432 Report of the Col. Hort. Soc. Ex. 



" Dtoarf Blue Peas for summer use. Dwarf imperial, * blue Prus- 

 sian, * white Prussian, * Groom's superb dwarf blue." 



We hope that this careful and probably very correct list, will 

 be a guide for all seedsmen in the sale of seed peas. ' 



Art. III. Report of the Committee of Arrangements of the Third 

 Annual Exhibition of the Columbian Horticultural Society, 

 June 8th and 9th, 1836, with the reports of the standing Com- 

 mittees upon the objects exhibited, and those entitled to premium. 

 Pamphlet 8vo, pp. 44. Washington, 1836. 



This report is got up in a style which gives much credit to the 

 society from whence it emanates. It contains a report of the 

 committee of arrangements of the third annual exhibition, in June 

 last, with a full and particular account of the various things ex- 

 hibited. After this come the reports of the several committees 

 on fruits, flowers, vegetables, &c., stating the best specimens 

 that were exhibited, and the award of the premiums to the success- 

 ful competitors. Then follows a recapitulation of all the exhibi- 

 tions held between the second and third annual meetings. The 

 whole of the reports appear to be made up with much care, and 

 the names in most instances spelt correctly, a thing not generally 

 attended to. As we shall give an account of every thing worthy 

 of notice, exhibited, in our December number, we shall refer 

 our readers to that, which will show them how far advanced our 

 southern friends are in horticulture and floriculture. 



The manner in which this report is pubHshed is worthy of 

 imitation by all the horticultural societies in the country. How 

 much better suited to the purposes for which it is intended, and 

 how much more convenient to the amateur is such a report, than 

 the method followed by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 of giving detached accounts in a periodical which, perhaps, few 

 that are interested see, and where, a greater portion of the time, 

 the botanical names of shrubs and flowers are allowed to come 

 before the public so barbarously spelt, that few persons would 

 know what plants they were. Instead of an easy reference, as is 

 the case with this report, the horticulturist or florist has to wade 

 through a voluminous mass of uninteresting matter, spending 

 hours in searching out what information he is in want of, while, if 

 the whole was contained in a pamphlet of forty or fifty pages, he 

 could turn to any part of it in a moment. We certainly hope 

 that such a course will be pursued in future: the whole might be 

 printed and bound in with the annual address, making altogether 

 an interesting and desirable pamphlet to the amateur horticulturist. 



