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some advantages over our common glazing, as you state in your remarks ; but 

 it has disadvantages also; and when the rebates are very irregular, as is of- 

 ten the case, in sashes made by machinery, and especially on curvilinear 

 houses, as generally constructed, the work is bad. In fact, the method can- 

 not be adopted, with any chance of making a good job, unless the rebate be 

 regular and well made. I have, the past year, glazed over two hundred 

 sashes in this manner; and when the work is properly executed, I consider it 

 the best method of setting small sized glass. But the system is neither new 

 nor American; and I am surprised that neither you, nor the Philadelphia 

 Florist, knew this before. Yours, truly, R. B. Leuchars (inHovey's Mag.) 

 Roxbury, Jan. 1853. 



We are very happy to have such a companion in ignorance as 

 Mr. Hovey ; we believe that the system was mentioned in his ma- 

 gazine before noticed in this, but we were not aware of it at that 

 time. But if any person has been induced to try a better mode of 

 glazing by what we said on the subject, we care not whether it be 

 American or English, old or new, so that the good cause is advanc- 

 ed.— Ed. 



PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The stated monthly meeting of this Association occurrred on Tuesday 

 evening, May 17, in the Chinese Saloon, Philadelphia, Dr. W. D. Brinckle, 

 V. P., in the chair. 



The display on the occasion was one of interest, consisting of many fine 

 specimens of greenhouse plants and esculents, betokening much skill in cul- 

 tivation. Of the former a few of the choicest might be noticed. In Mr. 

 Buist's collection, shown by Thos. Fairley, foreman, were remarkably well- 

 grown specimens of Azalea Maitlandii, A. variegata, Ixora coccinea, AUtrce- 

 ineria bicolor, Calceolaria, Bletia hyacinthioid.es, and a dozen pots of indigen- 

 ous plants. J. F. Knorr's gardener, John Bell, presented a collection not 

 in competition. A beautiful plant of Deutzia gracilis, for the first time 

 shown ; Nierembergia gracilis, very pretty ; Scutellaria Ventenatii; fragrant 

 Cestrum awantiactwi, Jasminum gracile, a dozen Geraniums, as many Cin- 

 erarias, and a number of Calceolarias of much beauty. Thomas Meehan, 

 gardener to Caleb Cope, brought Pliysurus argenteus, Cliysis braetescens, 

 both new, and shown for the first time. Statice Dicksonia, rare. Allamanda 

 nereifolia y good specimen; Fabiana imbricata and Fuchsia Diadem. Also; a 

 design and baskets of cut flowers; in the latter was the 105th flower of Vic- 

 toria. Regia, from the original plant, and a basket of wild flowers. Isaac 



