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best, to Charles Miller. Of indigenous flowers : for the best, to Meehan & 

 Saunders. Bouquets — one pair — for the best, to Charles Miller ; for the 

 second best, to Jerome Graff. Special premiums — one dollar, to John 

 Pollock, gardener to James Dundas, or orchids, &c ; one dollar, to Jerome 

 Graff, for a design of cut-flowers, and two dollars to John Lambert's gar- 

 dener, for a collection of annuals, balsams, coxcombs and asters. 



By the Committee on Fruits — Grapes — 3 bunches of a black variety, to 

 John Riley, gardener to Insane Asylum, for Black Hamburg ; for the se- 

 cond best, to William Grassie, gardener to C. P. Fox, for the same variety. 

 Of a White variety — for the best, to Anthony J. Smith, Eden Hall, for 

 White Syrian, and for second best, to the same for Frontignac. Plums — 

 for the best, the Reine Claude, and for the second best, the Abricotte, to 

 Isaac Baxter. Peaches — for the best, the Jane, to the same. Pears — for 

 the best, to the same. 



Special Premiums. — One dollar each, to Jerome Graff, gardener to C. 

 Cope, for the Stanwick Nectarine ; to John Riley, for West's St. Peters's 

 Grape ; to William Johns, for very fine Tokay Grapes, and to Mrs. Mar- 

 kau's gardener, for the Moyamensing Pear. 



The Committee allude to a fine specimen of the Lawton Blackberry, re- 

 ceived from the original propagator, William Lawton, of New Rochelle, N. 

 Y. ; some of them weighing 86 grains with the stem. 



By the Committee on Vegetables — Display for the best, by a market 

 gardener, to A. L. Felten. 



The Committee on Finance reported, that the Treasurer's semi-annual 

 statement was correct. 



The Recording Secretary reported the estimated losses, sustained by the 

 Society, by the fire at Philadelphia Museum building, on the 5th of July. 



The Committee, to whom was referred, the subject of an autumnal Ex- 

 hibition, reported a recommendation, after mature deliberation, to intermit, 

 for this season, the usual grand exhibition, and solicit all contributors to 

 send their Horticultural products to the great State Fair, to be held at 

 Powelton, on the 26th of September, which was approved of by the So- 

 ciety ; and a Committee of 12 members were ordered to be appointed to 

 assist a similar Committee from the State Agricultural Society, in conduct- 

 ing the Horticultural department. 



On motion, ordered that fifteen delegates be appointed to attend the ses- 

 sion of the American Pomological Society, to meet at Boston, on the 18th 

 of September next. 



Two gentlemen were elected resident members of the Society. 



