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fresh and healthy condition, and fine preservation of bloom, attesting 

 the skill of the shippers, Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea, England, in 

 the packing of plants. It is gratifjdng to notice the increased 

 attention of our commercial cultivators to the rarer and more deli- 

 cate species of plants. Prof. C. E. Hamlin, of Waterville, Maine, 

 sent, by J. W. Merrill, a beautiful specimen of that rare plant, 

 Calypso horealis. 



Mat 18 and 25. 



F. B. Hayes exhibited beautiful collections of Rhododendrons, 

 many of them new varieties. 



June 1. 



Marshall P. Wilder was the on\y competitor for the premiums 

 for Tree Pfeonies, and received the first prize for some very large 

 flowers, among them Louis Van Houtte and Louis Mouchelet, the 

 former measuring nine inches in diameter ; also Lactea, Neumanni, 

 and Purpurea, and seedlings grown by the late Dr. Kirtland. 

 From H. H. Hunnewell came a stand of forty-eight varieties of 

 new and rare Rhododendrons, for which the Society's Silver Medal 

 was awarded. The collection was well worthy the highest of the 

 Hunnewell premiums, but as the giver declines competing for his 

 own special prizes, and as the Societ}' offers but one prize for rhod- 

 odendrons, and that for a general collection, the Committee were 

 unable to confer a higher award. 



Mr. Hunnewell also exhibited the new and beautiful Azalea 

 mollis, in several varieties, with much larger flowers than the 

 common Ghent sorts. Hovey & Co., and B. G. Smith, exhibited 

 excellent collections of Hardj' Azaleas ; from the latter the follow- 

 ing varieties : Baron George Pj'ke, C^oncinna, Gloire de Belgique, 

 Ne Plus Ultra, Princeps Speciosa, and Punicea. Hovey & Co. 

 showed a single truss of flowers of a remarkably beautiful variet}', 

 Superbissima, of flaming orange color. 



H. H. Hunnewell sent two new June flowering clematis ; Fair 

 Rosamond, — flowers blush white, with a slight tinge of red up the 

 centre of each sepal ; and Stella, — Hght violet, a deep reddish brown 

 in the centre of each sepal, both of them delicatelj^ fragrant. Also, 

 Andromeda Cateshoii, a rare species. Joseph H. Woodford also 

 sent a beautiful assortment of hard}' flowering clematis. John L. 

 De Wolf exhibited a choice collection of seedling Pansies in many 



