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places. Hartweg found it in the San Antonio range, near Monterey, at 

 4000 feet of elevation. It is a robust species, reaching from 80 to 120 feet, 

 and sometimes 4 feet in diameter. Endlicher questions wiiether this is not 

 the same with the P. Sabiniana of Douglass ; it certainly is not. It is con- 

 sidered to be undoubtedly hardy. It is still rare and young here. 



Pinus insignis. — A Californian species, one of the most beautiful of the 

 genus, stands an ordinary winter ; but its perfect hardihood is questionable, 

 as it was killed in some parts in the severe winter of 1837-38. It has stood 

 the winter here as yet. Hartweg, in his recent account of the vegetation 

 of California, holds this species as identical with P. radiata, and P. iuber- 

 culaia, noticed below, the different forms and habits giving rise to the syn- 

 onyms, being attributable to local causes. 



Lastly of this section, there is here the very beautiful and rare P. persica; 

 though derived from the South of Persia, (hence its name,) it has been 

 found to be undoubtedly hardy ; very new and scarce. 

 {To be continued.) 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



Annual Exhibition of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society. — The exhibi- 

 tion of our Society was a most successful effort, satisfactory to all, and one 

 that you would have been pleased to have witnessed. I wish you could 

 have been present to have enjoyed it, and to have done justice to it with 

 your able pen. An efficient report from the appropriate committee is in 

 press, a copy of which I will send you, and of which I hope you will take 

 some notice. — Yours, respectfully, A. H. Ernst, Cincinnati, Oct., 1849. 



Messrs. Hogg df Son^s Collection of Plants, at YorhviUe. — Being in New 

 York, we called at the nursery of Messrs. Hogg, and in looking through 

 the greenhouses, noticed the following new or interesting plants : — Plum- 

 bago LarpentfE, Adamza cyanea, Tropse^olum \io\ihianum, Hindsia longi- 

 flora and violacea, Henfreya scandens, Torenza asiatica, Gloxinza Teuch- 

 leri. Gardenia Sherbourni;, Scutellaria Ventenati, and many others. Messrs. 

 Hogg have also a fine collection of Orchideous plants, mostly unnamed, re- 

 ceived from South America, and among them some fine Stanhopeas. The 

 whole collection we found in very neat order. — Ed. 



Third Annual Exhibition of the New Bedford Horticultural Society. — 

 Dear Sir, — I send you reports of the several committees on fruits, flowers, 

 and vegetables, exhibited here, on the 26th, 27th, and 28th of last month, 

 it being the Third Annual Exhibition of the New Bedford Horticultural 

 Society ; of which reports you are at liberty to make any and whatever no- 

 tice you may choose, in your Magazine. 



Although our means are small, and until recently these means have been 

 almost wholly unimproved, still there is some little horticultural taste and 

 interest here, which we hope to increase, and which, in time, we trust will 

 enable us to overcome, or at least greatly neutralise, many of the natural 

 disadvantages of our location. Our soil, however, notwithstanding certain 



