Exhibition Of The American Institute

Not having had a public fair this year, the Institute has determined to hold an exhibition at its rooms in the second week of February next. It will be confined to improvements in Agriculture! Manufactures, and the Arts, for which the gold and silver medals of the Institute will be awarded. We hope the enterprise will be liberally supported. Circulars may be had on application to the Institute.

Exhibition Of The Newburgh "Bay Horticultural Society

The thirteenth annual exhibition of this Society will take place at Newburgh, on the Hudson, September 23 to 25, 1873.

Exotics

B., (New-York.) - The Cleroden-droits and Gardenias you name, may be had of Parsons & Co. Cupressus Lambertiana has not proved hardy about New-York. Hedera Regneriana is a new variety of Irish Ivy, with large foliage and rapid growth. May be had at several of the leading nurseries.

New Palm-home, Kew.

Experience With Grape Seedlings

A capital record of practice, and of value to every grower of grape seedlings.

Explanation Of The Cuts

A, a branch with male and female flowers, natural size; B, various details of the fructification, more or less magnified; 1, a spike of male flowers; 2, a male or anther apart; 3, a twig and young cone; 4, a scale seen from the inside with the inverted ovule, showing the fungous foramen protruding beyond the primine (outer integument); 5, a ripe fruit; 6, a seed, showing the two slight elevations upon the surface, and the remains of the ragged primine at the base. - Dr. Lindley, in Horticultural Society Journal.

[Mr. Sargent considers the Saxe-Gothaea hardy in the climate of the North River. It belongs to the yew-leaved form of evergreens. - Ed].

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Camellia Flowered. for THE HORTICULTURIST, Published by C.M. SAXTON,BARKER & CO,New-York.

An Extraordinary Pear Tree

A photograph has been forwarded to England, which has aroused the astonishment of their distinguished men. It is taken of a branch of pears grown from a tree on the ranch of Mr. Kercheval, near Sacramento, Cal., The branch was 4 feet 6 inches long; carried 265 pears (most of which were about 5 inches in length), the whole weighing about 110 lbs.