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Art. V. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 



The Society held its stated meeting at its hall, on the 15th of Feb- 

 ruary. 



The Committee appointed at the stated meeting in January, under 

 the Resolution in regard to new Plants, Flowers, Fruits, and Vege- 

 tables, reported tlie following rules prescribing the limits within 

 which plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables shall be deemed new, 

 within said resolution, and other regulations in regard to that sub- 

 ject. 



Rules of the Committee on new Plants, Flowers, Fruits and Vege- 

 tables, reported under the third Resolution. 



I. Plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables shall be deemed new, with- 

 in the meaning of the Resolution, whether they be new genera, spe- 

 cies, or varieties, provided they have not been known and described 

 in some pul)lic work for more than eighteen months previous to the 

 year, according to the calendar in which they are exhibited, and are 

 exhibited before this Society, at the following times: 1. In the case of 

 plants not in flower — within six months after their first introduction 

 into some collection, garden or field, in the United States: 2. In the 

 case of flowers — at their first flowering after such introduction: 3. In 

 the case of fruits and vegetables — during the first season of their ma- 

 turing after such introduction. 



II. Persons presenting for exhibition any plant, flower, fruit or 

 vegetable, as new, must present to the Committee a statement written 

 and signed, showing — 1. The systematic as well as the English name, 

 the habit, habitation, in the garden, popular character, time of flow- 

 ering, fruiting or ripening, color, size or height: 2. If an exotic, the 

 year of its introduction into the United States; if indigenous to any 

 of the United States, its locality: 3. Its mode of propagation, and 

 appropriate soil: 4. A colored figure or representation, if the Com- 

 mittee shall require it. 



III. The subject shall thereupon be examined by all the Commit- 

 tee who shall be present, and the description shall be referred to a 

 sub-committee of two, who shall be appointed by the chairman, who 

 shall thereupon report to the Committee. 



IV". The Committee shall make its report in writing to the Socie- 

 ty, at the same or the next monthly meeting. 



The Special Committee were directed to contract with the agents 

 of the lessee of the lower saloon of the Philadelphia Museum build- 

 ing, in which to hold their future meetings. 



A great number of plants were exhibited at this meeting. The 

 following is the report of the Committee awarding premiums: — 



For the best ten varieties of camellias, to John Sherwood. For 

 the most interesting collection of plants in pots, to R. Kilvington. 

 For the next best collection of plants in pots, to Alexander Parker. 

 For the liest bouquet, to John Sherwood. For the next best bou- 

 quet, to Robert Kilvington. For the most interesting display of veg- 

 etables, to Jacob Engleman. 



