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Scarlet Melting', inferior quality ; Rhode Island Hudson Bay, small, of fair 

 quality ; Cincinnati, do. do., small, acid ; New York,' do. do., medium size, 

 deficient in flavor; Dundee, small, from its firm flesh appears to be well 

 suited to carriage ; Crimson Cone, small, inferior ; Myatt's Eliza ; Mottier's 

 Seedling, indifferent ; Columbia, a good strawberry, of medium size and pe- 

 culiar flavor ; Myatt's Prolific, of large size, coxcomb shape, good quality ; 

 Black Prince, medium size, dark color, — wants character, — poor ; Scioto, of 

 medium size, and quality ; Princess Alice Maud (?) ; Profusion ; Jenney's 

 Seedling; Princess Royal, (French); Duke of Kent, bears a strong resem- 

 blance to Dundee ; Myatt's Deptford Pine ; Taylor's Seedling, small, indif- 

 ferent ; Burr's New Pine ; Cattrugh's Seedling, No. 8, (English) no flower, 

 of excellent shape ; Cattrugh's Seedling, No. 0, of a hautbois flower ; Ohio 

 Mammoth; Old Pine, (Burr's); Rural Hudson, a good strawberry, of a large 

 size, flesli firm, color light red. 



Juhj 13. An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day, — Presi- 

 dent Walker in the chair. 



A communication, accompanied with a present, was received from Mon- 

 sieur Tougard, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, President of Central 

 Society of Horticulture of the Lower Seine, at Rouen. 



Voted, on motion of Mr. Richards, that the thanks of this society be pre- 

 sented to Mons. Tougard, for his valuable present, and that the correspond- 

 ing secretary communicate the same. 



Voted, on motion, tliat further time be granted to tlie committee appointed 

 to select delegates to attend the Pomological Convention, to be held in'Cin- 

 cinnati, in September next. 



The corresponding secretary read two letters received from Dr. J. Kini- 

 cott, of the Grove, Illinois. Adjourned two Aveeks, to July 20. 



Exhibited. — Flowers : From Hovey & Co., 15 varieties of phloxes, 

 among which were Annais, Triumphator, Camille, Cromwell, Arsinoe, Goethe, 

 Beppo, Rosetta, &c. ; also, 12 varieties Prairie roses, Calystegia pubes- 

 cens, and verbenas St. Margaret, Defiance and Iphigene. From J. Breck 

 & Co., Clematis florida and SieboldiY, Z)elphinium Breckii, Barlow;', &c., 

 and other flowers. From Jas. Jackson, cut flowers of the new and pretty 

 Zauschneri'o californica. Cut floAvers, bouquets, &c., from Winship & Co., 

 J. Nugent, P. Barnes, B. E. Cotting, E. Winslow, A. Bowditcli, E. Burns, 

 J. Hovey, Miss Barnes, Miss Kenrick, and others. 



Fruits. — From O. Johnson, fine specimens of the following cherries : — 

 Black Eagle, Mottled Bigarreau, Florence, Black Tartarian, and Napoleon 

 Bigarreau ; also, Jenney's Seedling strawberries. From J. F. Allen, grapes, 

 peaches, and nectarines. From T. Needham, Cannon Hall Muscat, and 

 other grapes. From J. S. Sleeper, Seedling cherries. From A. Parker, 

 White Bigarreau cherries, and fine gooseberries. From C. Carrutli, goose- 

 berries. From J. Gordon, Franconia raspberries. 



From Hovey & Co., Wilmot's Black Hamburgh, No. IG, grapes. From 

 E. Burns, fine Black Hamburgh and Muscat of Alexandria grapes. From 

 Jos. Richardson, Richardson's Late strawberries. From Geo. Walsh, fine 

 new large Black Bigarreau cherries. From C. Newhall, Knevct's Giant 

 raspberries. From K. Bailey, Red and White raspberries. 



