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onions, 2 lbs. each, fine celery, carrots, beets, &.c. Mr. Francis Briell 

 exhibited fine blood beet, turnip beet, long white beet, Victoria and 

 Mammoth rhubarb, five stalks of the latter weighing 6 lbs. A brace 

 of fine cucumbers, measurinff seventeen inches, from Mr, Thomas 

 Galvin, gardener to William B. Cozzens, Esq. Tomatoes, from Mr. 

 E. E. Dean. Large Bull-nose peppers, four weiiihing 1 lb. from Dr. 

 Doane, Staten Island. Onions, six weighing 2 lbs., from Mr. Ed- 

 ward Hobbs. Victoria rhuiiarb, tVom Mr. Livingston, &c. 



A large table, filled with cacti and other curious plants, presented 

 a singular appearance, and were justly admired. Mr. J. Buchanan 

 exhibited Cereus senilis, C. multangularis, Echinocactus EyriesiV, and 

 other species, Mesembryanthemum tigrinum, M. truncabillum, M. 

 monanthe, -Euphorbia eneagoua, E. s|)lendens, &c. Mr. Thomas 

 Hogg exhibited Cereus senilis, C. cliiliensis, C. peruvianus, Melo- 

 cactus amoB^na, Opuntia microdysas, O. lactea spina, O. cochinillife- 

 ra, Mamillaria chrysacantha, M. Schmannw', M. longimamma, M. un- 

 cinata, M. cerifera, Echinocactus latispina, E. Eyriesw, &c. Mr. 

 Alexander Smith exhibited Mamillkria Schmannu, M. uncinata, Ce- 

 reus senilis, and several new species not named. 



The saloon was most profusely decorated with bouquets, festoons, 

 and cut flowers. Mr. Joseph Meister, of Harlaem, exhibited a very 

 large and beautiful bouquet. Mr. John B. Mantel exhibited a large 

 pyramid of flowers, arranged with great taste. Mrs. Bulow exhibit- 

 ed a splendid bouquet, consisting of tuberose, tiger flowers, and oth- 

 er choice flowers; also a basket of fine dahlias. Although the con- 

 tributors were not very many, yet the exhibition was managed with 

 great spirit, and showed the increasing taste for such displays. 



Art. IV. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, October 1, 1842. — The annual meeting of the Society 

 for choice of oflicers for the ensuing year, was held to-day — the 

 President in the chair. The Committee appointed at the last meet- 

 ing, to nominate a list of oflicers, reported the same upon a printed 

 ticket, agreeably to the vote of the Society, requesting them, that 

 if they found it expedient, the name of no member should ap- 

 pear on more than one committee: the report was accepted, and 

 laid upon the table for distribution. 



The meeting then proceeded to ballot: Messrs French and Macon- 

 dry were appointed a committee to sort and count the votes: the polls 

 remained open five minutes, after which the whole number of votes 

 was reported as thirty-seven — and the following gentlemen were 

 elected for the ensuing year — the term of office commencing with 

 the first Saturday in April, 1843, and ending the first Saturday in 

 April, 1844. 



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