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sweet scented ; an unusual circumstance with bignonias. It is a 

 plant of moderate growth, with cordate, acuminate, subpube- 

 scent leaves, and terminal panicles of snow white flowers 

 which appear in May. It is supposed to be a native of Bue- 

 nos Ayres, It is propagated by cuttings in the usual way. 



The present species and B. picta are admirable plants for 

 pot cultivation trained to a trellis, and if pains were taken 

 they would make most beautiful objects for exhibition. " The 

 whole of the Bignoniaceous order is full of the finest, the most 

 indescribably lovely plants that the eye can rest upon, of 

 which scarcely any, and they in many cases the worst, have 

 found their way to Europe." It is to be hoped that collec- 

 tors in Brazil will strive to procure them that we may be- 

 come acquainted with their remarkable beauty. {Bot. Reg. 

 Octo.) 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Domestic Notices. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. — The Report of the Sixteenth Annual 

 Exhibition of this Society has been forwarded to us by one of our Philadel- 

 phia correspondents. It occupies about thirty closely printed pages, and 

 contains the reports of the Committees awarding premiums, — the names of 

 all the plants exhibited, — the cut flowers and floral designs, — the fruits, — 

 and the vegetables. The exhibition was one of great splendor, and the 

 floral designs appear to have been superior to any preceding show. Of 

 fruits, there were about a hundred varieties of apples, very fine and free 

 from blemish, many of large size, weighing from one to one and three- 

 quarters pounds ; upwards of sixty varieties of foreign and native grapes : 

 one collection alone contained thirty-three kinds ; twenty varieties of peaches, 

 one half of which were seedlings : as many varieties of pears, and a num- 

 ber of kinds of plums. 



The committee conclude their report with the following remarks : — 

 "The products exhibited from time to time before the Society appear to 

 be brought almost to a state of perfection, and while incentives should still 

 be held out for their growth, it now becomes the Society to divert some of 

 its energies into other channels. It has in some measure done so, but seem- 

 ingly with little success. Nearly three years ago there was originated 

 the project of holding out inducements for the introduction and propagation 

 of new plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables ; and a Committee with ample 

 funds at its disposal for meritorious awards appointed ; but from some inex- 



