ing a dome covered with laurel, and within this apartment an equestrian statue of Washington, and above the dome a small temple enclosing a globe completed the device, which was appropriately ornamented with evergreen and flowers. This had the first premium.

An accurate model representing the western entrance to Castle Point, the domain of E. A. Stevens, at Hoboken, the stone work in like manner beautifully represented by lichens.

Also an accurate miniature representation of a twenty-five feet section of the curvilinear grapery on the same premises as the gate entrance; the sash were represented by acorns on wire, the glass by Gomphrena flowers; the original of these two latter devices was by Mr. Mountain. Mr. H. also exhibited a pair of tastefully formed wreaths.

By Peter Raabe:-An hexagonal arbor, an appropriate and simple device universally admired; the supports or columns were of red cedar entwined with wreaths of laurel interspersed with flowers, the open covering represented by similar wreaths. From above and within was suspended a cage containing a delightful canary warbler. It was carpeted with moss; within stood a rustic table on which were placed a tastefully formed basket of cut flowers and a bouquet; by the side of the table a rustic chair upon which lay a half-formed bouquet, gardener's knife and twine, and scattered about on the carpet and table cut flowers, conveying the idea of an horticulturist's employment. Also a beautiful basket of cut flowers. This was awarded the second premium.

By Joseph Cook:-A rustic lounge, completely enveloped with moss and flowers standing upon a floral carpet, in front of which was placed a table covered with moss and flowers. Also, a beautiful centre table with moss covering, and on the top displaying cut roses of the finest kinds. Awarded the third premium.

By Maurice Finn, gardener to John Lambert :-A square tower with spire rising to the height of about 16 feet, with evergreen covering interwoven with flowers. Also a handsome basket of cut flowers. Awarded the fourth premium.

By Patrick Gallagher, gardener to Miss Gratz:-A model of a secretary of original form completely enveloped in green and ornamented with flowers. By Ben Daniels, gardener to Caleb Cope :-An evergreen model of a temple, a neat structure festooned with the choicest grapes. A beautiful bouquet and tastefully arranged basket of cut flowers, and a pair of wreaths.

The display of fruit was good for the year, and the variety, particularly of apples and grapes, quite numerous. Of foreign grapes, Mr. Buist exhibited about thirty kinds, among them the Gros Gromier du Cantal, Decan Superb, Raisin des Carmes, and Cochin China seedling. Of pears the variety was not large, but the following native sorts were exhibited by different cultivators :-Fulton, Lodge, Petre, Moyamensing, Haddington, Pennsylvania, Henrietta, Lewis, Spice (?), Wilkinson, Washington, Seckel, and one or two seedlings. Mr. T. Hancock exhibited 32 foreign varieties. Of apples the show was large. Mr. Hancock had 95 kinds and Mr. John Perkins, 63. The show of vegetables was large and excellent.-(Report.)

Cincinnati Horticultural Society.-This society held its autumnal exhibition on the 26th of September, and continued open four days. On Wednesday, according to the report of the committee which has just reached us, the exhibition was exceedingly fine, and gave general satisfaction to the members and the public; considering the unpropitious year for fruit, there was a fine show, and the display of plants and flowers was extensive and fine. The committee state that :

"This exhibition, although too late in the season for the display of many of our choicest fruits and most beautiful flowers, was yet, through the good taste and laborious exertions of some of our most distinguished horticulturists, far more interesting to the scientific amateur, and more pleasing to the mere looker on, than was supposed to be within the compass of our best exertions.

The floral department-a proper appreciation and encouragement of which in any community is a proof of the prevalence of a pure and refined taste was eminently attractive, and gave striking evidence of care and skill-of laborious exertion and minute attention-on the part of the exhibitors, honorable alike to their mental and physical characteristics.

The decorations were of such a kind, and arranged with such good taste, as to produce a singularly pleasing effect. The great hall in the Masonic buildings in which the exhibition was held, is 115 feet long, 56 in breadth, and about 24 feet high. At the entrance there was a short avenue of cedar trees, terminated by two Doric columns supporting an arch covered with evergreens and decorated with flowers and wreaths; a thicket of evergreens and large greenhouse plants extended from the columns to the walls. In the centre of the hall and extending about two thirds of its length, was the principal table, on which the fruits, the smaller decorative designs, many greenhouse plants and various flowers were arranged. Against the wall on each side was a table of about the same length as that in the centre. The one on the south was appropriated to vegetables and greenhouse plants, that on the north to flowers, ornamental devices, and plants of various kinds.

In the centre of the south aisle, Mrs. Heaver's ornamental design was placed, and on the north aisle Mr. Jackson's. The former sustained well the reputation for good taste and skill in ornamental designs which Mrs. H. acquired at the last year's exhibition. It was a square Gothic temple with pinnacles, flying buttresses, and other regular Gothic attributes, with a spire, the top of which was about 18 feet from the floor. The whole covered with moss and adorned with flowers, neatly arranged. The floor was a mosaic of dahlias to which there was an ascent of several steps, and on the platform was placed Mr. Platt Evens's globe of gold fish.

Mr Jackson's design was a Gothic Monument, in the style of those in Europe called Crosses, from the circumstance of their being each surmounted by a cross, which they are built to sustain. It was of an octagonal form, the parts finely proportioned, and with all the decorations appropriate to that kind of monuments. It was covered with moss and ornamented very gorgeously with dahlias, those splendid flowers, of which he has

exhibited such remarkably fine specimens this season. The height was about 18 or 20 feet, its proportions were remarkably good, and altogether it formed a striking and attractive point in the exhibition.

Near the west end of the hall, in the centre, was Mrs. Hoffner's beautiful Floral Cottage, which with its accessories formed a point of attraction altogether irresistible. The cottage was about six feet square, and with the two steps of ascent about 8 or 9 feet high. It was formed of lattice and wire work, in which the following climbing vines were so skilfully interwoven as to cover it entirely, without showing any redundance, viz :— Lophosperma scandens, Maurandya, Barclayana pink and blue, Manettia coccinea, Ipomea Learii and I. coccinea, and scarlet and white Cypress vines. These were kept constantly flowering the whole of the exhibition, being planted in cases on each side, made for the purpose, covered with moss, and sustaining also several varieties of oxalis in blossom. At each corner of the cottage was a marble statue (about three feet high,) each representing one of the four seasons. Two lambs sculptured in marble, lay one on each side of the steps leading into the cottage, and in the interior were a chair and table; on the latter was a globe of gold-fish, above which hung a rare and curious orchid, the Stanhopea tigrina, with a spike of its strange and beautiful blossoms hanging downwards, while its leaves were growing upwards out of a bulb of moss, which was made to furnish as near a resemblance to its usual habitat on the branch of a high tree as possible. The chair (and sometimes another) was occasionally occupied by a beautiful child, who dispensed bouquets of flowers to such as made suitable application for them.

The smaller designs were in good taste, and produced a pleasing effect,— Mr. McAvoy's moss vase and bouquet of flowers, however, must not be classed among them; for it was 8 or 9 feet high and 5 or 6 feet in circumference. The bouquet which filled it was composed of fine flowers arranged with great care and labor, and large enough for the Queen of the Giants.

Mrs. McAvoy's Wreath which was thirty-six feet long, extending from the centre to the wall, was also a work displaying great good taste and much careful labor in its formation and arrangement. The premium, however, was adjudged to Mr. Sayer's wreath, extending from the same centre to the opposite wall. They were so near alike that they appeared to be

but one.

A wreath of evergreens extended along the centre of the hall, and the two iron columns at the west end were wreathed with the same.

The other designs will be mentioned in the awards: they exhibit great good taste, and most of them being works of ladies, give indication of an interest on the part of the better half of humanity, in our horticultural pursuits, which will ensure a continuation of successful efforts in the path of improvement.

The catalogue of plants at this exhibition, shows that much attention has been given by our horticulturists to the collection and care of rare and curious exotics, and we have good reason to expect from them more aid in developing the vegetable wealth,-the rare and valuable products of the

vegetable kingdom,-of this continent, than is usually looked for in what was so lately the backwoods of our country.

The floral department, although it was more full than either of the others, might have been extended very considerably, if it had been judged expedient."

FLOWERS: The principal exhibitors of plants and flowers, were the President, Mr. Ernst; S. S. Jackson, who exhibited about 30 plants; Jacob Hoffner, who displayed the large number of 150 plants, some of them rare; William Heaver, about 28 plants; H. Brachman, 28 plants, and N. Longworth, about 40 plants, &c.

FRUITS: The department of fruits was by no means as well represented as that of flowers, but it might have appeared to much greater advantage if our fruit cultivators could be brought to the belief that it would be proper for them to exhibit the best they have, even if they have no hopes of having premiums awarded to it. The causes of an extraordinary deficiency of fruits are referred to in the report of the Council.

R. Buchanan exhibited 23 varieties of apples, 2 of pears, and 5 of grapes, including a White Catawba. Dr. Petticolas, 27 varieties of apples. M. S. Wade, 12 varieties of apples. F. B. Williams, 8 varieties of apples. J. F. Warder, 20 baskets of peaches, mostly seedlings. N. Longworth, 10 varieties of grapes, raised under glass, among them the Victoria; also, 8 varieties of native grapes.

The display of vegetables was large and excellent.—(Report.)

ART. V. Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

Saturday, Nov. 3d.-An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day, the President in the chair.

The Chairman of Flower Committee reported the list of premiums awarded during the year. [This will appear in our January number.]

Mr. Haggerston submitted a vote, recommending an alteration in the rules and regulations of the exhibitions, so as to exclude all but members from competing for premiums; also, that no member shall be entitled to a gratuity on plants, fruits, &c., unless offered in competition for the respective premiums, as advertised by the Society, and the gratuity shall in no case exceed the lowest premium; also, that the 17th rule be amended by striking out all after the first clause.

The whole was submitted to the committee appointed at the last meeting. A committee of three was appointed to correspond with the leading horticultural societies of the country in regard to an arrangement of the time for holding the annual exhibitions of 1850, so as to be convenient and advantageous to the members, and C. M. Hovey, the Treasurer, and the Recording Secretary, were appointed the committee.

The Committee on Exchanges with M. Vattemare, reported that they

had attended to the duty assigned them, furnishing him with duplicate copies of all the Transactions of the Society.

The Recording Secretary sent in his resignation, saying he was about to leave the vicinity, and a committee was appointed to nominate and report a new candidate at the next meeting, and J. S. Cabot, Jos. Breck, and E. Wight, were appointed the committee.

On motion of Mr. Cabot it was voted, that the thanks of the Society be presented to the Recording Secretary, and, as a mark of esteem for his services, a piece of plate not exceeding in value thirty-five dollars.

The President and Treasurer were appointed a committee to carry out the vote.

B. M. Watson, Plymouth, C. Heard, Brighton, and A. Lackey, Marblehead, were admitted members.

Adjourned two weeks, to November 17th.

Exhibited.-FRUIT: From O. Johnson, very fine specimens of R. I. Greening apples. From A. Wood, fine Newtown Pippins. From J. Owen, Lewis, Napoleon, Le Curé, Glout Morceau, Beurré Diel, Bezi de la Motte, Bicknall, and three other sorts of pears. From J. B. Mantel, an unnamed pear-inferior. From Hovey & Co., Belle Epine Dumas pears. Nov. 10th.-Exhibited.-FRUIT: From the President, Swan's Orange pear. From J. Lovett, 2d, very large and beautiful Beurré Diel and Urbaniste pears. From A. Aspinwall, fine Beurré Diel pears. From Josiah Stickney, fine Coffin's Virgoulouse pears. From D. Hall, Medford, Beurré Diel pears. From John Gordon, Queen of the Low Countries pear. Seedling pears from F. Tudor, Esq., too ripe to test their quality—size large, and a good looking pear. From Hovey & Co., Knight's Monarch pear, exceedingly melting, rich and fine, fully equal to its reputation, also Belle Epine Dumas pears. Seedling apple by J. M. Blaney, small and of pleasant flavor.

VEGETABLES: From R. Sherwin, 8 large potatoes, weighing 8 pounds six ounces. From A. Hatch, Saugus, a dish of potatoes, raised from the ball, the product of one seed. From J. E. Teschemacher, Endive, very fine.

Nov. 17th.-An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day,-the President in the chair.

The committee appointed to nominate a member to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the Recording Secretary, reported the name of the Rev. D. Leach, who was elected to that office.

Mr. A. Bowditch was chosen a member of the Committee on Flowers, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of E. C. R. Walker.

Mr. Haggerston presented a resolution which he requested should be appended to the Report of the Committee on Flowers. It proposed a vote of thanks to the President of the Society for his beautiful exhibition of flowers, and for his liberality in not competing for premiums and refusing all gratuities. The resolution was unanimously accepted.

D. W. Lincoln, Worcester, W. F. Weld, Boston, A. W. Haven, Portsmouth, C. H. P. Plympton, and Otis Brewer, Boston, were elected members of the Society.

Adjourned two weeks, to December 1.