94 THE FLORIST AND 



Dauphin; Christian Myers, of Clarion; H. Jones Brooke, of Delaware; 

 and the President of the Convention be a Committee, whose duty it shall 

 be to draft a bill in accordance with the principles of this report, and sub- 

 mit the same for the action of the Legislature. 



The resolution and report were discussed by Frederick Watts, Cumber- 

 land ; John C. Cresson, Philadelphia; Benj. Herr, Lancaster; David Mum- 

 ma, Jr., Dauphin; Wm. M. Meredith, Philadelphia; G. Blight Browne, 

 Montgomery, and Jas. Cameron, Northumberland. 



Adjourned sine die. 



The New York Horticultural Society held its monthly meeting on the 7th 

 of March. We see by a report in a New York paper that Messrs. T. 

 Hogg k Son exhibited some flowers, and Mr. Isaac Buchanan some plants, 

 among which were specimens of his new Verbenas, Painted lady, P. JB. 

 Mead, and Eliza', and Mr. Cranston seedling Cinerarias and Pansies. 



The Albany and Renssalaer Horticultural Society held their annual meet- 

 ing on the 16th of February. The display of fruits and flowers was very 

 fine ; most of the apples and pears were from the nursery of Messrs. Ellwan- 

 ger & Barry, of Rochester. The show of Camellias and greenhouse plants 

 was also very good. 



Maryland Horticultural Society. — At a meeting of the Society, held in 

 Baltimore on the 7th of March, the following officers were elected for the 

 present year: 



President — Dr. Thomas Edmondson. 



Vice Presidents — Thomas Winans, Henry Snyder, A. C. Pracht, Samuel 

 Sands. 



Treasurer — Edward Kurtz. 



Corresponding Secretary — William Saunders. 



Recording Secretary — R. F. Pentland. 



Assistant Secretary — John Tuomay. 



Secretary to Committees — H. B. Jones. 



Committee on Plants and Flowers — Thomas Winans, C. U. Stobie, John 

 Tuomay. 



Committee on Fruit — Henry Snyder, John Feast, Wm. Saunders. 



Committee on Vegetables — S. Feast, Sr., N. Popplein, R. F. Pentland. 



We had the pleasure of seeing in bloom at Mr. Knorr's in West Phila- 

 delphia, JEschynanthus albidus, a species newly introduced by him. It 

 has the habit of pulcher, with the same ovate leaves. The calyx is deeply 

 cleft as in speciosus and the corolla is small, waxy white, spotted with 

 brown on the inside, shaped like a Gloxinia, resembling except in the fring- 

 ed edge of the corolla, the flower of Drymonia punctata, It is free-flow- 

 ering and a decided acquisition. 



