Reports of the Committees for 1857, of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and the Schedule of Prizes for 1858 e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The temperature ranges from 60(deg) to 90(deg) Fahrenheit; this warm atmosphere enables Mr. Simpson to bloom in great perfection some of our most beautiful hot-house plants. The Committee would particularly notice a fine specimen of the Impatiens Hookerii, with its delicately marked flowers; a large and beautiful plant of the pretty Torrenia Asiatica, the curiously flowered siatica, the curiously flowered chinanthus Boschianus; a showy plant of Poinsettia and a most beautiful Cissus discolor in full flower. The manner of growing this latter plant was truly charming, it being allowed to weep from a high bracket, thereby displaying to the greatest advantage its beautifully marked foliage. The moist temperature seems also particularly adapted to verbenas and heliotropes, whose luxuriant growth and profuse flowers bore witness to the skill and care bestowed upon them. Great credit is due to Mr. Simpson's gardener, Mr. Burns, whose indefatigable attention and untiring industry conduces greatly to the success of Mr. Simpson's well formed plans.<br><br>The Committee cannot but express their gratification at this visit, and trust that the time is not far distant when grapes will be as plenty in our markets, during the inclement winter months, as in the more sunny summer season.<br><br>Our next visit was on Wednesday, June 28th, to the estate of H. H. Hunnewell in West Needham. The situation is unsurpassed, being on the banks of Lake Wabaan, a beautiful sheet of water, which, unlike most of our New England lakes, has high bold shores, its banks being thus peculiarly fitted for residences. The estate consists of about two hundred acres, most beautifully laid out in garden, lawn, woodland and orchard. The house is approached by two avenues on either side of the lawn, each seventeen feet in width; the one bordered with white pines, silver maples and larches, the other with native deciduous trees, magnolias and Pinus excelsus. Our first visit was to the sma