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The Committee on Flowers were requested to take special notice of the 

 seedling camellias exhibited this day. Adjourned one week, to Feb. 21. 



Exhibited. — Flowers : From the President, twenty varieties of camellias, 

 without foliage, among which were Palmer's Perfection, Duchess of Or- 

 leans, Fordw', Hume's blush, Floyn, imbricata, ^legans, &c. &c., and six 

 fine seedlings, including Wilder/', oneof them a remarkably beautiful flower, 

 very much like Feastw. We shall notice them again. From Messrs. 

 Hovey & Co., cut flowers, with foliage, of fourteen varieties of camellias, 

 viz : <^legans, imbricata, rubra plena, conspicua, (of the French,) Floyn, im- 

 bricata, alba plena, myrtifolia, Landrdthn, Chandlen', Goussonta, eclipse, 

 Fordw, and C. reticulata. From Mr. Quant, a variety of double whites, 

 Hume's blush, and other kinds of camellias ; also very fine white and purple 

 Chinese primroses. From W. E. Carter, a variety of camellias, including 

 some seedlings, and flowers of Acacia dealbata. 



Camellias. — The exhibition for premium took place to-day, and the fol- 

 lowing is the report of the judges : — 



To Messrs. Hovey, for the best display of fine flowers, a gratuity of $5. 



To Mr. Quant, for the second best, a gratuity of $4. 



To Mr. Carter, for the third best, a gratuity of $3. 



The premiums offered, were for plants in pots, but this regulation not 

 having been complied with, gratuities only could be given. 



Feb. 2\st. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day. — The 

 President in the chair. 



Printed copies of the by-laws were laid upon the table for the use of 

 members ; it was voted that they be taken up for discussion on Saturday, 

 March 7th. 



The President stated, that the family of the late Robert Manning, had 

 fulfilled their part of the agreement made in 1843, and it was voted, that the 

 Society pay over to the heirs of Mr. Manning, the sum of two hundred and 

 fifty dollars, agreeably to a vote of the Society, at that time. 



Mr. Walker, Chairman of the Fruit Committee, made the following 

 report : — 



The Committee on Fruits, in accordance with a vote of the Society, re- 

 ferring to them the expediency of awarding a Special Premium to the 

 Messrs. Hovey, of Boston, for their superior strawberry, well known as 

 " Hovey^s Seedling," beg leave to report, that they have attended to the 

 duty assigned to them, and, after due deliberation, 



Voted, unanimously, To recommend to the Society, that a Silver Pitch 

 ER, or other piece of plate, with a suitable inscription, of the value of Fifty 

 Dollars, be awarded to the Messrs. Hovey, as a Special Premium, for their 

 seedling strawberry, called ^^ Hovey'' s Seedling." 



Here it would be the duty of your Committee to close their report, but in 

 the present instance they feel they may be pardoned, if not justified, in fur- 

 ther stating, THAT AFTER A TRIAL OF TWELVE YEARS, they kuOW of nO 



Strawberry of superior merit, and where it is cultivated near other varieties, 

 it will prove one of the best where all are good. For the Committee, 

 Boston. Feb. Slst, 1846 Sam'l Walkeb, Chairman. 



