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other season to be able to furnish accounts of the exhibition of ecery 

 horticultural and floricultural society in the country. The present ar- 

 ticle will not be so complete as we had anticipated, in consequence of 

 our not receiving any accounts from several societies, which have had 

 their annual exhibition this fall. It requires considerable labor and at- 

 tention to make them up properly, and unless we have returns in sea- 

 son, we cannot promise their appearance. 



Columbian Horticultural Society, Washington. — August 8th, 1835. 

 From June to this date. Fruits: From A. Lindsay, a seedling apple. 

 From J. A. Smith, English codling apples. Red Juneating, summer 

 red-streak and summer pearmain apples from R. Barnard. Vegetables: 

 A drumhead cabbage weighing fourteen pounds six ounces, from J. 

 O'Grady. Fruit of the purple egg-plant, weighing four pounds five 

 ounces. 



September bth. Brown beurre and Seckel pears from J. A. Smith, 

 Seckel and other pears were also exhibited. Vegetables: squashes, 

 cabbages, sweet potatoes and other vegetables, by various members of 

 the society; the fruit of the purple egg-plant was very large. One 

 pumpkin weighed twenty-three and a half pounds. 



October 3d. — Fruils: A. Lindsay exhibited, Catawba, Roman plum, 

 Mississippi and white Chasselas grapes. Joshua Pierce, Catawba 

 grajjes. Specimens of several kinds of apples from various membei's. 

 Vegetables: fruit of the purple egg-plant, weighing five pounds: turnip- 

 beet, weighing four pounds: large margel wurtzel, cocoa-nut squash, 

 &c., from H. F. Camp. Brocolis, potatoes, four varieties of radishes, 

 sweet peppers, and turnips: also a pumpkin weighing forty pounds, 

 cocoa-nut squash twenty-two pounds, and a Canadian squash twenty- 

 two pounds, J. A Smith. From J. Pierce, Scotch Kale, cabbages, very 

 large, white and black radishes. Celery, one head three feet in 

 length, wei'/hing three pounds four ounces. 



At the Fall Exhibition, November 7th, 1835, for delivering the prizes, 

 awarded to the meml)ers, a great number of excellent specimens oF 

 vegetables were exhibited. The following we have condensed from the 

 society's report: — 



" This exhibition, the first autumnal one the society has had, though 

 got up after a few days' notice, and consequently in great haste, was in 

 a high degree gratifying, from the variety, beauty, and magnitude of 

 the productions of the vegetable kingdom exhibited. The season had, 

 indeed, been very favorable, but there was still an evident improvement 

 in every product of the garden, since the establishment of the society. 

 Among the cabbage tribe of various kinds, all large and fine, brought 

 by Messrs. Douglas, Pierce, Smith, Cammack, Wilson, &c., was one 

 from the garden of the first named, which weighed thirty-one and a 

 quarter pounds, and one brought by Mr. J. A. Smith, which contained 

 four distinct heads, well formed, and of considerable size. Some of 

 the radishes were monsters, and the celery, cauliflowers, cardoons, tur- 

 nips, beets, parsnips, pumpkins, &c. were very large and perfect. 

 Among the latter was one raised l^y Mrs. Whitney, near Georgetown, 

 which weighed ninety-nine pounds, and measured six feet in circumfer- 

 ence. The beautiful floral pyramids, composed of chrysanthemums, 

 interspersed with dahlias, roses, heartsease, &c., and formed by Mr. 

 Douglas, decorated the table in front of the President's chair, and 

 some fine exotics from the collections of Dr. Gunnell, Mr. Suter, Mr. 

 Douglas, and others, and a number of beautiful garden flowers, orna- 

 mented one of the side tables. Among the former were the tea-plant 

 in bloom, the phylica, and a specimen of the white camellia, with a 

 splendid flower. There was also a considerable collection of fruity 

 chiefly from the orchards of Mr. Barnard and Mr. Smiths 



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