HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 345 



PENNSYLVANIA HOTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



October 18, 1853. 



The stated meeting of the society was held in the Lecture Room of the 

 Museum this evening. 



Dr. Wra. D. Brincklc, Vice President, in the chair. 



The following Premiums were awarded: 



Design of Cut Flowers, for the best, to Thos. Meehan, gardener to Caleb 

 Cope ; for the second best, to Joseph Cook. Basket of cut flowers, for the 

 best and for the second best, to Thomas Meehan. . . 



Pears, for the best, the Doyenne Gris, and for the second best, the Duch- 

 esne d'Angouleme, to Mrs. J. B. Smith. 



Special Premiums. — Two dollars for a fine display of Grapes, to H. B. 

 Tilden. One dollar for a display of Reine Claude de Bavay Plums, to 

 Thomas Meehan. The Apples exhibited, although of fine appearance, were 

 unripe, and not in condition to test. 



The fruit committee submitted the following : 



AD INTERIM FRUIT REPORT. 



To the President Penna. Hort. Society : — 



The Fruit Committee respectfully Report, That since the September 

 meeting of the Society, the following Fruits have been submitted to their 

 examination : 



From Alex. Parker, of Moyamensing — A Seedling Peach, nearly three 

 inches in diameter; roundish; dull yellow, with a reddish cheek, and so dark 

 about the base as to appear almost black; flesh yellow, very juicy; flavor 

 delicious; quality "very good." 



From A.M. Eastivick — The Petre Pear, from the original tree— speci- 

 mens very fine, two and three-quarters inches long, by two and one-half 

 broad ; stem variable, in one specimen five-eighths of an inch by one-sixth, 

 in another one and one-quarter by one-eighth ; flavor luscious j quality 

 "best." 



From Isaac B. Baxter — The Jane Peach (Baxter's Seedling, No. l)j 

 large, ten and one-half inches in circumference ; roundish oblate ; greenish 

 yellowish white, with a red cheek; free; flavor delicious; quality "very good" 

 to "best." 



From Mr. Ladd, 242 Filbert Street— The Larissa, a Seedling Pear of 

 small size; obovate pyriform; greenish yellow, a good deal russeted, with a 

 mottled red cheek; flesh rather dry; flavor saccharine and pleasant; quality 

 scarcely "good." 



From Peter Williamson, 296 South Second Street — Specimens of a 

 Seedling English Walnut, of extraordinary size and excellence; two and 

 one-sixteenth inches long, and one and five-eighths wide, .one and one-half 

 thick; shell remarkable for its thinness ; kernel delicious ; quality "best." 

 The tree sprung from an imported nut planted in 1848, and is now fifteen 



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