The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-21
CITY INTELLIGENCE.


HORTICULTURE AND OUR HORTICULTURAL So
CIETY.-The August meeting and exhibition OF
this interesting and hourishIng society was held
last evening, in the foyer of The new hall. The
attendance was ample, and the exhibition,
though not large, was very fine. President d.
Rodney King presided at the business meeting,
at which fifty. seven candidates for membership
were balloted for and elected.
The President called attention to the grand au-
tumnal exhibition ofthe society on the 24th, 10Th,
and 26tn days of September. The objects OF the
exhibition are:-By competition to encourage
those practically engaged in gardening TO study
and aim at perfection, and by the exhibition
of the best specimens of gardening skill to en-
teftain aud instruct the members OF the society.
The commlCtee are anxious to make this annual
exhibition the first in the new hall-sustaln
the already re-eminent reputation OF Pennsyl-
wanna as a Horticultural State, and ask that all
will aid the committee by encouraging their
friends to send IN specimens OF their garden
and orchard products. In addition to the ragu-
lar premiums, the committee oher for the deco
ration OF the hall;-
For the best collection of plants, not less
than feet high, in tubs, not less than oo
For the best 6, 1900
Second best g. SUI
Third hest G. 400
Best 3, 6OO
Best single specimen, 800
not wanted for competition, which could be
used in the decoration of the hail. as we'll as
collections of smaller plants, and anything of
horticultural interest generally, may be loaned
by their possessors. In the regular schedule of
premiums $40 is offered for the best design OF
cut flowers suited to the decoration of the hall.
The best care win be taken OF the plants and
other articles on exhibition. 1t would help the
committee to properly prepare for their recep-
tion if exhibitors would send list OF their artl-
cles few days prior to the meeting to j. h.
Mitchell, Esq, horticultural Hail. Chairman oi
the Committee of Arrangements.
The floral attractions last evening were espe
cially beautiful; the fruit, however, save thai
grown in lighthouses, is wotully deficient In Its
Usual flavor Exhibitors mourn the absence
of SUM- that adds vinous richness to the summer
fruits and deplore the rains that have dimin
ished their size and diluted therplquant haVor
The pears exhibited are comparatively lnslpld
willie grapes and nectarlnes are luscious au'
rich to a degree.
Donald McQuinn, gardener to Joshua Long
streth showed superb nectarines, while SOM
splendid specimens were also shown by Geofg
Huster, gardener 20 Hon. Alexander Cummings
late of Colorado. EEdt2
Grapes weighing several pounds 10 the Ounch
grown under glass, were eXhlOlted by MISS hel
tie Trimble, of West Chester, who, we are told
has more than fifteen hundred pounds OF then
in a single grapeIy. Beginning as an amateur
she now Is raising them1or sale with sigma
success. E4
Mr.. FELTON, showed forty-two varieties of vege
tables, including several new tomatoes an
celery OF full SIZE grown in the unprecedente
short period of six weeks.
Charles HaTmar ESQ. Gray's Ferry road
showed the Harrison potato murphy" c
such iecundity as to yield oftentimes twenty
five In hill.
President KING introduced variety of toms
toes averaging twenty inches in circumference
the largest, fnot the best, ever exhibited.
Mr.. LoIin Blodget showed tomatoes, grow
against the garden wall of his residence, /
South Broad street that hung, in clusters iik
In flowers Mr.. Henry A. Dreer exhibited tbirt
varieties of gladioli, the japan lily. nine inche
in diameter, and baskets of cut flowers of woT
derful beauty. Some attention was attracte
also by the largeness and beauty of the aster
from the garden OF Governor Cummings.
The usual display OF hot-house plants ws
Tnade-a feature of this city excelled by no otht
I'm the Union. OF outdoor plants were show
scarcely any. Like fruits they have sufferC
from approximation