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es, of a new variety. A Seven years' pumpkin, from Elisha Hark- 

 ness. But one solitary specimen of the common pumpkin was sent 

 in for exhibition, and that was a i^ooil one hy Hall Barton. Bela 

 Carpenter, of Woodstock, Ct., exhibited a crookneck squash, raised 

 in 1841, which appeared in sood order, and looked as if it might be 

 kept another year. From D. S. Messinger, two dishes of that ex- 

 cellent, and now very generally used article, the red and yellow to- 

 mato. Handsome silver skinned Chenango potatoes, from C. W. 

 Rockwell, Esq., Norwich. Several varieties of fit-Id corn, (all of 

 which was good,) from Levi A. Uowley, Hall Barton, and John 

 Clai)p. Egg plant and fiourds, from Taft Foster. Fine s[)ecimens 

 of the Sugar beet, mangel wurtzel, yellow carrot, silver skinned on- 

 ion, early red onion, and Dutton corn, grown on the grounds of the 

 State Lunatic Hospital. (fVorcesler Spy.) 



Horticultural Exhibition of the New York State Agri- 

 cultural Society. — This exhibition was held at Albany, in the last 

 week in September, and from the reports of the judges awarding 

 premiums, there apyjears to have been a fine display of flowers, fruits, 

 &c. Owing to want of room, we are compelled to condense these 

 reports as much as possible. The dahlias were cut oft' by the early 

 frosts. 



Flowers. — The second floral show of the Society was held on the 

 28th and 29th days of Sejjtember, in the spacious building erected 

 expressly for the exhibition of the products of the garden and the 

 farm, on the Show ground. 



The committee could scarcely have been furnished with a more 

 suitable or better located building, to accommodate the immense 

 multitude in constant attendance. 



On entering the Hall, the rich groups of native and exotic plants, 

 tastefully arranged and decorated, aftorded a pleasing coup d' ceil; an 

 appropriate and beautiful garnish to the fruit and vegetable inmates 

 of this vast arena. 



Among the most striking of the green-house plants, were some 

 fine speciinens of ^Scacia puiiescens, Ji. decurrens, c^'ster argophyl- 

 lus, Azalea lateritia, Mamillaria acanthrophlegma, Camelh'a japon- 

 ica var. [)hiladelphica, C. Bealii, Chordzema varium, Chironta decus- 

 sata, Citrus medica six inches high, in fruit, C. nobilis or JVIandarin 

 orange, Diosma rubra, D. ericoides, -firica polytrichifdiia from the 

 green-house of JMr. L. Menard, who also contributed some thirty 

 plants, of which we would notice Maniillaria Chemknii, M. discolor, 

 M. scopa, M. cerifera, Echinocactus cornigera, E. elaucus, Cereus 

 Dep|iM, C. RusselhVt/ms, Opuntia pulvinata, Calothamnus villosa, 

 CamelU'fl! japonica var. fimbriata, C. soudjricata, C. nobilissinui no- 

 va, C. AlltertMs, Gladiolus ramo^us, Melaleuca fulgens, Metrosideros 

 crassifolia, Polvffala cordata, Buddica madagascariensis, JGrythrina 

 crista L'aHi, Hoirzm coccinea, J^Lschynanthus grandiflora. Fuchsia 

 corymbiflora, F. YoueiU', F. gloliosa, F. grandiflora, F'. Standishu', 

 Calceolaria ruL'osa var. meteor, Manettza cordiColia, Weliotropiuni 

 intermedium, Pimelea decussata. These, [)laced on the extensive 

 central table, sun'oumled by numberless bou(]iiets of choice cut flow- 

 ers, redolent with the most jjleasing odors, from the grounds of 

 Messrs Jackson, Heartt, Downing, Van Rensselaer, Warren, Bur- 

 den, WUson, Buel, Thorburn, Walsh, &c. 



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