this growing taste, more especially for the wild plants of our fields and pastures; and we trust that we shall oftener see them mingled in with the foreign plants, in the borders of the gardens of every true lover of Flora.

At half past three o'clock in the afternoon, an address was delivered before the Society, by Prof. J. L. Russell. The subject was Natural History in its various branches. We wish we could follow Mr. Russell through his highly eloquent and interesting address, and enlarge upon some of the most important points; but our limits will not allow of this. The Society will undoubtedly publish the address, and, should we be favored with a copy, it will give us much pleasure to lay some extracts before our readers.

Maryland Horticultural Society.-The anniversary meeting of this Society was held at Baltimore on the 21st of June, 1836. Officers were chosen for the ensuing year, and premiums announced for articles exhibited from June, 1835, to June, 1836. The following is the report of the various Committees :—

Vegetables-To W. McBurney, for the best cauliflowers; to James Stranoch, for forced lettuce; to Thomas Dixon, for open ground lettuce; to Richard Valentine, for open ground rhubarb; to Thomas French, for beets; to Caleb Whittemore, for cape brocoli; to Thomas Kehoe, for celery; to William Feast, for egg plants; to Thomas Dixon, for tomatoes; to Peter Coombs, for salsify; to James Maidlow, for pickling cucumbers; to Thomas Dixon, for Lima beans; to Peter Nantz, for crooked neck squash; to William McBurney, for early York cabbages; to Edmund Kean, for early potatoes; to Thomas Kehoe, for mushrooms; to F. E. McHenry, for onions from seed; to Edmund Kean, for asparagus, the amateur premium; to `John Feast, for his new variety of cucumber, called the "superb Long Green," a specimen of which measured two feet seven inches, a discretionary premium.

Fruits-To Samuel Feast, Jr., for the best strawberries; to Richard Valentine, for gooseberries; to Caleb Whittemore, for raspberries; to Richard Valentine, for grapes; to Mrs. Forney, for plums; to Wesley Hancock, for early apples; to H. V. Somerville, for early peaches; to Mrs. H. Birkhead, for apricots; to Robert Gilmor, Sen., for figs; to Henry Thompson, for cantaloupes; to Henry Moore, for pears; to Peter Coombs, a discretionary premium for his late pears; to Miss E. Schroder, a discretionary premium for her fine Spanish chesnuts; to Gen. T. M. Forman, a discretionary premium for his late cherry.

Flowers-For the best collection of the Caméllia japónica, including the greatest number of kinds and finest bloom, to Samuel Feast; for the best seedling Caméllia japónica, to Zebulon Waters; for collection of dahlias, to John Feast; for seedling dahlias, to Gideon B. Smith; for azaleas, to Edward Kurtz; for amaryllisses, to Edward Kurtz; for collection of pelargoniums, to J. Feast; for seedling pelargoniums, to Z. Waters; for China roses in open ground, to S. Feast; for chrysanthemums, to Mrs. Geo. H. Keerl; for carnations, including seedlings, to Z. Waters; for tulips, to Thomas Edmondson; for hyacinths, to Mrs. B. I. Cohen; for primula polyanthuses, to Samuel Feast; for collection of succulents in bloom, to the Gardener of St. Mary's College; for collection of herbaceous plants, to Jno. Feast; for the finest and rarest exotic, the amateur premium, to Samuel Feast; a discretionary premium to William Wilson, for his fine seedling dahlia, the Huntingdon.

Upwards of two hundred dollars were given away in premiums. (Farmer and Gardener.)

REMARKS. The unprecedented cold, wet, and cloudy weather, with easterly winds, which has prevailed, with scarcely the intermission of a day of sunshine, since the date of our last, has tended to greatly retard the ripening of fruits and the maturing of early spring vegetables. As we anticipated, if the cold weather continued, which was then prevalent, such products as we get early in June would not, this season, come to hand until a later period. The supplies have been barely sufficient to meet the demand, and prices remain high. Of potatoes there is a moderate stock on hand : prices are firmer, and Nova Scotias somewhat higher the supply will be wholly diminished by the time new ones come in. Turnips are plenty, and very fine. Onions are very scarce; no old ones are to be found, and the spring crop is very

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light, the severity of the winter having partially destroyed many large plantations. Carrots, beets, &c. are nearly all gone. Radishes are very plenty. Of cabbages a few heads of this year's crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; they were rather small. Lettuce continues abundant and cheap. Beet tops and spinach are now more plentiful than other greens. Water cresses are gone. Asparagus keeps up at a remarkably high price, and the supplies have been small. Rhubarb is plentiful. Peas have been in the market but a few days, and prices are yet high; they are tolerably well filled. West India squashes are more abundant than we have ever known them; and the great number which are weekly brought into this market has caused quite a depression in the price.

Apples continue scarce; our quotations will show the advance of prices: a few, commonly termed the rock apple, are to be had, which are very fine. Strawberries are not abundant, nor of very good quality; the cold wet weather having prevented them from acquiring their peculiar fine flavor; a few Keen's seedlings have come to hand, of very large size; Early Virginias, royal scarlets, and the old Wood, are the most abundant. Methven scarlets are now considerably cultivated, and their fine appearance commands for them a good price. A few cherries from New York came to hand to-day, of rather ordinary quality. Green gooseberries and currants for tarts are plenty. Some watermelons from the West Indies also made their appearance in the market this week; they sold readily at our quotations. Pine-apples are very plenty, several thousand having arrived during the last fortnight. White sweet water and black Hamburg grapes, from hot-houses in the vicinity, came to hand this week; they were exceedingly fine. Cranberries are very scarce, and few remain on hand. Yours, M. T., Boston, June, 1836.

ART. VII. Meteorological Notice.

FOR MAY.

THE month of May, up to about the 20th, was very fine, with but few cold winds and but little rain. The morning of the 14th was rather cool; in some places water froze, and early crops were considerably injured. After the 20th the wind, which had previously ranged from S. E. to S. W., set in from the N. E., accompanied with a cold drizzling rain, which continued until June.

THERMOMETER.-Mean temperature, 53° 20′-highest, 79°; lowest, 16° 32′ above zero.

WINDS.-N. E. eleven days-E. five-S. E. two-S. seven-S. W. three-W. two-N. W. one day.

Force of the Wind.-Brisk, twenty-one days-light, ten days.

Character of the Weather.-FINE, thirteen days-FAIR, eight daysCLOUDY, ten days.

Rainy, seven days.

MONTHLY CALENDAR

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HORTICULTURE AND FLORICULTURE,

FOR JULY.

FRUIT DEPARTMENT.

Grape vines in the green-house or grapery, will by this time have made a growth nearly to the top of the house; keep the tendrils and laterals cut off, as before recommended, and the wood will be much stronger also keep them tied up to the trellis, and not let the shoots run together. Give attention as directed in our last, and on no account neglect to look over the vines at least every other day. The grapes will now have acquired the size of small peas, and will be swelling very rapidly; give them frequent syringings, and, if the weather continues dry, the borders should be flooded with water. Attention should be given, and the clusters thinned out, so that berries will not crowd one another. Vines in the open air will now have set their fruit; keep them regularly trimmed, and occasionally water with liquid manure.

Grape eyes in pots should be kept well watered, and the shoots tied to strong stakes.

Peach trees in pots should be kept well watered, and the fruit thinned out, this month.

Plum trees should be looked over, and all the fruit that falls from them should be given to swine.

Strawberry beds should now receive attention. As soon as the fruit is all picked, give the beds a good weeding, and cut away all small superfluous runners; if none are wanted to make another bed, let them be cut away altogether. Where wanted for forcing, the runners may be pegged into pots filled with a rich soil, and, when rooted, cut off, and removed to a shady situation.

FLOWER DEPARTMENT.

Dahlias may yet be planted; and, if the weather continues warm and the plants are tolerably strong, they will bloom abundantly. We have known small plants raised from cuttings the latter part of June, planted out in July, produce flowers through all the months of September and October. Set in a deep rich sandy soil. Stake those plants set out in June.

Azaleas may now be propagated from cuttings planted in sand.

Biennial and perennial seeds may yet be planted-sow in a light rich soil, well pulverized; transplant as soon as the plants are two or three inches high.

Carnations may be now layed with success. Seedlings raised in boxes should also be transplanted into the border.

Annual flower seeds of many kinds will bloom finely in September and October, if now sown.

Calceolarias should be propagated from cuttings this month.

Tulips, rananculuses, hyacinths, &c., should be taken up this month; choose a dry day to do this.

Rose-bushes infested with the aphides should be syringed with tobacco-water. Plants may be budded the latter part of the month.

Geraniums.-Cuttings of these should now be put in. For directions :see Vol. I.

Green-house plants of all sorts may be propagated this month.

THE

AMERICAN

GARDENER'S MAGAZINE.

AUGUST, 1836.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. Remarks on the Fitness of the different Styles of Architecture for the Construction of Country Residences, and on the Employment of Vases in Garden Scenery. By A. J. DOWNING, Botanic Garden and Nursery, Newburgh, N. Y.

Ir is in the highest degree gratifying to witness the rapid improvement in the taste for building, which is extending itself throughout the country. Here, where from the scarcity of good architects to direct the public taste, that taste must be formed and controlled, in a great measure, by the landed proprietors themselves, it reflects the more credit upon its possessors. From the buildings of a country, as they exhibit, in their external appearance and internal arrangement, the evidences of comfort, convenience, elegance of proportion, and beauty of detail, the traveller indeed may form a very just opinion of the character of its inhabitants ;-he can distinguish, in different countries, the general march of civilization, exhibited in the wants of those inhabitants, dependant upon the degrees of intelligence and cultivation of which they may be possessed-from a savage state of barbarism, when man subsists by hunting, and constructs for himself a rude hut of bark or logs, to those refined stages of society, in which the luxury of man has caused him to expend millions in the erection of a single palace.

Judging, in this manner, of the state of a population by their apparent wants, in the domestic and social relations, and the perfection of the art by which they satisfy those wants-we conceive that, in the Northern and Middle States, the stranger must derive a highly favorable impression from observations of this nature. The great number of tasteful villas, neat farm