462 Horticul. Association of the Valley of the Hudson. 



bridge Hero, Ruby, Dodd's Mary, Unique, Hope, Eva, Calliope, 

 Mecket's Helen, Ovid— Mr. Wi.biall. 



Second best ditto—Eva, Dodd'n Mary, Clark's Julia, Topaz, Suffolk 

 Hero, C 111 brid>;e Hero, Victory, Standard. Sir Henry Fletcher, Sprin-,'- 

 field Rival, Jeffrey's Triunipliant, Sjuibb's Purple Perfection — Mr. 

 Searle. 



Third best ditto— ?iirp]e Perfection, Cambrid-je Hero, Suffolk Hero, 

 Countess of Torrinaton, Rienzi, Topaz, Unir|ue, Svlvia, Carmine Per- 

 lection. Ruby, Calliope, Springfield Rival— Mr. R. Headly. 



Fourth best dilto—S'\u\l,b's Purple Perfection, Suffolk Hero, Quill- 

 ed Perfection, Golil-finder, W^cstniinster Rival, Addison, Lady Dart- 

 mouth, Maid of Tudor, Ruby, Levick's Triumphant, Dodd's Mary, 

 Jeffrey's Triumphant. 



Best seedling dahlia— Mr. Widnall; second best ditto, Mr. R. Head- 

 ly; third best ditto, Mr, Ready. 



After we have given the returns of all the large shows, we shall sum 

 up those flowers which have been eminently successful, and add some 

 further remarks upon the exhibitions. — Ed. 



Art. n. Horticultural Association of the Valley of the Hudson. 



This association was organized on the 30th of May last, by some of 

 the most zealous amateurs and practised cultivators residinjr on the 

 banks of the river Hudson, and the adjacent counties. The objects 

 aimed at, are the improvement of the arts of culture irenerally; and 

 the semi-annual exhibitions which are to take place at New York, and 

 various places on the river, will, it is believed, be the means of increas- 

 ing largely the taste for pomology, floriculture, and horticulture gene- 

 rally, throughout the entire state. The old Horticultural Society of New 

 York having gradually dwindled away and become extinct, its place 

 will, we hope, be taken, and its object more effectually promoted by the 

 more active zeal, and broader interests and purposes of this new asso- 

 ciation. The territory directly within the scope of the association, is 

 cue of the most fertile and highly cultivated portions of the Middle States, 

 and the exhibitions, when the society shall be fully in operation, will, 

 we have no doubt, be fully equal to those of any similar society in the 

 country. 



The first exhibition, which was in fiict the first meeting of the Associ- 

 ation, took place on the 28th anri 29rh of September, in the large muse- 

 um room of the Lyceum of Natural History, New York. Owing to 

 the previous severe and protracted drought, and the imperfect notices of 

 the exhibition, which had been given to the members on some parts of 

 the river, the extent and variety of articles shown were not so large as 

 may, hereafter, reasonably be anticipated. The splendor of the dahlias, 

 however, considering the dry weather, was remarkalilc, and the fine 

 collection shown by Mr. Thorburn, iVom his garden at Hallet's Cove, 

 L. L, was particularly beautiful. Upwards of one hundred varieties of 

 apples were on the tables, from the orchards of the President, Judce 

 Buel, of Albany, and the enormous size of some of the products on the 

 vegetable list, ailbrded abundant j)roof of the richness and fertility of 

 the soil in the neighborhood of the city. 



J. A. Thompson, Catskill, jircsente'd the following fruits. Apples: — 

 Irish peach apple. Paradise Sweeting, Beauty of Wiltz, Jersey sweet, 



