418 Domestic Notices. 



and the Pomologist. Societies are springing up in all parts of the countiy, 

 and have now become so numerous that quite a number hold their exhibi- 

 tions on the same days. This is to be regretted ; but in a country so ex- 

 tensive, and with so many such institutions, it is almost impossible to 

 arranore them to accommodate the members of each. The following are 

 the principal exhibitions : — 



Massachxisdts Horticultural Society. — The Twenty-fiflh Annual Exhibition 

 will take place in Boston on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 21st, 

 22d, and 23d of September. 



JVew York Horticultural Society. — The Second Annual Exhibition will be 

 held in New York, at Niblo's Garden, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day, the 20th, 21st and 22d of September. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. — The Twenty-fifth Exhibition of 

 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will be held in the Philadelphia 

 Museum, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 21st, 22d and 23d of 

 September. 



Albany and Rensselaer Horticultural Society. — The Annual Exhibition 

 will be held in Albany, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 7th and 8th of 

 September. 



JVew York State Agricultural Society. — The Annual Fair will be held at 

 Saratoga, on the 20th, 21st, 22d and 23d of September. 



Genesee Valley Horticultural Society. — The Annual Exhibition will be 

 held at Rochester, on Friday and Saturday, the 16th and 17th of September. 



Cincinnati Horticultural Society. — The Annual Exhibition will be held in 

 Cincinnati, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 22d, 23d, and 24th of 

 September. 



Worcester County Horticultural Society. — The Annual Exhibition will be 

 held in Worcester, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 21st, 22d and 

 23d of September. 



American Institute. — The Horticultural and Floricultural Exhibition of 

 this Institution will be held at Castle Garden, New York, commencing on 

 Tuesday, October 4th, next. 



JVorth Western Fruit Growers Convention. — The meeting will be held at 

 Chicago, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 4th, 5th, 6th 

 and 7th of October next. 



The Salem, Lowell, Springfield, and other County Societies will also 

 hold exhibitions, but we have not been favored with any account of the time. 



Cultivation of Cyrtocerus ueflexus. — Mr. Hovey : Would you be 

 kind enough to let me know, through your most valuable magazine of Hor- 

 ticulture, what I shall do with my Cyrtochus reflexus, which is in bloom, 

 and so is multiflora. Neither show much disposition to grow : multifl6ra 

 is doing rather better than refl^xa, though both are treated alike, and grow- 

 ing side by side. A yellow, meagre-looking plant is reflexa. It has not 

 shown any sign of growth in six months, with the exception of one truss of 

 flowers. They are potted in equal quantities of rich loam and leaf mould, 

 with some white sand, all well blended together with the hands — not sifted. 

 The pots are six-inch, prepared with a good layer of broken pots at the 



