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^ The enormous Cabbages, Beets, Squash, Carrots, &c, fully sustained 

 qP the reputation of our gardeners in the production of esculents. 

 / Flowers were in such profusion that we considered it a hopeless 

 task to enumerate the contributors. 



Ornamental designs were sent by Messrs. Pentland Bro., Green- 

 mount gardens, S. Feast and son, C. W. Stobie and J. Feast. W. H. 

 Kimberly exhibited a rustic flower garden, which was much admired 

 as displaying pure taste in arrangement and design. The floral temple 

 of the Messrs. Pentland, was an object of much admiration and dis- 

 played much artistic skill in its construction. 



The Society has much reason to congratulate itself upon the success 

 of its efforts so far. The past exhibition give sufficient evidence of 

 its utility, in the increasing taste for, and the improvement in Horti- 

 cultural matters. W. Saunders. 



The above report was intended for publication at an earlier date, 

 but was unavoidably held over. 



Vegetation in California. — The " N. York Agricultor," contains 

 some details furnished by Mr. Shelton of San Francisco, as to 1 the size 

 of some of the trees and fruits of that rich and prolific region. Many of 

 our readers will be disposed to smile at the statements, amongst which 

 we note the following : " A tree, across the trunk of which, as it lay 

 upon the ground, he strode twelve paces ; three yoke of oxen stood at 

 the same time on the stump. Another tree two men worked upon six 

 weeks, and made a thousand dollars' worth of shingles. Mr. S. has had 

 cabbages which weighed from 50 to 60 lbs. each; the leaves of grow- 

 ing cabbages having been measured at their greatest width, were 12 ft. 

 in diameter." We shall not add the enormous size of the potatoes 

 cultivated there, as the account would make our cultivators feel quite 

 mean. We hope the accounts are not exaggerated, as those who get 

 tired of gold digging may turn with equal profit to the cultivation of 

 the soil. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



We hope that our arrangements for the issue of the new volume 

 will meet the wishes of our friends and correspondents. We have 

 received communications from many of them already, promising in- 

 creased energy on their parts to extend our circulation, and hope that 

 they will also favor us wilh their experience in Horticulture, for the 

 benefit of our readers. Those who wish to subscribe for the new 

 volume, will please forward their names to the office, 63 Walnut St., 

 Phila., or to any of the agents named in our list. 



Received — A descriptive catalogue of stove, greenhouse and herba- 

 ceous plants, from J. E. Rauch, Florist, Brooklyn, L. I. 



We often have applications from different parts of the country for 

 catalogues of different nurserymen, which it is not always convenient 

 for us to supply ; if those who issue catalogues would send us copies, 

 post paid, we could furnish them when required. 



Errata. — Page 273, for Grand Duchesse Itdine^ read "Grande 

 Duchesse Helene." ^y 



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