1852] THE PHILADELPHIA FLORIST. 



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Reported for the Philadelphia Florist. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 



The stated meeting of this Society was held at their Hall, Lower 

 Saloon, Chinese Museum, on Tuesday evening, April 20th, 1852 — 

 W. D. Brinckle, M. D., V. P., in the Chair. 



The display of flowers, plants, and vegetables was considerable, 

 taking into account the extreme severity of the past season, which is 

 not the least repentant of its severity ; the rain having continued with- 

 out any intermission during the day. The turn out of zealous ama- 

 teurs proved the taste for horticulture evinced in our city and county. 



Amongst the objects observed on the table, were a fine collection of 

 plants from the nursery of R. Buist, Rosedale, foreman, Wm. Mc- 

 intosh, consisting of Arbutus nepalensis — (Nepal, strawberry tree,) 

 a new plant with beautiful light colored flowers, edged with rosy pink 

 — much like the old Arbutus Andrachne, but with lanceolate leaves. 

 A fine specimen plant of the new Campanula nobilis var. alba — 

 (stately white Bell flower) first time before the society. Also 

 Epacris hyacinthiflora, for the first time exhibited here. An Au- 

 ricula, whose appearance was quite refreshing to the florists of the 

 "old school," also attracted no! ice — it is named "Morning Star" a 

 special premium of four dollars was recommended. Some fine and 

 distinct varieties of cinerarias, with a few neat Ericas, or heaths 

 from the Cape of Good Hope — Erica brunioides, E.pubescens major, 

 and E. pubescens minor made up this select lot. From the garden of 

 C. Cope, Esq. ; gardener, Thomas Meehnn, we observed Passiflora 

 racemosa (racemed Passion vine), Mane.ttia bicolor (two colored 

 Manettia), a large trained specimen of the scarlet Defiance Verbena. 

 Justicia Carnea (a large and showy specimen though an old and well 

 distributed plant, desirable for borders in summer, to be taken up and 

 housed in fall), seedling Cinerarias of merit, and specimens of the 

 double white, red, and fimbriated Primula sinensis (Chinese primrose), 

 Cuphea platy centra (broad crowned Cuphea). From the same con- 

 tributor were fine specimens of the showy Orchids (Nat. Ord. Gk- 

 chidace of Lindl.), Gongora maculata, G. picta, Oncidium lancea- 

 num, 0. luridum, Maxillaria striata and other plants. The most 

 rare and interesting plant exhibited in this collection was Henfreya 

 scandens, a beautiful plant of the N. Ord : Schrophulaiiacece or Fig 

 wort tribe, with dark gr^en foliage and pure white trusses of ringent 

 or gaping tubular flowers, in habit so strikingly peculiar as to consti- 

 tute a most desirable plant for the recherche amateur; but we must 

 soon close our admiratory observations or we shall get beyond all rea- 

 r -^ sonable limits. A seedling Rhododendron, a hybrid with the Chinese 





<v Azalea, (Azalea sinensis) was produced by John Sherwood, greenGN 



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