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Cincinnati Horticultural Society. — This society held its autumnal exhibi- 

 tion on the 26th of September, and continued open four days. On Wednes- 

 day, according to the report of the committee which has just reached us, 

 the exhibition was exceedingly fine, and gave general satisfaction to the 

 members and the public ; considering the unpropitious year for fruit, there 

 was a fine show, and the display of plants and flowers was extensive and 

 fine. The committee state that : — 



" This exhibition, although too late in the season for the display of many 

 of our choicest fruits and most beautiful flowers, was yet, through the good 

 taste and laborious exertions of some of our most distinguished horticultu- 

 rists, far more interesting to the scientific amateur, and more pleasing to 

 the mere looker on, than was supposed to be within the compass of our 

 best exertions. 



The floral department — a proper appreciation and encouragement of 

 which in any community is a proof of the prevalence of a pure and refined 

 taste — was eminently attractive, and gave striking evidence of care and 

 skill — of laborious exertion and minute attention — on the part of the ex- 

 hibitors, honorable alike to their mental and physical characteristics. 



The decorations were of such a kind, and arranged with such good taste, 

 as to produce a singularly pleasing effect. The great hall in the Masonic 

 buildings in which the exhibition was held, is 115 feet long, 56 in breadth, 

 and about 24 feet high. At the entrance there was a short avenue of cedar 

 trees, terminated by two Doric columns supporting an arch covered with 

 evergreens and decorated with flowers and wreaths ; a thicket of evergreens 

 and large greenhouse plants extended from the columns to the walls. 

 In the centre of the hall and extending about two thirds of its length, 

 was the principal table, on which the fruits, the smaller decorative designs, 

 many greenhouse plants and various flowers were arranged. Against the 

 wall on each side was a table of about the same length as that in the 

 centre. The one on the south was appropriated to vegetables and green- 

 house plants, that on the north to flowers, ornamental devices, and plants 

 of various kinds. 



In the centre of the south aisle, Mrs. Heaver's ornamental design was 

 placed, and on the north aisle Mr. Jackson's. The former sustained well 

 the reputation for good taste and skill in ornamental designs which Mrs. 

 H. acquired at the last year's exhibition. It was a square Gothic temple 

 with pinnacles, flying buttresses, and other regular Gothic attributes, with 

 a spire, the top of which was about 18 feet from the floor. The whole 

 covered with moss and adorned with flowers, neatly arranged. The floor 

 was a mosaic of dahlias to which there was an ascent of several steps, and 

 on the platform was placed Mr. Piatt Evens's globe of gold fish. 



Mr Jackson's design was a Gothic Monument, in the style of those in 

 Europe called Crosses, from the circumstance of their being each sur- 

 mounted by a cross, which they are built to sustain. It was of an octag- 

 onal form, the parts finely proportioned, and with all the decorations appro- 

 priate to that kind of monuments. It was covered with moss and ornamented 

 very gorgeously with dahlias, those splendid flowers, of which he has 



