. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. second best Basket, to , gardener to the President. For the most interesting and next most interesting displaysof Vegetables, to Anthony Feltoii. The President announced that he had received a communi-cation, which was read, iVom Gen Patterson, the first Vice-President, dated from Tampico, purporting that he had for-warded a package containing Air plants. Cacti, etc., as a pre-sent to the Society; which had been received and distributedby the appropriate Committee. Ordered. Tlial the communication be entered in the minutes,a
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. second best Basket, to , gardener to the President. For the most interesting and next most interesting displaysof Vegetables, to Anthony Feltoii. The President announced that he had received a communi-cation, which was read, iVom Gen Patterson, the first Vice-President, dated from Tampico, purporting that he had for-warded a package containing Air plants. Cacti, etc., as a pre-sent to the Society; which had been received and distributedby the appropriate Committee. Ordered. Tlial the communication be entered in the minutes,and the thanks of the Society be tendered for the acceptablegift. The Library Committee reported that Robert Buist had pre-sented a copy of the second edition of his Treatise on theCulture of the Rose, to the Society. Ordered, That the thanks be presented to the donor. HoHorari/ Members Elected—MuTshaW P. Wilder, Presidentof the Massachusetts Horticultural Society ; J. P. Cushiiig,Watertown, and B. V. French, Braintree, Mass. Thomas P. James, Rec. See. THE. ;^,^^^\^>^;. JOUBNAL OF RURAL ART AND RURAL TASTE. Vol. I. MAY, 1S47. No. 11. Chaklks Dickens, in that unlucky visit toAmerica in which he was treated like aspoiled child, and left it in the humor thatoften ? dlows too lavish a bestowal of sugarplums on spoiled children, made now andthen a remark in his characteristic vein ofsubtle perceptions. Speaki g of some ofour wooden villages—the houses as brightas the greenest blinds and the whitestweather-boarding can make them, he saidit was quite impossible to believe themreal, substantial habitations. They looked as if they had been put up on Saturdaynight, and were to be taken down on Mon-day morning ! There is no wonder that any tourist, ac-customed to the quiet and harmonious colourof buildings in an English landscape, shouldbe shocked at the glare and rawness of ma-ny of our country dwellings. Brown, thecelebrated English landscape gardener, usedto say of a new red bric
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