THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



A. Constable received the first prize, and Mrs. J. H. Flagler sec- 

 ond for a vase of ten stems of Easter lilies. 



The following special prizes were awarded : Bobbink & Atkins, 

 for a collection of flowering shrubs, silver medal; Mrs. J. H. 

 Flagler, for vases of tulips and amaryllis, cash; Hamilton Farm, 

 for vases of mignonette and snapdragons, cash; Wm. Tricker, 

 for vase of water lilies, bronze medal ; Mrs. Wm. G. Nichols, 

 George Sullivan, gardener, for a dozen pans of hyacinths in va- 

 riety, silver medal and cash ; Lager & Hurrell, for collection of 

 orchid blooms, cash; Mrs. F. A. Constable, for vases of narcis- 

 sus, tulips, callas, and Clivia, cash ; Mrs. H. Darlington, for vase 

 of amaryllis hybrids, cash ; Air. Austen Colgate, Orange, N. J., 

 Wm. Reid, gardener, for Anthurimn Reidii, certificate of culture; 

 Mrs. A. M. Booth, Great Neck, N. Y., E. Fardel, gardener, for 

 collection of hybrid freesias, and collection of hybrid Helleborus, 

 silver medal. 



The judges were: J. F. Johnston, I. S. Hendrickson, and Robt. 

 T. Brown. 



May 



An exhibition was held on the 13th and 14th, Saturday and 

 Sunday, in the Museum building, New York Botanical Garden. 

 The premiums were offered by the New York Botanical Garden, 

 from the income of the William R. Sands Fund, to be awarded 

 by the Exhibition Committee of The Horticultural Society of 

 New York. Premiums were offered for cut blooms of herbace- 

 ous plants, shrubs and trees, tulips, narcissus, orchids, sweet peas, 

 and antirrhinums, and for plants of pelargoniums and calceo- 

 larias. The exhibition was held in connection with the annual 

 meeting of the society. A feature of the exhibition was the fine 

 collection, in fifty vases, of flowers of shrubs and trees displayed 

 by Mr. T. A. Havemeyer, Glen Head, Long Island, A. Lahodny, 

 gardener. Another striking exhibit was the display of early, 

 cottage and Darwin tulips made by John Scheepers & Co., Inc. 

 This display consisted of one hundred and fifteen vases, many of 

 the tulips being unusual. Some of the Darwins were especially 

 noteworthy, a vase of fine blooms of Pride of Haarlem and of 

 another of Valentin being among these. 



The first prize ofifered for a collection of the flowers of her- 



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