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beauty of its situation and aspects, and the agreeableness of its 

 promenades. The company arrived from Paris before ten 

 o'clock in the morning, and by mid-day the parish church of 

 Ris was full, when a solemn mass was executed, the music of 

 which was composed for the occasion. In this mass, some of 

 the first singers of Paris, whose names are given, assisted in 

 the musical part. After the mass, the members of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, with their president, the Vicomte Hericart 

 de Thury, at their head, and the other officers of the society, 

 went through M. Soulange-Bodin's extensive establishment 

 of hot-houses, and at last found themselves in the middle of a 

 circle of ladies, seated under an awning, while their ears were 

 impi-essed with a music which conveyed a sentiment emi- 

 nently religious, and which seemed to be the service of the 

 church of nature, for the purpose of expressing the gratitude 

 of man towards the Author of so many wonders. Soon after- 

 wards the spectators separated in little winding columns, along 

 the serpentine paths of the garden, towards a new fountain, 

 which played that day for the first time, and which was dedi- 

 cated by the proprietor of Fromont to " Friendship and the 

 Arts," in the person of M. Plantade, an eminent musical 

 composer. Here another piece of music was executed. 

 After amusing themselves for some time in different parts of 

 the garden, a vast tent was opened, in which the company sat 

 down, 200 at a time, to a banquet vraiment horticultural ; that 

 is, of delicate cheer and excellent wines, interspersed with 

 rare, curious, and high-priced plants. Music was again in 

 requisition, and, as the ultimatum of gaiety, et le plus noble 

 elan, the President proposed the health of " The King, the 

 Protector of Agriculture, Industry, and the Arts." 



Nosegays were prepared for the ladies, who were also 

 presented with the first number of the Annates de la Societe 

 d' Horticulture* Some new subscribers to the society were 

 procured by this means. A concert and a ball succeeded, 

 and the latter lasted till the following morning. So numerous 

 were the carriages, that Fromont seemed joined to Paris, and 

 all the efforts of the amiable, liberal, and enlightened pro- 

 prietor were seconded by the finest weather. 



2. On the Hybrids obtained by the Baron Melazzo at 

 Palermo, the Chevalier Soulange-Bodin at Fromont, M. Fion 

 at Paris, and the Honourable and Reverend William Her- 

 bert in England. By Baron Hamelin, of Franconville. 



Baron Melazzo deprived Amaryllis vittata of its anthers 

 before they were expanded, and fecundated its stigma with 

 the pollen of Amaryllis reginse. In due time Amaryllis 



