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Art. II, Report of the Committee of Arrangements of the Se- 

 cond Annual Exhibition of the Columbian Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, June 10th and ll^A, 1835, with the Reports of the Stand- 

 ing- Committees, upon the Objects exhibited, and those entitled to 

 Premium. Pamphlet, 8vo. pp. 28, Washington City, 1835. 



This pamphlet, which we have been kindly favored with, 

 is filled with a variety of interesting matter, relative to the 

 objects which were presented at the annual exhibition in 

 June, 1835. The reports of the committees on fruits, flow- 

 ers and vegetables, are annexed, and the amount given in 

 premiums exceeds two hundred dollars. We are extremely 

 happy to perceive that the ladies of Washington take such 

 a prominent part in the exhibition. No less than twenty- 

 five contributions of various kinds of flowers were made, 

 and upwards of twelve prizes carried off by them. If the 

 ladies of other cities, towns and villages, were to manifest 

 the same, zeal, in this most innocent pursuit, we should soon 

 have the gratification of beholding societies springing up in 

 every part of the country, and the influence they would ex- 

 ert in creating a taste for gardening, would be most wonder- 

 ful. We are much pleased to notice the attention which is 

 given to culinary vegetables ; too little has been done by 

 our horticultural societies to improve this most useful and im- 

 portant branch of gardening, too important to suffer the neg- 

 lect which it has hitherto received. We hope it will command 

 more attention in future. 



Annexed is a list of the officers and members of the society. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



Insect Plant. — The following account of a most singular and extraor- 

 dinary phenomena in Natural History, we extract from a Southern pa- 

 per: for the truth of the same we cnnnot vouch; hut it comes to us in 

 such a manner, that we cannot hardly douht its correctness. A fij^ure of 

 the insect plant appeared in the .January number of the American Mag- 

 azine, copied, it was said, from a preserved specimen. It must he a most 

 sinirular curiosity. — "A specimen of a natural production was shown us 

 a few evenings since, that is neither fish nor flesh, beast nor bird, animal, 

 vegetable nor mineral! It was procured in Plymouth, North Carolina, 

 and brought to this city in a glass of alcohol. The thing, for it is with- 

 out a name, is both entomological and vegetable. When its entomologU 

 eal nature commences, and when its vegetable character has arrived at 

 maturity, its entomological character developes itself and its vegetable ex- 



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