A floral, gardening and horticultural society was formed the last year at Friends Academy, Union Springs, N. T., and at the first meeting twenty-four persons, mainly students, enrolled their names as members. The small entrance fee goes to the purchase of seeds, bulbs and plants. A leading object is ornamenting and polishing the grounds of the institution, of which there is an acre of lawn and trees immediately surrounding the building, with a two-acre oak grove adjoining. The members of this horticultural society have already laid out and planted circular and elliptical flower beds with bedding plants and the seeds of annuals, and have cleared up the grounds and given them a handsome finish. The members (many of whom belong to the class in botany) have been favored at some of their meetings with discourses on practical gardening principles on which success depends, and an evening lecture on vegetable anatomy was given by Mr. John J. Thomas, one of the managers of the academy, illustrated with over fifty magnified pictures, thrown by means of the sciopticon on a twelve foot screen.

This is the only organization of similar nature with which we are acquainted in this country.