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and plant-rooms, which are attached to private dwellings, we cannot fail to 

 be convinced that united action only is wanting to bring into prominent view 

 the existing floral wealth amongst us. And the vicinity of the city, with its 

 sisters of Brooklyn and Williamsburgh, and, hardly more removed, Jersey 

 City and Newark, with the rivers running to the North and East studded 

 ■with the seats of those devoted to rural pursuits, emulating, in their zeal, 

 the inhabitants of Stalen and Long Islands, presents a field of horticultural 

 prosperity certainly unequalled in any part of the United States. Con- 

 scious, therefore, of sufficient strength, determined to go on, confident of 

 the support of a people always ready to aid a public enterprise, and trust- 

 ing that the plan may meet with approbation, the Association submits, 

 through the Executive Committee, the following scheme of its contemplated 

 operations." 



We are glad to learn that another attempt has been made to organize a 

 society in New York, for, as the Committee state, ihere is no want of en- 

 ergy or enterprise, either among the professional cultivators or amateurs 

 around the city, and united action is only necessary to carry out all they 

 propose. With such gentlemen as Messrs. Bradish, Frelinghuysen, Len- 

 ox, Bell and others, as the Executive Committee, and such active mem- 

 bers as Messrs- Thorburn, Reid, Hogg, Dunlap, Smith, &c., w-e cannot 

 doubt of success. We shall endeavor to give a brief report of the exhibi- 

 tion. 



Individuals sending plants from a distance are notified that Mr. James 

 Hogg, 562 Broadway, will take charge of them. — Ed. 



Liberal Donation to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. — We are 

 happy to announce another liberal donation to this institution of $500 by 

 Josiah Bradlee, Esq., the amount to be added to the permanent fund for 

 premiums on flowers and fruits. Mr. Bradlee has already presented the 

 Society with two beautiful China roses, and we are glad to record this addi- 

 tional act of munificence for the promotion of a science which contributes 

 so much to the public good. — Ed. 



Osage Orange {Macliir^ Aurantiaca). — Messrs. J. F. Dair & Co., of 

 Cincinnati, have been successful in introducing for sale, from the native 

 forests of the Far West, a great quantity of the seed of this beautiful tree, 

 •which we, years ago (Vol. IL p. 9), recommended as a valuable hedge 

 plant, especially south of New York. Around Boston, it has not been found 

 hardy, only in some very dry and cool northern exposures. As a general 

 hedge plant in the latitude of 42° north, it will, we fear, never answer the 

 expectations of cultivators. But where it stands the winter freely, it makes 

 one of the most beautiful screens or hedges, its glossy and deep-green foli- 

 age having all the elegance of the orange tree. Messrs. Hovey & Co. sup- 

 plied J. P. Cushing, F,sq., of Waiertown, with plants for a hedge in 1839 or 

 '40, but, notwithstanding every care has been taken with it, it is yet small 

 and gaps have been made in it from the destructive effects of severe frosts. 

 To our friends around New York and Philadelphia, we would highly rec- 

 ommend the osage orange. — Ed. 



Exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. — The first public 



