

 dens wei'e those of Messrs. Bennett, Lucas, Howard, North, Webb, 

 Moultrie, Bachman and Winthrop. Some of the dahlias of this spring 

 have been fine, but the drought has injured them very materially. At 

 Mr. Baker's some beautiful specimens were exhibited from the gardens 

 of Messrs. Wotherspoon, Naser, Bancroft and others. One plant in 

 Mr. Naser's garden produced a number of specimens, with two oppo- 

 site centres, resembling two flowers adhering by their bases. 



The winter and spring did not seem to be very favorable to the flow- 

 ering of camellias, which were not generally fine, but some remarkably 

 handsome and new varieties have been exhibited in fine perfection. 

 The gardens in which they flourished best were those of Messrs. Lu- 

 cas, Bennett, Patterson, Gonsalez, Michel, Schi'ieber and Guillemin. 

 There was one belonging to Mr. Patterson exhibited at Mr. Baker's, 

 which excited universal admiration. This was also the case with those 

 of Messrs. Gonsalez and Michel, but it was thought that Mr. Lucas 

 had the largest and finest collection of every other, for which he is 

 entitled to the premium. The coldness of the spring was uncongenial 

 to the full perfection of the bulbous roots. 



Hyacinths. — The largest number of this beautiful plant, amounting 

 to upwards of three thousand, was observed in the garden of Mrs. M. 

 Davis, some of them very beautiful. Individual examples that were 

 finer even than these, were seen in several gardens, and your committee 

 was informed that there were many of an extraordinary beauty in Messrs. 

 Edmondston and Lucas's gardens, but not until they had past bloom. 

 They cannot, therefore, pass an opinion on them, and recommend the 

 premium to Mrs. Davis. 



In her garden thei-e were some very handsome tulips, but those at Dr. 

 Boylston's being equally as fine and much more numerous, entitle him 

 to the premium. I'he roots in both these instances were saved from 

 preceding years, and, according to the accounts received, were finer 

 than at first. Those in Mr. Teasdale's garden would have been much 

 finer, but for the lateness of the period at which they were planted. From 

 this garden were exhibited the scarlet and yellow Crown Imperial. — 

 One of the yellow variety also blossomed in Mr. Javain's garden. Your 

 committee arc induced to notice this plant, quite common as it is at the 

 north, from the extreme rarity of its blooming in our city. 



The beautiful ranunculus did not seem to have been cultivated as ex- 



