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Handsome contributions were also made by Mrs. Bomford, Mrs, 

 Seaton, Mrs. Kurtz, Mrs. J. Thompson, Mrs. B. M. Berry, Mrs. Peircp, 

 Mrs. Lenthall, Mrs. Forsyth, Mrs. Doui,dass, &c., and the Misses F. 

 Clark, Gilhnan, Watterson, Boyel, M. Jones, Barnard, and Gunnell. 

 The flourishing College at Georgetown likewise contributed a large 

 collection of aloes, acacias, tea plants, cactuses, and various green-house 

 plants. Mr. Dick's large and beautiful heliotrope was much admired, and 

 also his double tlowering pomegranate, calceolaris, &.c. Of Mr. Fulmer, 

 who sent a variety of garden flowers of the best varieties, the Committee 

 thus speak : " This gentleman deserves great credit for the attention 

 he has paid to this tribe of plants, in selecting and cultivating only the 

 best and most showy sorts." Mr. John Feast's specimen of the Cactus 

 speciosissimus, with four beautiful flowers, excited great admiration, 

 Mr. San)uel Feast sent a specimen of the Cactus speciosus, with up- 

 wards of 75 expanded flowers, a collection of near 200 roses, embrac- 

 ing China, French and Scotch, splendid pseonies, &.c., which were not 

 received, unfortunately, till the evening of the second day's exhibi- 

 bition, when, from the delay and the want of water, they had been 

 considerably injured. The cactus, had it been received immediately 

 on its arrival, would, the Connnittee think, " have formed one of the 

 most splendid objects in the room." From Mrs. Bomford's choice 

 collection, fine specimens of Ficus elastica, geraniums, calceolarias, 

 &c, were obtained, and a variety of cut flowers, tastefully arrang- 

 ed in silver and China vases. Mrs. Seaton sent fine orange and lemon 

 trees, loaded with fruit and flowers, and some beautiful specimens of 

 shell flowers; Mrs. B, M. Berry, cut flowers, arranged with taste in 

 moss; Mrs. Peirce, new varieties of heart's-ease, very large and beau- 

 tiful; Miss Gilman, a beautiful collection of native and and exotic flowers 

 so arranged as to form the word " Flora," and Miss M. Johns, pretty 

 specimens of shell flowers, very creditable to the taste and skill of^ the ar- 

 tist. Of the fruits exhibited at this show, the Comnu'ttee on fruits speak 

 in high and just terms. Of the strawberries exhibited, there were some 

 specimens, the Committee remark, " which far outdid any heretofore 

 brought to the notice of the Society ; and there can be no doubt that 

 attention to the growth and cultivation of this fine fruit is firmly fixed 

 in this District, and the produce of the finest sorts much increased, to the 

 exclusion of every common and inferior kind." At this, as at the pre- 

 ceding exhibition, the superiority was awarded to Mr. William Cam- 

 mack, " whose Southborough seedling surpassed in size and beauty 

 every other specimen offered." The goosberries were fine and free 

 from rust. " Those exhibited by Mr. Cammack, from trees imported 

 by him from Lancashire, in 1834, were the largest offered, and of these the 

 green gage was decidedly the finest." The cherries were generally 

 inferior to those at former exhibitions. The parcel by M. St. C. Clarke, 

 Esq. were the finest in maturity, appearance, and flavor. The cur- 

 rants were few and small; and of the green-house fruits, the Conmiittee 

 give the superiority to those sent by Dr. McWilliams, though those 

 produced by Dr. Riley and Mr. Peirce would have reflected high honor 

 on any gardener. The following are the varieties of strawberries ex- 

 hibited : Hudson, white melon, Bath scarlet, Downton, Wilmot, Haut- 

 bois, Methven, Southborough seedlins, Keen's seedling, John Adams, 

 and Bourbon pine; and the exhibiters were Mrs. B. M. Berry, Mrs. 

 Hickey, Mrs. Seaton, Mrs. Towson, and Messrs. Hoppe, Smith, Bar- 

 nard, Ousley, William and Ednmnd Cammack. The cherries were of the 

 following kinds, viz. May and June Didce, Spnnish yellow, white-heart 

 and black Tartarian; and the goosberries, the Warrington, Hero, \\hite- 

 smith, sportsman, green gage. Waters, amber, and favorite green. The 

 fihovv of esculent vegetables was, for the season, very creditable. These 



