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ply a very good cherry ; he has eaten it day after day, and he states that he 

 considers it inferior to a very common cherry brought into Hartford and 

 sold under the name of the Rocky Hill Honey-heart, a native variety, orig- 

 inated near Wethersfield, eighty years ago. Coe's Transparent is classed 

 next to the Downer, " the finest American cherry:" some amateurs around 

 Boston prefer Sparhawk's Honey-heart to the Downer, though both, in our 

 estimation, have few equals. The varieties of cherries are so confused that 

 we think few cultivators can really know what sorts are the best The 

 Black Eagle has been classed, this year, among the best which have been 

 shown here, and has been awarded one of the special prizes of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society. We have plenty of delicious cherries, and 

 unless the new sorts much surpass them in size, we think it quite useless to 

 encumber our catalogues with their names. — Ed. 



Art. IV. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Satxirday, August 7, 1817. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was 

 held to-day, — the President in the chair. 



Mr. C. M. Hovey read a letter from E. Beck, Esq., Isleworth, near 

 London, corresponding member, presenting to the Society, through him, 

 the liberal sum of £1 sterling, to be appropriated as prizes for pelargo- 

 niums, as follows : — 



" I wish to place at the disposal of the Committee, seven pounds sterling, 

 to form two prizes for pelargoniums for 1848. Five pounds and two pounds 

 for the best and second best exhibition of six plants of the most dissimilar 

 varieties, cultivated with superior skill in eight-inch pots, open to all. 



The thanks of the society were voted to Mr. Beck for his liberal donation, 

 and the Corresponding Secretary was authorized to send Mr. Beck a copy 

 of the vote. 



Voted, That the Corresponding Secretary be requested to prepare and 

 forward a letter of condolence to the family of their late Vice President, Jon- 

 athan Winship, Esq. 



Mr. C. Downing, Newburgh, N. Y., presented the Society a bound 

 copy of the 1st volume of the Horticulturist. 



Voted, That the thanks of the Society be presented Mr. Downing for 

 the same. 



The following gentlemen were elected members : — James Lloyd, Thomas 

 Briers, John Albree, Joseph N. Howe, Boston ; Thomas Leighton, Jr., 

 William Leighton, Cambridge. , 



Adjourned two weeks to August 21st. 



Exhibited. — Flowers : From the President of the Society, four plants 

 of JLilium lancitolium album, and one seedling; seven plants of Fuchsias, 

 viz. : Mrs. Frederick Millbank, flesh-colored sepals and rosy lilac corolla, 

 Cleopatra, flesh-colored sepals, crimson and scarlet corolla, new, large 

 flower ; Sir Henry Pottinger, flesh sepals tipped with green, purple crim- 

 son corolla ; Exoniensis, and Lady of the Lake ; also Gloxinia sup6rba, 



