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for a collection of Roses ; to Wm. Sinton, gardener to Dr. Rush, $5 for a 

 beautiful collection of miscellaneous plants ; to Isaac Collins, gardener to 

 Gen. Patterson, $3 for two very fine specimens of Strelitzia regina ; the 

 attention of the society was called to a good collection of cut flowers from 

 Mrs. Holbrook, New York, David Scott, gardener. 



By the Fruit. Committee— Special premiums, to Albinus L. Felten $3 for 

 a fine collection of Strawberries in pots with ripe fruit ; to Jerome Graff, 

 gardener to C. Cope, $2 for four bunches of Black Hamburg Grapes ; and 

 to H. N. Johnson $1 for seven very fine Lemons. The committee noticed 

 a dish of very fine Apples for Dr. E. S. Hull, of Alton, 111. 



By the Committee on Vegetables — Rhubarb, for the best twelve stalks, to 

 Samuel Cooper ; Asparagus, for the best twenty-four stalks, to James M. 

 Tage, Burlington, N. J., and for the second best to Jerome Graff; display 

 by a market gardener, for the best to A. L. Felten ; and a special premium 

 of $1 to Jerome Graff, for three dishes of very fine Tomatoes. 



The Committee for the distribution of Seeds, &c., reported, that they 

 considered it inexpedient for our society to join in the proposed plan of the 

 New York Horticultural Society in procuring the seeds of trees, shrubs, &c, 

 indigenous to Oregon and Upper California ; which report was accepted. 



The Special Committee on the Flower Market reported that they deemed 

 it inexpedient for the society to take action at this time. 



The chairman of the special committee, to whom the preamble and reso- 

 lutions submitted at the last stated meeting in relation to the publication of 

 the excepted portion of the Ad Interim Report of the Fruit Committee w T ere 

 referred, reported verbally that there were no instructions accompanying 

 the reference ; and after various motions and considerable discussion, the 

 committee was discharged from further consideration of the subject. 



Member Elected — William Thompson. 



Objects Exhibited. 



Plants — By Robert Buist — Shown for the first time: Dendrobium 

 Cambridgeanum, D. Boothii, Tropaeolum speciosum, Begonia Xanthina, 

 Fancy Pelargonia — Argus, Gipsy Queen and magnum bonum ; Cattleya 

 labiata, Maxillaria lutescens, Azalea Maitlandii, A. variegata, A. lateritia, 

 Cineraria, Adelia Villars, Tropasolum tricolorum, Ixora coccinea, Sollya 

 heterophylla, Allamanda nereifolia, Tremandra verticillata, Erica ovata, 

 Epacris laevigata, Pelargonium Royalist; Specimen, Cuphea platycentra — 

 Pelargonia, Virgin Queen, Mary, Ninon de L. Enclos, Ondine, Sir Henry 

 Smith, Admiration, Fancy, Parodi, and Specimen Ytolmskii. 



By John Pollock, gardener to James Dundas — Shown for the first time : 

 Shomburgkia lilicina, Stigmaphyllon ciliatum, Cuphea platycentra, Alia- 



