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late for competition. The committee called the attention of the society to 

 a dish of French beans, plum tomatoes, and beets, shown by Wm. Johns. 



Art. III. Massaehuseils Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, Jlpril 2. — The stated quarterly meeting of the Society was held 

 to-day, — the President in the chair. 



[The proceedings of the meetings will be given in our next.] 



Exhibited. Fruit : From William Breed, Easter Beurre pears. From 

 A. W. Stetson, Baldwin apples. From J. F. Allen, grapes, in variety; figs. 



Jlpril 9. — Exhibited. Fruit: From J. S. Amory, Easter Beurre pears, 

 preserved after the plan of D. T. Curtis. From T. Bigelow, by Thos. 

 Needham, strawberries. From A. W. Stetson, Baldwin apples. From 

 Jona. French, by W. F. VValch, strawberries. 



Jlpril 23. — Exhibited. Fruit : From S. Downer, Jr., pears — Easter 

 Beurre, Catillac, Jaminette, &c. 



May 14. — Opening of the Hall. The first exhibition of the season, 

 in the Society's Hall, took place to-day. The weather was fine, and the 

 season sufficiently forward to ensure a very good display at such an early 

 period of the month. The show of plants in pots was unusually rich, va- 

 ried, beautiful, — finer than any ever seen at the May exhibition. Messrs. 

 Wilder and Hovey displayed a large number of plants, and among them 

 several new and choice things. We copy the chairman's report : — 



Among the most conspicuous plants shown, were the Azalea decora, A. 

 variegata, Gardenia Fortum'i, and Torem'a asiatica, from M. P. Wilder. 

 Superb pelargoniums, Erica Cavendishti, and other finely grown and rare 

 plants, from Messrs. Hovey. Justicta carnea, and Manettia bicolor, from 

 T. Page. Splendid cinerarias, calceolarias, &c., from A. Bowditch. Cut 

 flowers, from Winships, P. Barnes, E. M. Richards, T. Page, and others. 



From M. P. Wilder, fifty-three plants, among them Gardenm Fortum'i, 

 Tetratheca verticillata, Rynchospermum jasminoides, Livingstom'a chinen- 

 sis, Oldenlandia Deppew, Balsamia latifolia alba, Puya AlstensteimV, &c. ; 

 also, geraniums, Flower of the Day, Statinska, and Jenny Lind ; azflleas 

 indica variegata, decora, Gledstanesti, Coronata, spectabilis, and seedlings ; 

 fuchsias — Due de Bordeaux, Exoniensis, Gen. Changarnier, &c., &c. ; Be- 

 gonia coccinea, J^schynanthus Horsfieldir. 



From Messrs. Hovey, 6 fancy pelargoniums, viz., — Anna is, Jenny Lind, 

 Hero of Surrey, Pilot, Perfection, and Maid of Anjou ; fuchsias — Pearl of 

 England, Roi des Fuchsias, Psyche, President Porcher, Gem of the West, 

 and Nonpariel ; Erica ventricosa breviflora, b. sup^rba and b. hirsuta, Cav- 

 endishn, intermedia and Vestita r6sea ; six cactuses, six calceolarias, and 

 the following plants — Tetratheca verticillata, Pimelea dccussata, Double 

 white Chinese Primrose, Gladiolus Lord John Russell, iEschynanthus Hors- 

 fieldir, Azalea Gledstanesii, and Danielstana, Erica ventricosa hirsuta, &c. 



From T. Page, plants — Justicia carnea n6va, Cuphea platycentra, Te- 

 tratheca verticillata, Calceolaria, Clematis Sieboldii, 2 Fuchsia, Dr. Tyson; 



