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medals, the amount required for an appropriation for the object — the rela- 

 tive value of the medals, and any other information relative thereto." 



Messrs. French, Newhall, and Richards, were chosen delegates to attend 

 the annual meeting of the Queen's Co. Horticultural Society. 



Messrs. Breck, Hovey, Richards, Haggerston, Walker, C. Newhall, 

 and O. Johnson, were chosen a committee to report a list of candidates for, 

 officers for the ensuing year. 



Adjourned 2 weeks, to Sept. 27th. 



Sept. I6lh, nth, and I8th. — The Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of the 

 Society was held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 16th, 17th, 

 and 18th, at the Society's Hall, in School street. 



The first annual exhibition of the Society in the new Hall, was of a char- 

 acter, quite different from any of those which have preceded it. This was 

 owing to two causes ; first, the increased amounts offered for floral designs, 

 and the second to the tablos of the hall, which admitted of a greater dis- 

 play of large objects. The display of pot plants was not so large as usual, 

 but no effort was made to procure such, as the increasing quantity of fruit 

 required more space than heretofore. Their absence, however, was more 

 than made up, in the magnificence of the designs, which were indeed the 

 attracting feature of the exhibition. The whole arrangement was excellent, 

 and the Society may feel proud in the possession of a Hall so well adapted 

 to its wants. 



The entrance staircase was covered with a bower of evergreen ; opposite 

 this, at the semicircular end of the hall, stood the Floral Temple of Mr. 

 Haggerston, and the Chinese Temple of Messrs. Hovey & Co. ; in the 

 rear of these were arranged a quantity of evergreens and fine pot plants, in 

 front of which stood a table of fruit containing the splendid basket from 

 Mr. Haggerston. At the other end of the hall was placed the Gothic pyr- 

 amid, from Mr. Quant. On the sides of the room were the smaller designs 

 and large bouquets, and around the clock was displayed the elegant wreath- 

 ing from Mr. S. A. Walker ; the whole forming a tout ensemble truly 

 grand. The cut flowers consisted mostly of asters, the dry summer having 

 been very unfavorable to the growth of the dahlia, and this superb autum- 

 nal flower, for the first time, was eclipsed by its rival, the aster. 



Of the pot plants, there were some fine specimens, particularly of fuch- 

 sias, from the President of the Society, and Messrs. Hovey & Co. ; also 

 large plants of Achimenes, from the same. Messrs. Hovey & Co. showed 

 a splendid specimen of the Lisianthus Russelhanws, and one of the Glad- 

 iolus gandavensis. Among the cut flowers, the most prominent objects 

 were a Chromatellarose from Messrs. Breck & Co., very beautiful, and 

 twenty-four varieties of new phloxes, from Messrs. Hovey & Co. 



The collection of fruit was very extensive, and contained some of the 

 finest specimens we have ever seen. Mr. Manning sent the immense num- 

 ber of two hundred and forty varieties of pears, and much better grown than 

 in preceding years. The President of the Society also contributed upwards 

 of one hundred and twenty varieties, among which were very large speci- 

 mens of Van Mons Leon le Clerc. Upwards of sixty varieties were sent 

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