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feet long, and eighteen wide. It was not finished until late 

 in the season, and all the interior carpentry had not yet 

 been put up. The plants, however, have been removed from 

 the old house, and partially arranged, and show to good ad- 

 vantage, the whole being in excellent health. The house is 

 heated with hot water, circulating in cast iron pipes, and a 

 square wrought iron boiler ; it has also an extra furnace and 

 flue, to be used, if needed, in very severe weather. 



We are happy to record these improvements, as they tend 

 to show the increasing taste for horticulture in our vicinity; 

 and we are gratified to see such thorough and substantial 

 green- houses erected, instead of the mere shells which are too 

 often considered as sufficiently well adapted to all the pur- 

 poses of cultivation, setting aside their entire want of neat- 

 ness and general appearance. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, Feb. 1th, 1846. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was 

 held fo-day, — the President in the chair. 



The President stated to the Society, that through the liberality of an in- 

 dividual, deeply interested in horticulture, the sum of three hundred dollars 

 has been placed at their disposal, to be awarded as premiums for choice 

 varieties of fruit. The thanks of the Society were voted for this very 

 liberal donation, and the subject referred to the Fruit committee, to report a 

 schedule of premiums, with a view to carry out the object of the donation. 



A letter was read from Edward Pitkin, East Hartford, Ct., communicat- 

 ing a remedy for the disease known as the excrescence on the plum tree ; it 

 was referred to the Fruit committee to report upon the same. 



Adjourned one week, to February 14th. 



Feb. lith. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day, — the 

 President in the chair. 



Mr. Walker, chairman of the Fruit Committee, made the following report 

 in relation to the donation given to the Society : — 



Whereas, a liberal individual, interested in the science of horticulture, 

 has placed at the disposal of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the 

 sum of three hundred dollars, to be awarded in premiums for fruits, at such 

 times and in such a manner as the Society may deem expedient, with the 

 understanding that a condensed list, to be called " the Special Prize List of 

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