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achimenes ; a premium of $2 to J. Pollock, for Clerodendron Bethuniajza 

 and Medinilla Sieboldu ; a premium of $1 to T. Meehan, for Eranthemuni 

 semperflorens and Siphocampylos nitidus. Bouquet designs — for the best, 

 to T. Meehan ; for the second best, to T. Meghran. Basket of cut flow- 

 ers — for the best, to the same ; for the second best, to R. Kilvington ; for 

 the best of indigenous flowers, to T. Meehan ; for the best hand bouquet, 

 to S. Bell. And a special premium of $\ to T. Meehan, for a box of car- 

 nation flowers. The committee notice as deserving special attention, a very 

 fine specimen in J. Bell's collection of delphinium, Beauty of Cliarronne, a 

 hardy herbaceous plant, recommended as a very desirable bloom of great 

 duration. 



By the Committee on Fruits : — For the best Black Ilan burgh and White 

 Muscat of Alexandria grapes, to T. Meehan; for the best cherries. Burr's 

 Seedling, and for the second best. Belle Magnifique, to Francis Gouin. 

 The attention of the committee was especially attracted by a small quantity 

 of the fine strawberry, the Moyamensing seedling, by J. M. Tage ; nor can 

 they omit to notice the superior collection of peaches, apricots and necta- 

 rines, for which they award a special premium of $3 to T. Meehan ; and 

 fine varieties of currants, for which they award a premium of $2 to J. F. 

 Knorr. They also notice choice varieties of seedling raspberries, from tlie 

 gardens of Dr. Brinckle and Dr. Mitchell. 



By the Committee on Vegetables: — For the best di.^play of Vegetables, 

 by an amateur gardener, to T. Meehan ; for the second best, to T. Meghran. 

 The Fruit Committee, in presenting their usual monthly ad interim Re- 

 port, would remind the Society that, at the stated meeting of last month, 

 specimens of two new grapes (one a seedling of the Black Hamburgh, 

 the other the Musque Verdel.) were exhibited by the originator, J. Fisk 

 Allen, of Salem, Massachusetts. Wishing to have an opportunity of care- 

 fully examining these two varieties, the committee only noticed them 

 cursorily in their regular report for that evening, with a promise of sub- 

 mitting a more detailed pomological description of them in their June ad 

 interim report. The specimens having been Avinter forced, and being ripe 

 in March, were kept too long after their maturity to be in their greatest 

 perfection. 



Alkn^s Seedling Black Hamhurgh. — The bunch exhibited was not very 

 large, though it is probable there will be an improvement in this respect. 

 Berry large, black, oval ; seed grey ; flesh solid, and possessing much of 

 the character of the Black Hamburgh ; quality " very good." 



Musque Verdd. — This is a natural cross between the Grizzly Frontignan 

 and the Verdelho, the wine grape of Madeira. Bunch large, shouldered, 

 loose ; berry rather small, about half an inch in diameter, round, pale red ; 

 seed light cinnamon color; flavor rich, saccharine, highly perfumed ; quality 

 " best ;" said to be as early as the Black July, and the Pitmaston. 



Mr. Allen deserves the thanks of pomologists for having originated two 

 varieties of grapes of such excellence. And being of native origin, they 

 may prove, for out-door culture, better suited to the rcquirments of our 

 climate than their transatlantic parents. 



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