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The premiums for dahlias were all awarded to Mr. G. Schmidt, viz. : — 

 For the best twenty varieties, $3. For the next best, $2. For the best 

 parti-colored seedling, $3, and for the best deep colored seedling, ^3. 



The following, on Designs, may be found interesting. Among a num- 

 ber, by Archibald Henderson, gardener to Wharton Chancellor, was a 

 Gothic Temple, or Cottage summer house, of handsome form, with ever- 

 green envelope, embellished appropriately with flowers rising to the height 

 of sixteen feet. A large pair of Wreaths, representing a pair of cornuco- 

 pias pouring out a variety of fruit, a handsome design. Two pairs of rus- 

 tic tubs, from which were growing climbers, each pair with long poles 

 arched together, around which twined Ipomea sellowii, I. quamoclit, Cobea 

 scandens, Thunbergia alata, etc. 



By Samuel Maupay, an Oriental Temple, about fourteen feet in height, 

 of square and fanciful form, highly adorned with various flowers. A design, 

 representing an ornamented cottage, of handsome construction, and nearly 

 of the same height, covered with moss, and embellished with flowers. A 

 third, the plan of a Chinese Pagoda, of upwards of twenty feet altitude, 

 covered with moss, interspersed with flowers. And a fourth, a triumphal 

 arch, of about nine feet in height, and finished with a spire to the altitude 

 of fifteeen feet ; suspended in the arch was a beautiful laurel wreath. 

 These contributions were produced with much labor and expense, and were 

 creditable to the contributor. 



By Joseph Cook, a beautiful rustic arbor of evergreen, about eight feet in 

 height, ornamented appropriately with flowers, carpeted with moss, a very 

 neat device. 



By Patrick Gallagher, gardener to Miss Gratz, a rustic temple, of eigh- 

 teen feet altitude, in good proportions, and appropriately embellished with 

 flowers. 



The whole concludes with the reports of the delegates appomted to at- 

 tend the exhibitions of other associations. 



Horticultural Exhibition of the American Institute. — The 19th Annual 

 Fair of the Institute was held in New York, at Castle Garden, on the 6th 

 of October, and continued for a fortnight. The Report of the Horticultural 

 department fills a pamphlet of 16 pages, and is a very interesting document, 

 drawn up by that veteran gardener, Mr. Bridgeman, who has always 

 evinced so much interest in this department of the Institute. Besides the 

 mere report of the flowers, fruits, &c., exhibited, the Report is prefaced by 

 an interesting retrospect of the progress of gardening in the "American 

 Metropolis," which we may refer to at another opportunity. 



Flowers : The principal flowers exhibited, were dahlias and roses, con- 

 tributed by upwards of thirty individuals, the principal of whom were as 

 follows : — 



From J. M. Thorburn & Co., No. 15 John street, a display of about 450 

 dahlia blooms, frequently renewed during the Fair. Messrs. Dunlap & 

 Thompson, 635 Broadway, a display of about 300 dahlia blooms, renewed 

 during the Fair; also, two beautiful ornamental designs, 24 of the choicest 

 varieties of dahlias, and other ornamental plants. William Kent, Brook- 

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