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THE FLORIST AND 



For the best maroon tipped, to .fas. Nugent, $1. 



For the best twenty-four dissimilar blooms, to Messrs. Hovey & Co., $7, 



Second best to Parker Barnes, $5. 



For the best eighteen dissimilar blooms to Jas. Hyde & Son, $6. 



Second best to Jas. Nugent, $4. 



For the best twelve dissimilar blooms, to Hovey & Co.,' $5. 



Second best, to Azell Bowditch, €3» 



PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The twenty-fifth Annual exhibition of this Society, was held in the Chi- 

 nese Museum, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 21st, 22d -and 23d 

 of September. • % •. . " . 



The display of plants and flowers was as usual varied and interesting: no 

 where are to be seen rarer plants, or more beautiful flowers. The lower 

 Saloon, which was used for this part of the display, was arranged as usual 

 with rows of tables, on which were shown contributions from the various 

 collections of our amateurs and nurserymen, the collections of plants and 

 cut flowers for premiums. For the first premium were shown three collec- 

 tfoft 8 by amateurs, and two by nurserymen. Among the plants worthy of 

 note were the Cissus discolor, and the Dictyanthus Pavonii, in the collection 

 of J. F. Knorr; the Brownea grandiceps in that of F. Lennig ; the Ne- 

 penthes Rafflesiana belonging to James Dundas ; the flowers and leaves of 

 Nelumbium speciosum, and Saccolabium Blumei major and Peristeria, from 

 Mr. Cope, and Cattleya bicolor from Mr. Buist. 



The upper saloon was tastefully ornamented with wreaths of Laurel and 

 Hemlock boughs : a great improvement on former years. The display of 

 fruits, especially of grapes, which were arranged around a rustic temple at 

 the west end of the room, was very good. The Vegetables, which occupied 

 the eastern half of the room, divided from the fruits by a pavilion decorated 

 with evergreens and plants, were as usual in great profusion. The number 

 of visitors was almost a third larger than for some years previous ; and taken 

 altogether the exhibition was one of the most successful We ever had. 



The designs were — a large fountain from Mr. Raabe ; a summerhouse 

 from Mr. Copk, and a design of cottage and garden from Robert Egee. 



Premiums Awarded for Plants and Cut-fl 



owers. 



For the best collection of 20 plants in pots, $15, to Jerome Graff, gard- 

 ener to J. F. Knorr. For 



Nierembergia grandiflora, 

 A. Aubletia, A. grandiflora, 

 Veronica Andersonii, 

 Pictyanthus Pavonii, 

 Geranium Tom Thumb, 

 Ipomoea sp., 

 Schubertia graveolens, 

 Begonia fuchsioides, 

 Abelia rupestris, 

 Beaumontia grandiflora. 



Allamanda cathartica, 

 Cissus discolor, 

 Clerodendron squamatum, 

 Lycopodium coesium arboreum, 

 Ipomoea ficifolia, 

 Pharbitis limbata, 

 Nepenthes distillatoria, 

 B. manicata, 

 Tabernoemontana longiflora, 



