334 Floral Designs. 
Mr. James Wilson exhibited a large flat bouquet for mantle vase, 
composed oi" roses, hjdrange, larkspurs, pseonies, honej^suckles, &c. — 
a flat baud bouquet, composed of hoj'as, scabious, epacris, camellias, 
moss rose buds, pinks, geraniums, &c., to which the committee awarded 
the premium of $1 ; also a round hand bouquet composed of about the 
same varieties, to which the committee awarded the premium of $1. 
Mr. Joel Ratlibone exhibited two beautiful basket bouquets, with 
handles composed of roses, pinks, &c. ; also a large pyramidal floral 
design. 
Mr. D. T. Vail exhibited a large round bouquet for centre table vase, 
composed of roses, pinks, larkspurs, calceolarias, &c., to which the com- 
mittee awarded the premium of $2. 
Mr. Wm. Newcomb exhibited a large flat bouquet for mantle vase, 
composed of a choice collection of rare and beautiful perennial and 
biennial flowers : — verbenas, ten varieties, campanula pyramidalis, pearl 
flower, pelargonium, periwinkle, pinks, diauthus barbatus, varieties car- 
nation, louicera, trumpet monthly, do. variegated, cyanus-major, six va- 
rieties roses, burnet, red moss, nigra, and three other varieties, delphiuum 
ajaces, do. elatum, do. grandiflora, do. cerulea, French rocket, phloxes, 
lilies, polcmoniums, white and purple, lupinus polyphyllus, feathered 
hyacinth, flos adonis, iris, yellow and blue, columbines, silens, rose 
acacia, gum acacia, escholtsia Californica, musk flower, paeonia, whitlejii, 
humci and fragrans, myasotis, garden elder, lychnis flore pleno, to which 
the committee awarded the premium of $2; also, a small hand bouquet, 
comiwsed of roses, verbenas, leathered hyacinths, Greek polimohium, 
&c., &c. 
Mr, John Wilcox exhibited a large floral design, of pyramidial shape 
and leanhig, (alter the manner of the Tower of Pisa,) composed of roses, 
lilies, paeonias, larkspurs, pinks, campauulaes, valerians, phloxes, &c., 
&c., $2. 
JOHN B. GALE, Chairman, 
ERASTUS H. PEASE, 
ABEL FRENCH, Committee. 
FLORAL DESIGNS. 
Among the splendid bouquets exhibited at the meeting of the 
Horticultural Society, in the saloon of the Geological Museum, 
on the 14th ult., none seemed to attract more attention than the 
large and splendid Floral Pyramid, exhibited by John Wilcox. 
It was about four feet in height, two feet at the base, composed 
of some thousands of flowers, and of almost every hue and color 
that is penciled by the prolific hand of nature, and so disposed as 
to form various figures on the sides of the column. This beautiful 
pyramid was designed and executed by Miss Plank, of Catskill, 
and what is much more to her credit, we are informed the flowers 
were grown under her care and supervision. 
