158 THE PHI LADELP HIA FLORIST. [Sept'r. 



Tokay) toWra. Johns. Nectarines — For the best six specimens (the^J 

 Newington) to Matthew Gardiner, Alex. Brown's gardener ; for thee/ 

 second best (the Elruge) to the same. Plums — For the best (Heine v 

 Claude) to Mrs. J. B. Smith ; for the second best (Flushing Gage) to 

 Thos. P. James. Pears — For the best eight (Tyson) to Wm. Parry; 

 for the second best (Manning's Elizabeth) to H. W. S. Cleveland. — 

 Apples — For the best half peck, (Early Bough) and for the second, 

 (the Hagloe) to John Perkins. 



The fruit committee submitted an ad interim report of objects shown 

 to them since last meeting. , 



Vegetables. — For the best display by a marketgardener, to Anthony 

 Felton, Jr.; for the best by a private gardener, to Thos. Meghran, gr. 

 to R. Cornelius; for the second best, to Maurice Finn; and special pre- 

 miums to Anthony Fellon, Jr., for a display of Egg Plants, and to T. 

 Meghran for a display of new Corn called "Stoweli's evergreen sugar 

 corn," being remarkable in size, and represented as very productive 

 and superior for the table. 



The committee also notice with pleasure, and call the attention of 

 the Society to a new variety of Salad, called the Speckled Salad of 

 Austria, grown from seed obtained from Vienna, and exhibited by Dr. 

 J. Rhea Barton. 



A fine bloom of the Victoria was exhibited, from R. Buist's houses 

 Rosedale, foreman, Wm. Mcintosh, the second successful cultivator of 

 the renowned Lily. We have seen no notice of it in the Secretary's 

 report in the "Bulletin" — fair play. A neat collection of plants were 

 deposited by P. Mackenzie, Sch. 5th and Spruce, consisting of Fuch- 

 sias, Gloxinias, &c. 



The display of Fruits was large ; Grapes were in supply, many of 

 the bunches not well colored, and some quite destitute of bloom. — 

 Pears were almost all over-ripe. The pyramid of flowers on the cen- 

 tre table was well formed, and decorated with three buds of the Ce- 

 reus glauca. The basket of flowers contained a flower, in its second 

 stage, of the Victoria. Two baskets of indigenous flowers were exhi- 

 bited (not for competition) by R. R. Scott. A new plant, Franciscea 

 villosa, !was exhibited from Caleb Cope's houses, not remarkable for 

 anything but the character of its leaves, which differ in being soft or 

 villous, and more oval than those of the old species. We must omit 

 many other interesting matter's. We would recommend all competi- 

 tors to send their plants to the room at least one hour before the time 

 of meeting, as the by-law must be carried out. 



The following are the Delegates from Penn. Hort. Society to the 

 American Pomological Congress : 



Gen. Robert Patterson, Caleb Cope, Thomas Hancock, David Lan- 

 dreth, E. W. Keyser, Robert Buist, Thomas P. James, J. E. Mitchell, 

 Peter Mackenzie, J.D. Fulton, Dr. Robert Hare, Dr. Thos. McEwen, 

 Peter K. Gorgas, John R. Bri^ckle, Edw. Harris, John Perkins. 



New York Horticultural Society. 



At a meeting of this Society, held at Stuyvesant Institute, August 

 2d, 1852, after some appropriate remarks by Mr. Peter B. Mead, the 

 following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted: 

 i Whereas, This Society, by a melancholy calamity, has been sud- & 



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