272 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 



Roses — Ponsa parfait,Watt's Celestia, Roi de Prusse, Lee's Wellington, 

 Brennuscrick's rose, Fair Maid of Perth, Village maid, La belle Parisien, 

 Snowball, L'Obscmite, Talma nouveau, Mobach, (a rival of the next,) 

 Rivers's George IV, La beaute el)louissant, Leopoldine de Napoleon, 

 pourpre le plus magnifique, Hollandoise, Attalaine du Bourbon, margin- 

 ed Hip, Mount Vesuvius, belle Liloise, Due d'Angouleme, La Tourtu- 

 relle, Duchess de Berri, Waterloo real, Kuitesofi', delicatesse, maiden's 

 blush, Tuscan}', bicolor, belle Aurore, ranunculus, Cupid; thirty-four 

 varieties, from Jos. S. Cabot. 



Fine specimens of calceolaria, pelargoniums, iVereum splendens, Ce- 

 reus speciosissimus, with the following roses, viz: moss, Rivers's George 

 IV, Lee's crimson perpetual, rouge sujierbe, Gen. KuitesofF, new j)rov- 

 ins, cabbage provins, Flora's riches, Edenbersrer, two colored mignonne, 

 black Merice, Nigritienne, Welch provins, L'Obscurite, premier noble, 

 Grand Pompadour, bicolor, belle Aurore, pourpre mammoth (?), gloria 

 niundi, carmine, Brussels, black Mogul, L'Ombre superbe, mourning, 

 negro panache, Victoire, neijro, Pluto, Marshal Blucher, Swisse, Em- 

 press of France, Imperial, Ventori's superb, gloria superba, European, 

 maiden's blush, Asmodeus, Eriophylla, Singleton's hundred leafed, deli- 

 catesse, Roxelane, petite hundred leaved; forty-two varieties, from 

 Messrs. Putnam. 



The following variety of roses from J. M. Ives, viz: Swiss, Proser- 

 pine niger, Tuscany, Roxlandia, Fanny Parrard, Vestre, Bishop's, moss 

 provins. Nonpareil, Edenberger, white Ayrshire, fl. pi., garden velvet, 

 Garnier's striped, double blush. From S. Driver, Jr., roses; moss, 

 European maiden's blush, cabbage and royal cabbage, Bishop, border, 

 Goliah, Lodovicus, Kuitesoff, sable, mottled, Tuscany, royal pui'ple, 

 King of reds, and a seedling. 



A well grown cucumber from the garden of J. C. Lee Avas on the 

 table, some cherries (unripe) of a good quality, from J. M. Ives, called 

 by him, Manning's white Bigarrau, and a small cluster of ripened black 

 Hamburg grapes, from the green-house of J. F. Allen, A full attend- 

 ance of the citizens seemed to evince much interest in this second dis- 

 play, and many encomiums were passed on the collection of roses. A 

 splendid day and all other cii'cumstances uniting to render it agreeable 

 and instructive. — X. 



Art. IV. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 



The monthly meeting of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society was 

 held on Tuesday the 19th of June, in the Hall under the Atheneum, the 

 President in the chair. 



The Committee on Vegetables awarded the premium of three dollars 

 to Wm. Chalmers, senior gardener to Mrs Stot, Turner's Lane, for the 

 best six heads of early cabbage, grown in the open ground, at the Soci- 

 ety's intermediate meeting of the 30th May, no competition. 



The Committee on Plants and Flowers awarded the premium for the 

 best display of plants in pots that evening to Wm. Chalmers, senior gar- 

 dener to Mrs. Stot, who exhibited Crassula coccinca, Ixora coccinea, 

 Gloxinia speciosa, G. Candida, Ornithogalum niveum, Trachelium cse- 

 rvllea, Begonia insignis, Fuchsia globosa, Finca rosea, F. alba, pelar- 



