THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



A special prize was awarded to Mr. Arthur Cowee for a col- 

 lection of named varieties of gladioluses. 



The judges were James Stuart, Robert Stobo, and John 

 Canning. 



SEPTEMBER EXHIBITION 



This exhibition was held in cooperation with the New York 

 Botanical Garden, in the Museum building of the Garden, on 

 Saturday and Sunday, the sixteenth and seventeenth. The un- 

 favorable weather in the early part of the week interfered con- 

 siderably with the exhibits, as dahlia and aster flowers, for which 

 the greater part of the premiums was provided, were much 

 damaged by the cold rainy weather, and did not properly develop. 

 The following week was much more favorable to these flowers. 



Mr. H. Darlington, of Mamaroneck, N. Y., P. W. Popp, 

 gardener, took first prizes for a collection of dahlia blooms and 

 for a vase of dahlia blooms, both in the open-to-all class. In the 

 class for non-commercial growers he also took first prizes for a 

 collection of dahlia blooms, and for vases of show, decorative, 

 cactus, and peony-flowered dahlias. Mrs. F. A. Constable, of 

 Mamaroneck, N. Y., James Stuart, gardener, was awarded first 

 prizes, in the non-commercial class, for a vase of ten blooms of 

 single dahlias, and for vases of white, light pink, dark pink, blue, 

 and crimson late-branching asters, ten blooms of each. 



An interesting feature of the exhibition was a large collection 

 of flowers and fruits of herbaceous plants and of shrubs and 

 trees exhibited by the New York Botanical Garden. This filled 

 the long table in the east end of the exhibition hall, and attracted 

 much attention and inspection from the large number of people 

 who visited the exhibition on both days. 



The judges were F. R. Picrson and E. B. Southwick. 



THE FUNKIAS OR DAY-LILIES 



Alany years ago, past the middle of the eighteenth century, that 

 indefatigable explorer and botanist, Thunberg, visited Japan, 



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