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of Chorizema varium was just pushing into full iiower. 

 Two fine large plants of Lechenaultia formosa, over a foot 

 high, were loaded with their brilliant flowers. 



Several other plants we noted down on our memoranda, 

 but we have not room to mention them all at this time. 

 Some of the new dahlias had just been received. Among 

 them Essex Triumph, Virgil and others of first-rate beauty. 

 We should not fail to speak of the beauty of the schizanthus, 

 which Mr. Wilder's gardener is very successful in cultivating. 

 A great number of plants, 4 to 6 feet high, were covered 

 with a profusion of its delicate and beautiful flowers. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Domestic A'bfices. 



The Progress of Horticultural Improvement j'/i Cincinnati, Ohio. — You 

 have no doubt observed by the Cincinnati papers that a Horticultural 

 Society is at length fornied in this city. This has been done with the 

 most flattering prospects of success ; it has been, and is, met by our intel- 

 ligent cultivators, amateurs and citizens, in a way which cannot fail to 

 produce beneficial results, not only to this region but to the whole coun- 

 try. The means for usefulness here are extensive ; it is a field in which 

 we shall find ample employment ; which will require diligence, prudence, 

 perseverance and steadiness of purpose, to bring out its hidden riches ; 

 great care will especially be required on the subject of fruits, as tliis is in 

 a complete state of derangement, although tliere is no country in the 

 world where it is found in greater quantity or of finer flavor and quality. 

 This arises from various causes ; the most fruitful source of this derange- 

 ment is the fact, that the Western people, although by no means deficient 

 in good taste, have been obliged to devote their whole time to tlie pursuit 

 of their various professions, and it is only very recently that there have 

 been gentlemen of means and leisure to devote themselves to this subject. 

 Indeed, when we take into view the fact tliat scarcely half a century has 

 elapsed since this whole region was a howling wilderness, in tlie peace- 

 able possession of the noble red man, unmolested in his pursuit of his 

 game, we shall be surprised at what has been accomplished. To syste- 

 matize, classify and identify the various fruits which have been introduced 

 from abroad, and to collect and trace to undoubted sources all valuable 

 seedling fruits, will be one prominent object of the Society. This will 

 of course require great diligence, and must necessarily be slow in its pro- 

 cess.. It is gratifying to meet with so general a response in this effort 

 from gentlemen of intelligence abroad, where united action is so essential 

 to a carrying out the liberal objects of the Society in promoting the pub- 

 lic good. 



