Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Ill 



Resolved, That a committee of five members be now appointed, 

 and annually appointed hereafter in the month of January, to be 

 called the Committee on New Plants, Flowers, Fruits, and Ves^eta- 

 liles, whose duty it shall be to examine all new plants, flowers, 

 fruits, and vej^etables, exhibited at the stated meetings of this Soci- 

 ety, or at their exhibitions, and at the same meeting or at the next 

 monthly meeting of the Society to report the botanical name and 

 description, and the appearance and merit of the respective speci- 

 mens exhibited. And annually, at the stated meeting in December, 

 the said Committee shall report to the Society the premium award- 

 ed by them under the premium list for the specimens so exhibited, 

 and the name of the person to whom the same is awarded. 



Resolved, That all such reports shall from time to time be publish- 

 ed among the transactions of the Society. 



Resolved, That said Committee be instructed to report such rules 

 as they may deem necessary to declare the limits within which a 

 plant, flower, fruit, or vegetable shall be deemed new, within the 

 preceding resolutions. 



By apj)ointineiit, ad interim, of the President, the said Committee 

 COiisists of tlie following named gentlemen: — 



Commiltee on Neio Plants, Sfc. — Horace Binncy, John B. Smith, 

 Thomas Landreth, Thom;is P. James, Dr. Gavin Watson. 



Mr. Binupy then |)roposed the followiugas a substitute for the last 

 premium offered on the schedule of premiums for 1842, which was 

 unnnimously adopted : — 



For the introduction and exhibition before the Society of new and 

 valuable plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables during the year 1842, 

 a premium or premiums not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of 

 one hundred dollars, at the discretion of a standing Committee ap- 

 pointed for that pur|)ose. 



A fmther amendment as follows: — 



Any person to whom a premium has been or may hereafter be 

 awarded to the amount of two dollars and upwards, shall be enti- 

 tled, at his option, to receive in lieu thereof an honorary certificate 

 of merit from the society. {Societifs Report.) 



[The total of the Society's schedule of premiums for 1842 is up- 

 wards of six hundred dollars. We are glad to see this society set 

 so commendable an example of liberalit}', and it should be followed 

 by every horticultural society in the country which wishes to con- 

 tinue in a state of |)rosperity and be instrimiental in disseminating a 

 taste for gardening pursuits. If the Massachusetts Horticidtural 

 Society were to extend their jiremiums in the same manner, we are 

 certain it would produce the most satisfactory results. 



Were the schedide not so long as to occupy four or five pages, v/e 

 should be |)leased to give it entire. The highest ])remium offered is 

 twenty dollars, for the most appropriate design of cut flowers: others 

 are, ten dollars for the twelve best ever-blooming roses in pots; ten 

 dollars for the best fifty varieties of dahlias; ten dollars for the best 

 ten camellias, 8tc.;aii(l one hundred dollars approjiriated as pre- 

 miums for new and valuable plants exhibited during the year 1842. 

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