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Bases and Seedling Chrysanthemums. — Our late blooming roses are also 

 exceedingly fine, better than I ever saw before ; and although the forests 

 have turned brovi'n and are fast shedding their leaves, the garden is very 

 gay with chrysanthemums, marigolds, zinnias, thunbergias, &c. By the 

 way, we beat you all hollow in chrysanthemums. Mr. Waddel has some 

 very superior seedlings. I intend to prepare some notice of our gardening 

 operations " in these diggins" for your annual review, if I can get time, 

 and my lame shoulder will allow me to write. — Respectfully, yours, M. A. 

 Ward, Athens, Ga., Nov. 1847. 



Rhode Island Horticultural Society. — The second annual exhibi- 

 tion of this society was held at Hoppin's Hall, No. 33 Westminster street, 

 on the 29th and 30th of September last. The reports of the several com- 

 mittees upon fruits, flowers and vegetables, showing a schedule and descrip- 

 tion of the articles exhibited, and the premiums awarded, have been sent to 

 us, and we have endeavored to find room for their insertion. We have, 

 however, condensed them somewhat, leaving out the names of the fruits 

 exhibited by persons from other places, as they will be found in the list of 

 sorts exhibited at the last annual show of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society. 



Fruits: By L. C. Eaton, North Providence: R. I. Greening, American 

 Nonpareil, Lyscom, Northern Stripe, American Golden Russet, Ramsdell's 

 Sweeting, Meadow Greening, Pearmain Russet, Tolman Sweeting, Porter, 

 Reddock, Baldwin, Winter Seedling, Nonsuch, Detroit, Bell Flower 

 Sweet (unknown), Jacob, Lady, Striped (unknown), Pie, Black, House 

 Sweeting, Gilliflower, Fall Sops of Wine, Peck's Pleasant, Forbidden 

 Fruit, Hubbardston Nonsuch, and American Russet apples of 1846 ; Seckel, 

 Williams's Bon Chretien, Bezi de la l\Iotte, Napoleon, Beurr6 de Cap- 

 iaumont, Knight's Seedling, Louise Bonne de Jersey, and unknown pears ; 

 five varieties peaches, unknown ; Native, Hamburgh, Golden Chasselas, 

 Muscadine, and Isabella grapes ; Orange, Portugal, and Pear quinces ; two 

 kinds of watermelons. 



By Stephen H. Smith, Smithfield, President of the Society : French 

 Nonpariel, Clark, Blue Pearmain, American Nonpareil, Honey Greening, 

 Yellow Harvey, Winter Harvey, White Seek-no-Further, R. I. Greening, 

 Marigold, Newtown Pippin, Sprague, Maiden's Blush, Tolman Sweeting, 

 White Spanish Reinette, Lady, Queen Anne, Nonsuch, 'Red Seek-no- 

 Further, Waterman Sweeting, Roxbury Russet, Peck's Pleasant, Brook, 

 Dartmouth Sweeting, Baldwin, Esten, and Ribstone Pippin apples; St. 

 Michael's, Cumberland, Seckel, Capsheaf, Passe Colmar, Beurr6 d'Arem- 

 berg, Beurr6 Diel, Wilkinson, and Ananas pears; Native (Blackstone) 

 grapes ; Minorca melons. 



By Marshall P. Wilder, President Mass. Hort. Society, 35 varieties of 

 pears. By Samuel Walker, Roxbury, 25 varieties of pears. 



By Madam Ives, R. I. Greening, Baldwin, French Nonpareil, and Un- 

 known apples; Passe Colmar, Buffum, Williams's Bon Chretien, Duchesse 

 d'Angouleme, Seckel, and unknown pears. Thomas Carpenter, Cumberland, 

 Roxbury Russets, Peck's Pleasant, R. I. Greening, Black Gilliflower, and 



