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we submit the following, from a French provincial dictionary: — 

 Glout — greedy, passionate, to love to excess. We will venture to 

 suggest the signification of Glout rnorceau to be — Jl morsel loved to 

 excess, in preference to ''A greedy mouthful." 



We are under the impression that the term greedy would be more 

 applicable to thejoerson eating, than to the thing eaten; however, we 

 may be all in the wrong, and therefore asain respectfully ask further 

 information from "A Fruit Grower." — Yours, truly, Samuel Walk- 

 er, Roxbury, Sept. 28th, 1842. 



Art. III. Neiv York Horticultural and Floricultural Society. 



[We have been favored with the following report of the first ex- 

 hibition held by this newly organized Society in the city of New 

 York; and on a recent visit to that city, one of the members pre- 

 sented us with a copy of the constitution and bye-laws of the insti- 

 tution. From it we learn, that the Society was instituted last March, 

 and has been in existence little over six months. 



The officers of the Society consist of a President, two Vice Pres- 

 idents, a Treasurer, and a Secretary. The annual election takes 

 place on the second Tuesday in March: meetings are held once a 

 month throughout the year, and other exhibitions on such days as 

 the Society may direct. 



It is some time since the old New York Horticultural Society ceas- 

 ed its operations. A year or two ago, a new society, called the Hor- 

 ticultural Association of the Valley of the Hudson, was organized, 

 and one or two exhibitions were held in New York and Albany — but 

 it seems also to have met the same fate as its predecessor: no meet- 

 ings, we believe, have been held for upwards of a year; and, though 

 we hope it has not been abandoned, yet we fear that the members 

 are too scattered to effect any really important results. New York, 

 however, should not be without a Horticultural Society, and we see 

 no reason why an association, properly conducted, cannot be estab- 

 lished upon a foundation which shall be lasting, and be the means of 

 increasing and disseminating a taste for flowers and fruits. It can- 

 not be that there is a want of able amateurs and gardeners around 

 New York city, to compose such a society: a hearty co-operation is 

 all that is needed, to create the same interest, and awaken the same 

 zeal, which has sustained associations of the same kind in Boston 

 and Philadelphia. We hope our friends will take hold of the mat- 

 ter in good earnest, and not allow any feelings of a personal consid- 

 eration to deter them from pursuing an onward course. Let their 

 motto, like that of the late Mr. Knight, be— "We have persevered; 

 we will persevere." 



We hope some of our friends will furnish us with a list of officers 

 for the current year. — Ed.] 



