152 Domestic JVotices. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Domestic Notices. 



Horticulture in Philadelphia. — The progress of horticulture in our 

 city is onward; the new Horticultural Society is increasing rapidly, 

 so that we have upwards of eight hundred members, ladies and gen- 

 tlemen, and increasing monthly. We have taken that large room 

 lately occupied by the Chinese Museum, so that we have ample 

 space for our monthly meetings, as well as our annual exhibitions. 

 Last Tuesday was the first meeting held there, which was filled with 

 the beauty and fashion of the city. Great credit is due to our practi- 

 cal gardeners for the taste displayed in the arrangement of the tables, 

 comprising a great many beautiful and valuable flowers. Mr. Robert 

 Buist had some fine large hybrid rhododendrons, camellias and aza- 

 leas. Mr. Peter Mackenzie had a fine show of camellias and twenty 

 seedling varieties of azaleas of the finest kinds. Mr. Pepper's table of 

 camellias was very fine, and justly gained the first prize. Mr. John 

 Sherwood had some fine camellias; we noticed a very large and fine 

 specimen of C. Floyw. Landreth & Fulton had some fine specimens 

 of camellia. Robert Kilvington had some fine plants of various 

 kinds. Ritchie & Dick had some large specimens of camellias; we 

 noticed a very fine flower on the last year's seedling camellia, (C- 

 var. Hempsteadzz,) much improved from what we saw it at first. 

 Alexander Parker likewise contributed largely to the exhibition of the 

 evening. — Yours, Jin Jlmateur, March, 1842. 



The Jlngora Pear. — There is a pear in the French Catalogues very 

 highly praised for its great size and beauty; it is called by the French 

 nurserymen the Angora. I have received letters from several persons 

 in New York and Pennsylvania, requesting to know if I had any 

 knowledge of this pear. Will you please say in your next, that I re- 

 ceived a tree of this kind from France, and proved it to be the Catil- 

 lac; which still continues to be sold by the French nurserymen as the 

 Forty-Ounce pear. — Respectfully yours, Robert Manning, Salem, 

 March 8, 1842. 



Specimen pears. — Some of the specimens sent you last fall were 

 sent after many selections had been made, always of the largest fruits, 

 which accounts for some of your figures being so small. In describ- 

 ing the new pears, I should have said, that they grew on very poor 

 land, and are not more than half the size they would obtain in rich 

 soil. — Id. 



Horticulture in Kentucky. — A taste for horticulture is fast taking 

 hold here in the West, and, though very far behind our eastern and 

 northern friends, yet by their aid and example we hope to make great 

 progress. I have been for several years improving my residence 

 with all the hardy ornamental shrubs and trees, that I thought would 

 suit our climate, and have now one among the best private collections 

 in this region, (of course always excepting a few in Louisville.) Yet 

 when I remember all I saw on a visit to your city and other Atlan- 

 tic cities, in the summer and fall of 1838, I am almost ashamed to 

 mention my scanty collection; yet all things must have a beginning 

 is my encouragement. — E. D. H., Feb. 23, 1842. 



