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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, Feb. 28th, 1846. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was 

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



The President, from the executive committee, reported that the sum 

 agreed upon had been paid to the estate of Mr. Manning, and an endorse- 

 ment made upon agreement, signed by Mrs. Manning and lier son, R. 

 Manning. 



The President announced, that a most liberal donation of one thousand 

 dollars had been made to the Society by John A. Lowell, Esq., of Boston, 

 for the purpose of promoting the interests of the Society. A letter was 

 read from Mr. Lowell, accompanying the donation, and the warmest thanks 

 of the Society were presented to him. 



It was voted, that the amount be deposited in the Massachusetts Hospital 

 Life Insurance Company, and that the interest, annually accruing thereon, 

 be appropriated in medals, to be known as the " Lowell medals." 



It was voted, that the preparation of the Lowell medals be referred to the 

 medal committee. 



Mr. Breck, chairman of the committee on flowers, made the following 

 report : — 



At a meeting of the committee on flowers, held this day, the subject of 

 the new class of roses produced by Mr. Samuel Feast, of Baltimore, was 

 discussed. 



The committee were unanimous in the opinion, that some token of grate- 

 ful remembrance is due to Mr. Feast, from the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, for the valuable varieties of roses he has produced by cross impreg- 

 nation, particularly the "Queen of the Prairies," which has given so gen- 

 eral satisfaction to florists and others, and for which they feel under great 

 obligations to this enterprising cultivator. 



Mr. Feast has given the type of a new class of roses, in his new variety, 

 Rosa rubifolia, var. Queen of the Prairies. It is of the most hardy char- 

 acter ; enduring the most severe New England winter, without injury, even 

 to its tender extremities ; of most luxuriant growth, making, in good soils, 

 15 to 20 feet of wood in a season. The flowers very double ; color, light 

 crimson, inclining to rosy lilac ; produced in large clusters, on lateral 

 branches ; in bloom the beginning of July, after common hardy roses are 

 out of flower. 



This rose is without a rival, in our climate, for pillars, arbors, &c. Its 

 only deficiency appears to be a want of fragrance. 



We trust, by the further efforts of Mr. Feast, we shall yet be in posses- 

 sion of a variety having this desirable quality. 



It was voted, that the committee recommend that the Society's large gold 

 medal be presented to Samuel Feast, of Baltimore, for the production of 

 his seedling Rosa rubifolia var. Queen of the Prairies. (Signed) Joseph 

 Brece, Chairman. 



