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To F. W. Macondry, of Dorchester, for the second best do., a premium 

 of $7. 



The Committee recommend a gratuity for a wreath of corn of 12 varieties, 

 to J. L. L. F. Warren, of $3. 



Also, a gratuity to E. Wight, of Dedham, for a variety of squashes, $2. 



Messrs. Breck, A. D. Williams, Jr. and Kingsbury, judges. 



Sept. 19ih. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day, — the 

 President in the chair. Adjourned one week to Sept. 26th. 



Sept. 2Qth. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day, — the 

 President in the chair. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to the Committee of Arrangements 

 for the Annual Exhibition, for the very acceptable manner in which they 

 attended to their duty. 



Messrs. Wight, Breck, S. Walker, Haggerston and O. Johnson, were 

 appointed a committee to nominate a list of officers for the ensuing year. 



Meeting dissolved. 



[Owing to the length of the report of the Annual Exhibition, we are 

 compelled to omit a report of the Dahlia Show which took place to-day for 

 premiums, until our next.] 



Art. II. Retrospective Criticism. 



Errata. — Page 342, three lines from the top, for " produced," read 

 " fruited." In our article. Calls at Gardens and Nurseries, there is a typo- 

 graphical error which destroys the sense of a sentence. At the bottom of 

 page 352 there is a full period, which should have been a comma. The 

 sentence should read " and some facilities afTorded for clearing up the con- 

 fusion in the nomenclature of some sorts within a year or two. The kinds 

 of grapes," &c. In this number, we have accidentally omitted to give the 

 scale of the engravings, ^'o^s. 24, 25, and 26, pp. 380, 381, and 382. It is 

 half an inch to the foot. 



Jerusalem Artichoke. — Your correspondent, M. A. Ward, in the last num- 

 ber of your valuable Magazine, in his remarks on the Hog Artichoke of 

 Tenn., has evidently fallen into an error in calling the Jerusalem Artichoke 

 the Solanum tuberosum, — it is the Helianthus tuberosus, tuberous sun- 

 flower, Nat. Ord. Composite, — a class of plants entirely distinct from the 

 Solanaceae. Doubtless he is correct as to the vegetable alluded to, being a 

 Solanum, different, however, from the tuberosum (common potato) of what 

 species of Solanum it would be desirable to know, as its cultivation is extend- 

 ing. I would suggest that he describe it now, in its growing state, that it 

 may be determined. — Yours respectfully, P. T., Phila., July, 1846. 



Another correspondent writes, — after calling our attention to the over- 

 sight of Dr. Ward, — that the Hog Artichoke is the Helianthus tuberosum, 

 Solanum tuberosum being the potato. — W. S. R., Milled geville, Ga., July, 

 1846. 



