DIVISION B. CLASS I. For the best twenty-four dissimilar blooms, to W. Quant, $800 For the second best eighteen dissimilar blooms, to J. L. L. F. CLASS III.-For the best twelve dissimilar blooms, to Messrs. Hovey & Co., For the second best twelve dissimilar blooms, to W. Quant, 6 00 4 00 5 00 3 00 As we could not get the names of all the varieties which took the prizes, the following are named as among those in the prize stands :-Beeswing, crimson, Antagonist, white; Cleopatra, yellow; Arethusa, purple ; Purity, white; Biondetta, buff; Vicomte de Ressigneur, tipped; Constantia, edged; Primrose, sulphur; Lady Cooper, rose; Golden Rule, yellow; La tour l'Auvergne, scarlet; Cheltenham Queen, white; Sir Edward Antrobus, crimson; Caleb Cope, vivid rose; La Polka, primrose; Ultimatum, fine scarlet; Ithuriel, buff shaded with pink; Ansel's Unique, yellow tipped with red; La Belle Blonde, white tipped with lavender; Lady St. Maur, white tipped with light purple; Princess Alice, white; Essex Triumph, very dark; Essex Champion, bright orange; Princess Radzville, white laced with purple ; Harlequin, white edged with scarlet, Lady Charleville, fine lilac; Victory of Sussex, maroon; Monsieur Walner, deep crimson with white edge; Indispensible, white; King of Lilac; Fleur de Gand, lilac; Spitfire, scarlet; Essex Champion, scarlet. A ward of premiums for flowers : BOUQUETS. For the best six band bouquets, to Ilovey & Co., $2. For the second best, to A McLennan, $1. For the best parlor bouquet, to Messrs. Winships, $2. GRATUITIES.—To the President, for a display of dahlias, $6. To J. Breck & Co., for a display of dahlias, $5. To W. Kenrick, for a large bouquet, $1. VEGETABLES. From Hazen Hazeltine, one dozen celery. October 9th.-An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day,— the President in the chair. There being no business before the meeting,-adjourned for one week. Exhibited.-FLOWERS: From the President of the Society, Joseph Breck & Co., Hovey & Co., Parker Barnes, Emery Bemis, J. L. L. F. Warren, John Parker, William Meller, O. H. Mather, A. Bowditch, John Hovey, Kendall Bailey, T. Seward and others, superb collections of dahlias, embracing numerous fine varieties and specimens. From J. L L. F. Warren, two pyramidal and six hand bouquets. From J. Hovey, two mantel bouquets, and two plants of Amaryllis Belladonna. From A. Bowditch, five hand bouquets. From W. Meller, two mantel bouquets. From James Nugent, nine hand bouquets. From Hovey & Co., two mantel and six hand bouquets. From John Quant, one pyramidal bouquet. Premiums were awarded as follows: BOUQUETS. For the best six hand bouquets, to Messrs. Hovey & Co., $2. For the second best, to J. Nugent, $1. For a pyramidal bouquet, to John Quant, a gratuity of $1. FRUITS. From the President of the Society, Duchesse d'Orleans, Beurré Cutter, (? Curtet,) Belle de Brissac, Colmar d'Ete, (?) and Heathcot; also from Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, Swan's Orange pears, very beautiful. From E. Bemis, Cambridgeport, fine specimens of Louise Bonne de Jersey and Frederic de Wurtemberg pears. From Messrs. Hovey & Co., Beurré Crapaud pears, very fine, and Semiana plumns. From J. F. Allen, Gansell's Bergamot, Seckel, Napoleon, Urbaniste, and Ronville pears; also Black Hamburgh grapes, and figs. From T. Needham, Black Hamburgh, Frankindale, Cannon Hall Muscat, Syrian, and Black Hamburgh grapes From J. Munroe, Jr., Chelmsford, Heathcot, Le Curé, and two kinds of pears without names. From W. Meller, Late Royal George, and Heath peaches. From A. Dexter, Deacon Job apples, handsome; Seckel pears. From Kendall Bailey, Isabella grapes, fine. From J. W. Sever, Brown Beurré pears, fine. From G. Merriam, Flemish Beauty, extra large and fine; and Heath and Seedling peaches. From John Gordon, Capiaumont, Napoleon, Brown Beurré, fine specimens, Buffum, and Louise Bonne de Jersey pears. From J. S. Sleeper, Seckel pears, fine. From A. Merriam, Orange pears. From W. H. Blodgett, quinces, large and fine. From J. Washburn, quinces, large and handsome. From L. P. Grosvenor, Pound Royal apples. From J. Arnold, oranges, large and well colored. VEGETABLES.--From T. H. Perkins, by W. Quant, a dozen fine heads of Palestine lettuce. October 16th.-An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day,the President in the chair. The following gentlemen were elected members of the Society:-James H. Welch, Amherst A. Frazar, Boston; J. H. Bacon, Robert Bacon, Medford; Solon Dike, Stoneham; John Donald, Brighton. Adjourned for one week. Exhibited.-FRUITS: From the President of the Society, Colmar d'Aremberg, Beurré Audisson, Doyenné Musqué, Girardin, Doyenné Panaché, Beurré d'Anjou, Beurré de Rhine, Doyenné doré, Belle et Bonne de Hee, Delices Charles, Doyenné Gris, Jalousie de Fontenay Vendee, Bergamot de Brunon, Sargeret, Beurré de Herckman, Petre, Heathcot, and four other sorts without names. From F. Tudor, from his garden at Nahant, Napoleon, Fortuneé, Chaumontelle, Croft Castle, Buffum, Beurré Diel, B. d'Angleterre, Belle et Bonne, Easter Beurré, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Glout Morceau, White Doyenné, Catillac, Seckel, Martin Sec, Prince's, and Uvedale's St. Germain pears also Porter apples, all very handsome specimens. From J. Washburn, Delices d'Hardenpont pears. From J. Gordon, very large and fine specimens of Passe Colmar, Duchesse d'Angouleme, and Queen of the Low Countries pears, and two other sorts. From J. S. Sleeper, handsome Dix pears. From Messrs. Hovey & Co., Excellentissima, Beurré Crapaud, Sargeret, Arboricrite (?), and White Doyenné pears; also a fine specimen of the Swan's Orange, weighing elven ounces, received from Gen. E W. Leavenworth, of Syracuse, N. Y. From S. A. Walker, fine Brown Beurré pears. From K. Bailey, fine Isabella grapes. From E. M. Richards, Pennock, White Calville, Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Pomme d'Api, Black Prince, Dyer, Minister, Spice (?), Walpole, Lyscom, Kilham Hill, American Wine, Fall Sops of Wine, Porter, Boxford, Fall Pippin, Moore's Sweeting, Gardner's Sweeting, Pumpkin Sweeting, Pumpkin Russet, and three varieties of apples unknown; also McLaughlin, Beurré Bosc, Heathcot, Urbaniste, Le Curé, Harrison's Fall Baking, and two varieties of pears unknown; and Orange quinces. From E. Brown, Seckel pears, fine, and Uvedale's St. Germain. From C. Newhall, Napoleon and Urbaniste pears, fine, also Norton's Seedling, and Ohio grapes. From A. D. Williams, Urbaniste, fine, Seckel, and Marie Louise pears. From S. Downer, Jr., Louise Bonne de Jersey pears, fine. From Isaac Fay, Golden Beurré, (?) Easter Beurré, and Capiaumont pears; Oldmixon Freestone peaches, and Semiana plums. From J. B. Chapin, by Capt. Comstock, Capsheaf pears. From J. F. Allen, White Nice, Syrian, Black Hamburgh, Wilmot's No. 16, Wilmot's Black Hamburgh, Portuguese Muscat, (very high flavored,) and White Frontignan grapes; Noblesse peaches, and Seckel pears, fine. From E. Grant, Roxbury, Isabella grapes, finely ripened. From H. Vandine, Cambridgeport, a variety of fine quinces. From T. Needham, Syrian, Black Hamburgh, White Frontignan, White Muscat of Alexandria, and Frankindale grapes, all fine. From Neponset Hotel, a remarkable cluster of 'vedale's St. Germain pears. From S. W. Cole, Pocahontas and Pierce's Seedling pears, and Long Stem apples. From Anson Dexter, Blue Pearmain apples, (?) Passe Colmar and Duchesse de Angouleme pears. The Committee tasted some of the new pears exhibited by the President and Messrs. Hovey & Co., and made the following report. From Samuel Walker, the yewood, rich flavor; Beurré Duval, good. From M. P. Wilder, Colmar d'Aremberg, (premature,) astringent; Delices Charles, handsome, but poor; Beurré d'Anjou; had much the flavor of Brown Beurré, and fully sustained the high character formerly given it by the Committee; Sargeret, inferior; Girardın, pleasant, but not high flavored; Beurré de Rhine, good; Heathcot, fine; Beurré de Herckman, pleasFrom J. Washburn, Delices d'Hardenpont, fine. From Hovey & Co., Beurré Crapaud, good; Excellentissima, fine. It is proper to state that soine of the specimens were not strictly in eating, the rare kinds having heen picked for the September exhibition. ant. VEGETABLES-From F W. Macondry, some fine celery. From Josiah Lovett, 2d, a fiue show of cauliflowers. October 23d.—An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day,— the President in the chair. There being no business before the Society,-it was adjourned one week. ART. V. Retrospective Criticism. Richards's Beurré Pear.-In your October number, page 462, when speaking of the "Richards's Beurré," you place me in a false position, as it leaves the reader to suppose that I had exhibited that fruit us a new variety, when not only myself, but even my children, recognized the fruit as the "Summer Bon Chrétien," the moment we saw it, and I so stated to every one with whom I conversed on the subject. The pears were sent to me by James R. Lawrence, Esq., of Syracuse. So much for this matter. I will now call your attention to the fact, that no specimens of the "Van Zandt's Superb" and "Prince's Paragon" peaches have been exhibited any where the present season, except those exhibited by myself, although I announced that a reward of $10 would be paid in each case for the exhibition of a single genuine fruit grown by any nurseryman who had those varieties in their catalogues. I think this result is conclusive evidence that I was correct in my position, that the trees which have been sold under this name by most persons are spurious. Both are oval fruits, the former of medium, and the latter of large size, and they are varieties of general excellence. I know when and with whom the errors originated, but deemed it the most proper to merely put pomologists on their guard, without mentioning names, &c.—Yours, very respectfully, Wm. R. Prince, Flushing, October 19, 1847. [We did not intend to convey the idea that Mr. Prince did not know that the pears in question were not true-and ought, perhaps, so to have qualified our remarks, although there was no question against the name of Richards's Beurré. We only intended to state that the pears exhibited under this name, without any reference to Mr. Prince, were the old Summer Bon Chrétien, as we knew that Mr. Prince did not raise them, but received them from western New York. The only error of Mr. Prince was, in not placing a query against the name, which many, who did know the particular facts in regard to this variety, supposed to be a new pear.-Ed.] The Fruits of America.-1 see some one in the Horticulturist is letting fly a bolt at your colored fruits. I hope and trust that envy and malice are the cause, and not the badly colored or formed fruit.—Yours, M. W. Phillips, Edwards, Miss., Sept. 1847. [We should have supposed that our correspondent could have seen at once the malice with which the notice was penned. We only regret that the editor should have allowed the insertion of such a pseudo anonymous paragraph, when he well knew the author, as well as the spirit with which it was penned. It happens, however, that the writer is not well able to conceal his style, and, though signed "W., Philadelphia," our Boston friends well know that the author does not reside many miles from this city. But for the query of our correspondent, we should have left Mr. "W." undisturbed in the enjoyment of his self-satisfied criticism.-Ed.] ART. VI.-Obituary. DIED, in this city, on the 24th of October, MR. JAMES WENTWORTH, in the 53d year of his age. It is our painful duty to announce the death of an old and valued friend, one with whom we have had an intimate connexion, as one of the house of Dutton & Wentworth, the well known printers of our Magazine for several years, and of our new work, The Fruits of America. Mr. Wentworth had the principal charge of the book work in their extensive establishment, Mr. Dutton attending to other duties, and it is to his taste and skill, as an experienced printer, that we owe much for the typographical execution of our two works, particularly The Fruits of America. In the issuing of that work, Mr. Wentworth spared no pains, and, without egotism, we may say, that a more finished specimen of the art never appeared in this country. No work came into the office but what passed under his eye, and we have no doubt that his laborious application to his art,-Messrs. D. & W. having been the State Printers for some years,-hastened the disease of which he died. In his death, his family have lost a kind husband, and tender parent, and we deeply sympathize with them in their bereavement. HORTICULTURAL MEMORANDA FOR NOVEMBER. FRUIT DEPARTMENT. Grape Vines, in greenhouse, will now be shedding their leaves, and, where neatness is an object, as it ever should be in the greenhouse, the vines should be carefully gone over every few days with a broom, brushing upwards; this will take off nearly all the leaves which are about to fall, and the house may thus be kept much cleaner; a partial pruning may also be made; that is, to cut off all wood not likely to ripen, or such as is not wanted for another year, not cutting too short, as this can be done at the final pruning next month. Vines in cold houses will require nearly the same treatment if the grapes are all cut. If there are yet some grapes on the vines of late kinds, the house should be well aired every fine day, opening the sashes early in the morning. Grape vines in the open air may be pruned this month, and tender kinds laid down and covered with leaves, straw, or coarse manure. Isabellas may also be pruned now. Strawberry beds should receive a slight covering of some coarse strawy manure, leaves, seaweed, or old haulm. We have covered with each of these, and find very little difference in the keeping of the plants. All that is necessary is sufficient to keep the ground from freezing and thawing, and throwing the plants out of the ground. Raspberry plantations may be now made with good success; but, in the latitude of Boston, they should be laid down, and covered with earth. Fruit trees of all kinds may be safely removed this month. If planted any time before frost, we think it preferable to leaving it till spring. |
