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Vegetables — Best Beets, (gardeners' premium) D. K. Lushby, 2nd E. 

 Whittemore. Early Cabbage, 1st D. K. Lushby, 2nd E. Whittemore. — 

 (Amateurs.) Best Cabbage and Potatoes, C. Campbell. Best display of 

 Vegetables, E. Whittemore, 2nd D. K. Lushby. 



W. Saunders, Cor. Secretary. 



NEW YORK HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The New York Horticultural Society held its Semi-annual exhibition last 

 week. The display seems from the reports in the daily papers to have been 

 a good one. The Herald regrets that the company was not very numerous. 

 They had some leaves and a flower of the Victoria regia, from Mr* Cope's 

 plant. 



The following premiums were awarded: 



Roses. Class I. — First premium awarded to J. S. Burgess, gardener to 

 W. E. Burton, Esq., Glen Cove, L. I. Do., Mateo Donadi, Astoria. 



Class II. — First premium — George Hamlin, gardener to W. C, Langley, 

 Brooklyn. Second premium — J. Burgess. 



Class III — Second premium— J. Burgess. 



The prizes for plants have been awarded as follows: 



Hothouse Plants — First premium to Thomas Duncan, gardener to E. J. 

 Woolsey, Astoria. Second premium to L. Menand, Albany. 



Greenhouse Plants — First premium to L. Menand, Albany. 



Orchids — First premium to L. Menand, Albany. 



Carnations — First premium to Wm. Chorlton, gardener to J. C. Green, 

 Staten Island. 



Geraniums — First premium to A. Gordon, gardener to E. Hoyt, Astoria, 



Pelargoniums^Best six varieties — George Hamlin, gardener to W. C. 

 Langley, Brooklyn ; second best do — W. Chorlton, gardener to J. C. Green, 

 Staten Island, best three fancy varieties — Wm. Chorlton, do., do. ; best 

 three specimens of scarlet — Alexander Gordon, gardener to E. Hoyt, Asto- 

 ria ; second best do. — Wm. Vanderventers, Astoria. 



Fuchsias — Best six specimens — John Humphrey, gardener to F. Howe, 

 Brooklyn ; second best do — Martin Collopy, gardener to J. H. Prentice , 

 special premium — Geo. Hamlin, gardener to W. C. Langley, Brooklyn. 



Cacti — Special premium — Luke Mullin, Seventy-eighth street, Bloom- 

 ingdale. 



Ericas — Best three specimens — L. Menand, Albany. 



Fruits — The fruits consisted of strawberries, cherries and a few nectarines 

 and lemons. The following kinds of strawberries were exhibited : Long- 

 worth's seedling, Seneck's staminata, Boston pine, Hovey's seedling, Iowa, 

 Picton pine, a very large sort, white ; Livingston seedling, Prince Albert, 

 white ; black pine, a dark deep red, &c. 



