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and did not even intimate that we should not use it ; and we, therefore, to 

 remove any doubt on this point, now state that our correspondent is Mr. 

 T. Meehan, gardener to C. Cope, Esq., Philadelphia, and if Mr. Leuchars 

 considers him " beneath his notice," he is not bound to reply. 



The latter part of Mr. Leuchars' remarks shows him to have become 

 quite " Amercanized." It is Yankee all over to answer one question by 

 asking another. After he has replied to Mr. Meehan, we will then answer 

 any and all questions he wishes to ask of us, and give all the proof neces- 

 sary to show the truth of our statements. In the mean time all who wish 

 to have occular demonstration of what we have done in the way of glazing 

 on the " American System," as Mr. Meehan has termed it, have only to 

 visit our grounds at Cambridge. — [Ed. 



Art. II. Societies. 



PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL. 



The stated meeting of this Society was held on Tuesday evening, 19tli 

 July, in the Chinese Saloon, Philadelphia, — Gen. Patterson, President, in 

 the chair. The exhibition of plants was unexpectedly large for midsum- 

 mer ; each collection contained some possessing interest, which it might be 

 well to notice. Among those brought by the President's gardener, were 

 a fine large plant of Plumien'a rosea, which the General sent home from 

 Mexico, and has now flowered for the first time. Tabernajmontana coro- 

 naria, in fine flower. Columnea Schneidiana, and a number of air plants. 

 Among Robt. Buist's, were neiv plants, and shown on this occasion for the 

 first time — Cyrtanthus magnificus, Lycaste tetragona, Achimenes Marga- 

 retta, Fuchsias Orion, Gem of the Season, Alpha and resplendens, and 

 Gloxinia Victoria Regina. F. Lennig's gardener exhibited two very fine 

 plants — Gardenia Stanleyana, in full flower, and Plumien'a rosea. Caleb 

 Cope's had three new species, exhibited for tJie first time — Justicia bicolor, 

 PromsenafB stapeloides, an orchid, and Hovey's globe amaranthus, a fine 

 specimen of Clerodendron Keempferu Allamanda nereifolia, &c. W. W. 

 Keen's contained a new plant, Hoya campanulata, very pretty, and seen for 

 the first time ; Lophospermum Hendersonu, Fuchsias, &c. James Dundas' 

 gardener presented handsome Fuchsias, Gloxinias, and a most beautiful 

 air plant, the Cattleya Mossia. The fruit table was laden with tempting 

 specimens of peaches, very large — called Late Admirable — a seedling tree 

 in fruit, growing in a 14-inch pot; also grapes of varieties, Black Ham- 

 burgh, St. Peters, White Frontignan, Tokay, and Purple Damask, from 

 Mr. Cope's grounds. From Eden Hall, were Black Hamburgh and White 

 Muscat grapes. Very large and luscious Moorpark apricots, by Thos. Rob- 

 ins. Wm. V. Pettit and Wm. Johns, H. P. McKean, large fine gooseber- 

 ries, called Cook's White Eagle, Farrow's Roaring Lion. Isaac B. Baxter 

 had seedling apricots, plums, the Royal hative and Jefferson ; and 3 kinds 

 of gooseberries. Mr. Buist, Breda apricot, pears. A Bloodgood, Windsor, 

 Madeline, English and French Jargonelle pears, currants. Black grape, Black 



