422 Domestic Notices. 



setta, Pearl, Emperor, Louisa, Rosy Circle and Arniada. Mr. Stains, 

 Armada, Centurion, Lamartine, Armada superb, Gulielnia and Pearl. Nur- 

 serymen: Mr. Gaines sent Meleager, Negress, Chieftain, Lord Warden, 

 Oriflame and Rosy Circle. Six plants in 8-inch pots: Mr. Stains produced 

 Constance, Brilliant (Topping,) Narcissus, Ariel, Conspicuum and Pearl. 

 Mr. Cock, Centurion, Sundown, Star, Meleager, Ondine, and Sikh. Mr. 

 Robinson, Mars, Cassandra, Senata, Paragon, Ariel, Rowena. Nursery- 

 men : Mr. Beck had Governor, Painter, Cuyp, Vanguard, Loveliness and 

 Star. Mr. Bragg, Ondine, Conspicuum, Alderman, Azure, Voltigeur and 

 Countess of Sefton. Mr. Gaines, Aspasia, Star, Mars, Flying Dutchman, 

 Excelsa and Marchioness of Stafford. 



Fancy Pelargoniums. — Mr. Stains sent Hero of Surrey, Reine des Fran- 

 cais, Magnifica, Queen Superb, Bouquet tout fait and Fairy Queen. Mr. 

 Gaines, Wintonia, Orestes, Fairy Queen, Reine des Francais, Alboni and 

 Hero of Surrey. Mr. Ambrose, Juno, Pilot, Enchantress, Magnet, Standard, 

 and Pride of Surrey. — {Card. Chron., 1850, p. 455.) 



The RoujfD-LEAVED Bell-flower or Hare-bell. — Campanula ro- 

 iundifolia. — This is one of the most truly elegant, and one of the most uni- 

 versally admired of British plants. In some part of England the name 

 harebell is appropriated to the wild hyacinth or blue-bell, but the present 

 plant seems to have the best claim to it from general practice and poetical 



autliority : — 



" E'en the slight harebell raised its head, 

 Elastic from her airy tread." 



We must not, however, expect vernacular names to have any precision or 

 certainty of application. The name campanula signifies a little bell, and 

 expresses the characteristic form of the flowers of tliis genus. It is pro- 

 duced by the coherence of the five petals, of which the corolla really con- 

 sists. The union is so complete that the flower appears to be only cut or 

 lobed in the border, more or less deeply in different species. — ( Gard. Jour., 

 1850, p. 4()8.) 



Art. II. Domestic JVotices. 



American Pomological Congress. — Meeting postponed to the 2c?, Sd 

 and 4th daijs of October. — The next session of this National Institution, 

 which was to have been held in September, is hereby postponed to tlie 2d, 

 3d, and 4lli days of October next. The Ohio State 'Board of Agriculture 

 have also postponed the State fair to the same time. In conformity, there- 

 fore, with the resolutions instructing the president of this association to act 

 in concert witli tiiat board, this notice is given to countermand the circular 

 issued for the meeting in September. The reasons assigned for this change 

 are, that tlie apprehensions in relation to cholera and similar diseases may 

 continue to exist until after the time heretofore appointed for the meeting of 

 these institutions. — M. P. Wilder, President. Boston, August 22, 1850. 



We are glad to learn of this postponement for two reasons : it Avill enable 

 more eastern pomologists to visit Cincinnati, as they could not leave in Sep- 

 liBmber, on account of the annual exhibition of tlie Massachusetts Horticul- 



