PeiiJisylvania Horticultural Society. 569 



In the department of pears, especially, it is believed that no society in 

 this country can boast a more choice variety — for while we now cultivate 

 all the foreign varieties of established reputation, our own citizens have 

 added largely to the list of choice fruit by the production of seedling pears 

 of great excellence. In addition to the large number of choice varieties 

 produced by the late Gov. Edwards, the late Thomas Howell, Esq., of this 

 city, raised at least one seedling pear (the Howell) which is pronounced by 

 distinguished pomologists to be of the first quality. Several members of 

 our society have within the last few years commenced the cultivation of 

 pears from the seed, and specimens of their production were exhibited at 

 this as well as at former fairs, which promise to add to our list of valuable 

 fruit. 



In the collection of grapes, too, great improvement has been recently 

 made, as the exhibition this year fully demonstrated. Notwithstanding the 

 backwardness of the season, well ripened and fine specimens were pre- 

 sented of several varieties of foreign grapes produced by open culture, 

 while the beautiful clusters of choice fruit, raised under glass by Mr. Ga- 

 briel, would have commanded high premiums among the many competitors 

 at the fairs in our large cities, as well as here where they had no com- 

 petitor. 



In respect to apples, while some good fruit of this description was ex- 

 hibited, yet the mischievous apple worm, which abounds on our light sandy 

 soil, will prevent our raising it, of the beauty and excellence with which it 

 is produced in heavier soils, until a remedy against the ravages of this 

 destructive insect is found. 



With this exception, we may safely assert — for the exhibition this year- 

 has fully demonstrated its truth — that no section of our country can produce 

 better fruit, or in greater variety, than the city and county of New Haven." 

 {Report.) 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. — The twenty-first annual exhibition 

 of the society was held on the 12th, 13th, and 14th of September last, in 

 the saloon of the Museum Building, Philadelphia. 



The display, as usual, was exceedingly fine, particularly of plants and 

 flowers, and the Report, in detail, makes a pamphlet of twenty-five pages. 



The principal exhibitors of plants were the President, Mr. Cope, Jas. 

 Dundas, P. Mackenzie, and John Lambert. 



The designs were the most prominent feature of the exhibition, if we 

 may judge from the report and the number of premiums awarded for the 

 same. The principal of them are thus noticed in the report: — 



By A. Henderson, gardener to E. A. Stevens, Hoboken, N. J. : — A 

 design representing Mountain's Model of the Washington Monument, in 

 height about 12 feet, and a square base of six feet, upon which rested the 

 first or lower apartment, of about half its height, of a round form, con- 

 structed with thirteen arches according with the original states, the hewn 

 stone of the masonry represented with lichens, other portions covered with 

 moss ; the second or upper division was formed of thirty columns support- 

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