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In the latest issue of L' Illustration Horticole^ the 

 following subjects are figured and described : — 



Elais guineensis. — A fine tropical palm which 

 attains a height of forty to sixty feet. It is of 

 graceful habit, the head resembling a gigantic plume 

 of dark green feathers. 



Camellia Mistress Dombrain. — A beautifully 

 imbricated flower; blush with soft lilac shades." 



Jacaranda digitaliflora albiflora.— a su- 

 perb white-flowered variety of this noble plant, which 

 is rarely seen in flower in our collections. 



Primula intermedia. — A charming garden hy- 

 brid ; the flowers in dense trusses, the color deep 

 purplish-crimson, with distinct yellow eye ; quite a 

 gem among herbaceous plants. It was admirably 

 shown by Mr. Bull at the MetropoKtan exhibitions, 

 in the spring of 1866, 



Camellia Marianna Talentl — A fine Conti- 

 nental variety, remarkable alike for its foliage and 

 flowers. The latter are large, hemispherical and of 

 great substance ; the color bright carmine red, with 

 a few distinct and sharp stripes of white. 



Juglans macrophylla. — From the North of 

 China. Leaves upwards of 3 feet long, and the 

 fruit 15 to 20 in a cluster. It is perfectly hardy, 

 and altogether one of the most beautiful foliage 

 plants ever introduced. 



Taxus adpressa stricta. — Has leaves precisely 

 like T. adpressa, but every plant is furnished with 

 a strong lead, which it makes even from a side 

 branch. 



Anthyrium Goringianum tricolor. —This is 

 a most beautiful haray variegated Fern. One can- 

 not conceive a more beautiful object than a plant of 

 this, growing on a shady bank or rock-work out-of- 

 doors. 



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Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadel- 

 phia, — We stated, last spring, that this Institution 

 would attempt to raise $100,000 before Januarj 1st, 

 1867, to build itself a New Hall. As this Society 

 is a source of national pride, in many respects, we 

 hoped subscriptions would come in from all quar- 

 ters. The amount has, we are much pleased to say, 

 been raised, but entirely by Philadelphians, and 

 nearly one-half by the members themselves. 



The Hall of the Pennsylvania Horticul- 

 tural Society, now being built on Broad Street, 

 will be the largest Horticultural Hall in this country, 



— and probably in the world. The entire building 

 is 75 feet front by 200 feet deep, and 60 feet high, 

 being as long as the upper saloon of the Chinese 

 Museum was before it was burnt, and 15 feet wider, 

 with aground floor longer than that of the lower sa- 

 loon of the Museum building. The Hall will, there- 

 fore, enable the Society to get up their Autumnal 

 Exhibitions on a scale of splendor fully equal, if not 

 superior, to those held in the Chinese Museum. 



Water pipes will be introduced into the building 

 for the supply of fountains, cascades, &c. A nar- 

 row gallery will extend around 3 sides of the Hall, 

 which will enable visitors to look down on the entire 

 display. The Hall will be brilliantly lighted with tri- 

 ple rows of brackets, with 3 to 5 gas lights on each 

 (covered with ground glass globes) extending around 

 the sides of the Hall, leaving a clear space in the 

 middle of 70 feet wide by 50 feet high, and nearly 

 200 feet long ; — this includes the Foyer, a beautiful 

 room of 30 by 70 feet, with 30 ft. ceiling, — opening 

 into the main Hall, — in which the monthly meet- 

 ing of the Society will be held, and in which its val- 

 uable Library will be placed. 



The Ladies of the Society will hold a grand "Ba- 

 zaar," for the sale of horticultural, floricultural and 

 fancy articles, on the 29th of May, next, in the 

 New Hall, at which time the Society will also hold 

 its Spring Exhibition and competition for Roses, 

 Strawberries, &c., the whole forming a grand Hor- 

 ticultural Display and Bazaar, the proceeds of 

 which will be devoted to decorating the Hall, It 

 has not yet been decided when the formal opening 

 of the Hall will take place, but early in the spring 

 of 1867, of which due notice will be given. 



Strawberry Culture near Boston.— At the 

 last New York State Fair, Marshal P. Wilder, of 

 Boston, said he disliked to make large statements, 

 but it was no uncommon thing to produce 4,000 

 quarts per acre, of Strawberries, in the vicinity of 

 Boston. The best method of cultivation is to turn 

 uver a piece of new land that never has grown the 

 Strawberry, and dress it with ashes. Plant in the 

 spring, take only one crop, and then plow up. This 

 is the system very successfully practiced at Bel- 

 mont, in the vicinity of Boston. It is the perfect 

 system. Growers generally get from 3,000 to 4,000 

 quarts per acre, and they bring the highest prices. 

 Our standard of berries is high, and we are not sat- 

 isfied with the Wilson. It will not bring, in the 

 Boston market, more than two-thirds as much as 

 some other kinds. The popular berry with us is 

 Hovey's Seedling. It is a pistillate, and requires 

 skill in cultivation, but will produce the most mone3^ 



