Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-22
Horticulture.

Attractions.
 The fall exhibition of the New Bayen County Horticultural Society opened yester- day afternoon, and in another column will be found the list of premiums awarded. But mere list of premiums can give but little idea of the beauty of such an exhibition, an exhi- bition which would do honort to much larger and wealfhier community than our own.
 Entering the old State House we find on two long tables in the main corridor the large general exhibits of the Veitch Brothers, that of R. veitch & Son nearest the entrance, and that of Archibald Veitch at the other end of the same corridor Both collections con- tain many plants of great interest, both for their beauty and their variety. In the TO- tunda are two sets of six fine plants. The nearest collection includes two very fine tree ferns, palm, Yatcca GatGtemG5ensis etc., the other New Zealand flax (PhO1mIuna tesa0r), Mediterranean heath of unusual size, two lovely Orotons, fine BOeGpGrteG jss,scea, and very promising young plant of
 CyGnophyIGstne spectGndTG, with curiously veined leaves nearly two feet long and eight or nine inches wide. It belongs to the same order of plants as our wild deer grass, the
 RleriG VfqytntcG.
 In the large room at the northeast are sev- eral exhibits. Three general collections sent by s'Amateurs and Gardeners are displayed
 in the middle of the room. That shown by David Virtue, gardener for O. F. Winches- ter, Esq, has been decorated with the first premium. A hall plant with white, green and rosy leaves, (Phy5za1st7sus rosesls pictus) in the middle of the table, is one of the
 rarest plants in this collection From the
 same conservatories are very rare and curious Orchid, 1stGntOpeG -tSgripG) and seeding of the East India pitcher-plant, (Nepesathes c7isttEZGtOrid). The second prize l goes to Mr McLelland, gardener to Mrs. Reed, whose table is covered with great va ] riety of beautiful plants, among which
 broad-leaved grass is very conspicuous, as is 1 an AEsamGndG with it's large yellow blossoms
 F. O'Neil, gardener to MT. R.aM. Everit, has I the remaining large table, where the eye is attracted by large cactaceous plant-possi- l ply PAyllocGctets- by doub1e-fowered | Hibiscus. In the same room are the compet- ing collections of SeEagine11os, Begontas, Maraat0s, Palms, DrGce7aGs, C0EeGsus and F6Glc1LGIICS is MT. Archibald Veitch's I0reniG Ba5l- l Io1ai, which takes prize for being the new 1 est thing shown, although by no means the finest In a little room on the east side are cut l flowers and fruits, apples, pears, grapes worthy of Eschcol, and melons, all well worth attention. most highly commenda- ble exhibit is MT. David Saunders six vines
 in pots, carefully and systematically trained
 and pinned, and hanging full of splendid ! clusters of Black Hamburg Foster's white and chasselas-Fontaineblea grapes Here are also some interesting native grasses; one I collection of eighty species all separately l labelled, and another great mass against the wall with a list of the names lying on the
 table. The cut flowers are roses, dahlias, tuberoses, verbenas and several bouquets for | the hand or the table. white cross is es- pecially beautiful
 In room No 6 are two collections of North
 American ferns-about 70 plants exhibited by
 Robert Veitch & Son, and over 30 by Wool l son & Co.-the former mostly larger speci-
 mems, the latter with the larger proportion
 of rare southwestern and Californian species, l including several never before seen living in Connecticut. In this room is very large and fine PGndGaa1s UtSlis or screw-pine from Governor Winchester's conservatory This takes the first prize as the finest single plant
 exhibited, though the judges must have found
 some difficulty in deciding between it and
 MT. Everit's superb Mar0rat0 which stands
 next to it. specimen of YatccG GuGtema-
 le1asts in the farther corner of the same room
 and palm (LGtGniG BOr6oatca) by it's side
 are also very fine plants So are also Messrs.
 Veitch's variegated-leaved plants in the same
 room A very beautiful palm (Seafo2tzta 1 Elegaa's) stands alone near the old Californian
 church bell in the little room adjoining. The exhibit of exotic ferns in the second
 room, on the west side of the corridor, is the ! finest ever seen in the State. The Adiantums
 are lovely, the Stagshorn fern curious and
 the Davallias and Dicksonians very graceful The vegetable exhibit is interesting, though
 less attractive. The great variety of potatoes
 awakens the wonder why the market men so
 seldom offer us anything but f'Early Rose ]"
 The onions, radishes, salsify, Lima beans
 Give in pod), corn, celery, eggplant, etc,
 etc, are appetizing to the hungry visitor who passes by their jocund ranks.