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Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. — Our third meeting of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society took place in our new room in 

 the Museum, and the attendance was even more numerous than ev- 

 er. The accession to our number is immense. The large room was 

 full of the beauty and fashion of our city, not merely as spectators, 

 but as amateurs, from the interest they took in examining the many 

 fine flowers exhibited. As usual, the plants were tastefully arrang- 

 ed, and had a fine effect. The vegetables were objects of much ex- 

 amination from their general superiority. The mammoth rhubarb 

 and the cauliflowers, exhibited by Mr. Engleman, were uncommon- 

 ly large; the rhubarb was upwards of five feet in height, and the 

 cauliflowers were exceerlingly large and tempting. Col. Case exhib- 

 ited a bunch of the butorice rhubarb, upwards of five feet high, and 

 thick in the stem; it is a fine variety: indeed the whole of the vegeta- 

 bles did great credit to the gardeners; an improvement in growing 

 vegetables is increasing yearly. The flower tables exhibited contain- 

 ed many very fine specimens and showy flowers; we noticed Wil- 

 liam Chalmers, gardener to Mrs. Stott, had a fine variety, and justly 

 obtained the first premium. He exhibited the Schizanthus diffusa, 

 upwards of six feet hiirh, covered over with its beautiful butter- 

 fly looking flowers; a Clarkm elegans rosea, seven feet hiiih, loaded 

 with flowers; a Mahernm pinnata var. coccinea; Fuschi'a Standishw; 

 F. carnea, a very fine variety; iberis coronata, calceolaria Wid- 

 nall's Meteor; Collinsj'agrandiflora; and a fine annual, covered with 

 its delicate pink flowers; Godetia veniista. These are a few that 

 we noticed as being very fine. The tulips exhibited by R. Kirk- 

 wood, gardener to Mrs. Roland, were very fine. Mr. Buist had 

 Azalea lateritia in flower, a fine variety, and another, the name of 

 which I do not know. — Yours, Jin Amateur. 



Mr. Perry^s collection of Plants for sale. — We learn from our 

 correspondents in New York, that the elegant residence of J. W. 

 Perry, of Brooklyn, together with the plants &c., is offered for sale. 

 Some noble specimens of palms are in his collection, and we hope 

 they will be purchased by some gentleman who will erect a house 

 for their exclusive growth. — Ed. 



New xonrk on Cottage Residences. — We are gratified to announce 

 to our readers, that our correspondent, Mr. A. J. Downing, whose 

 excellent treatise on landscaj>e gardening we reviewed in our last 

 volume, has now nearly ready for publication a new work on cottage 

 residences. It will be handsomely illustrated, and will contain not 

 only views and plans of cottajes and cottage villas, but also descrip- 

 tions and details of the architecture and the grounds &.c. Such a 

 work is much needed, and will undoul)tedly meet with a ready sale, 

 and contribute to the spread of a better taste for villa residences. 



We perceive that Mr. Downing has lately had the honor of 

 being elected corresponding member of the Royal Botanic Gar- 

 dening Society of Berlin, and the Royal Botanical Society of 

 London. — Ed. 



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