Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-22
MEETING OFTHE HORTICULTU
RAJ SOCIETY.
EIepant display of Flowers


The Horticultural Society met at their
rooms in the Porter builing, at 3 o'clock
Saturday afternoon. We are glad to be
| able to state that the interest in horticul-
ture and Horticulture is commercially in
creasing in the community. A large num-
| Der of visitors went to the rooms yesterday
to look at the beautiful flowers on exhibit
! ton. Mr.. Weakley presided and DR..
Blackie performed the duties of Secretary.
The reading of the minutes of the previous
meeting was dispensed with There being
no regular correspondence, it was suggest
ed and agreed upon that record be kept
of the flowers and plants, etc, on exhibit
ton at each meeting, as the time would
come when such records would be referred
to with great interest. Owing to the cool
ness of the weather in the earlier part of
the week, a variety of rare and beautiful
| flowers from the grounds of the Asylum
failed to be on exhibition, but they will be
presented at the next meeting of the So
ciety DR.. Blackie and w. d. Kline were
| appointed committee to examine and re-
port upon the flowers on exhibition. After
botanical and critical examination, they
pronounced the variety unsurpassed,
and said that great improvements
III uttl Dt6u linus OuI-
ing the past two years. The meeting
then adjourned.
The flowers on exhibition were princi-
pally from the nurseries and greenhouses
of Messrs. VIM. HEAVIER, F,H. French and
Thomas Garland, and consisted of great
variety and superb specimens. There were
different varieties of geraniums, yellow jes-
samines, wall flowers, violets, rUbuses or
bridal roses, calliethespecins, or lilies of
the Nile, azalias, red and white, camelias,
etc. The variety of azalias was the richest
we remember to have seen. Mr.. Garland
had camelia japonica which was the finest
we ever saw. The specimen was grown in
an eight inch pot and is twenty-five years
old, and contains forty-ive flowers and
buds He also had pink azalia fifteen
years of age, which was very rich and
beautiful. His two Brompton double wall
flowers were much admired, and the sweet
scented pennyroyal was exceedingly rich.
a geranium, the Emily Gruseau, was a
beautiful plant. He had also variety of
Neapolitan double violets, which were very
beautiful and deliciously fragrant. His
large seeding of 90, named Fannie Fisher,
was very elegant. The geraniums, yellow
jessamines, lilies of the Nile, etc, of Mr..
HEAVIER, we're OF unsurpassed beauty and
richness.
The display of that floral connoisseur,
Mr.. French, was as elegant as rare. His
double white and rich thickly clustered
pink azalias, pinks, white bridal roses, etc,
were magnificent, rich and beautiful. The
fragrance exhaled from the flowers on ex-
hibition filed the room, and the pleasing
sight they afforded MAIDS glad the hearts of
all who saw them. The exhibition was
very interesting and instructive one, and
we say to our friends that they miss the
most enjoyable occasions our city affords
when they fail to visit the rooms. The in |
terest in the culture of flowers, plants, ETC.,
is assuming in our midst that prominence |
to which the subject is so eminently enti-
tied, and we hope that it will continue to |
increase. The society will give a general |
fair early in the month of May, which will |
no doubt be largely attended.