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Sheppard, Moore, and McLaren, obtaining the prizes. James 

 Comley showed a seedling verbena, which promises to be a desira- 

 ble sort ; truss, large ; color, bright crimson, very dark centre, and a 

 very large e3'e. From Mace}' Randall, very good dahlias. Norton 

 Brothers exhibited a collection of excellent asters in pots. There 

 were fine spikes of gladioli from G. Craft, J. Cartwright, and J. S. 

 Richards. 



SErXEMBER 7. 



The exhibition of Zinnias, if not the best, was probably the 

 largest ever made before the Society. There were seven com- 

 petitors in the class of twenty flowers, and nine in that of ten 

 flowers, but again the rains of the few previous daj-s had damaged 

 the flowers, man}' of them being coarse, and hardly up to the 

 standard. J. B. Moore took the highest prize ; his flowers were 

 arranged with his usual good taste in the combination of colors. 

 From Hove}^ & Co., there were two small plants of the new Coleus 

 multicolor, ' ' the leaves deeply cut, at the edges undulating ; its 

 green color is splashed and spotted with crimson reddish rose, and 

 the young leaves with yellow." 



ANNUAL EXHIBITION. 



September 17, 18, 19, and 20. 



As a whole, this was the best ever made by the Societ}^ 

 Greenhouse Plants. — The exhibitors of twelve were H. H. 

 Hunnewell, S. R. Pa^^son, William Gray, Jr., and Hovey & Co., 

 Messrs. Hunnewell and Payson taking the first and second prizes. 

 Messrs. Hovey & Co.'s collection was remarkably fine, as was also 

 that of President Gra3^ Mr. Hunnewell's twelve plants were as 

 follows : — 



■ Alocasia metallica, Maranta eximia, 



" Veitchii, " Makoyana, 



Croton pictum, " pardina, 



Eurya latifolia, var., Pandanus graminifoUus, 



Ficus Parcellii, Phyllotceidum Lindenii, 



Hydrangea spedosa, SplicErogyne latifolia. 



