330 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Gratuities. — To M. P. Wilder, for a display of 20 varieties of paso- 

 nies, $b. 

 To W. Kenrick, for a fine display of paeonies, $2. 

 To W. Quant, for a beautiful specimen of Stephanotus floribiinda, $3. 

 To John Quant, for a pretty specimen of Buddleya Lindleya^a, #1. 

 To Miss S. W. McClean, for a picotee g;rown in the parlor, $1. 

 June 24th. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day — the 

 President in the chair. 



No business coming before the meeting, — it was adjourned one week, to 

 July 1. 



Exhibited. — Flowers : The exhibition of roses for premium took place 

 today, and a splendid display was made ; all the stands were completely 

 filled with cut flowers, containing in all more than five hundred varieties. 

 The number of exhibitors was numerous, and the specimens fine. 



From the President of the Society, a large quantity of cut roses, includ- 

 ing some beautiful specimens of Solfitaire, Cloth of Gold, Elize Sauvage, 

 &c. Roses in fine variety were also shown, by Messrs. Breck ^ Co., A. 

 Aspinwall, Winships, J. A. Kenrick, W. Kenrick, A. Bowditch, John 

 Cadness, E. Wight, B. V. French, S. Walker, W. Mellar, F. W. 

 Macondry, P. Barnes, and others. Fine pinks were exhibited by Messrs. 

 Breck & Co. and W. Mellar. From J. Cadness six plants in pots. Bou- 

 quets, cut flowers, &c., were exhibited by Messrs. Winships, Nugent, 

 Cadness, Bowditch, Mellar, S. Dike, and Miss Russell, and others. 



Messrs. Hovey & Co. exhibited upwards of three hundred varieties of 

 roses, embracing thirty superb named ones, as follows : — Gallica — Bizarre 

 Marbree, Cyntie, Carangeon, Madame Henriette, Reine Ne me Surpasse, 

 Superb Cramoise, Tibulle, Gil Bias, Nestor, Amiable Queen, Avenant, 

 Boula de Nanteui!, Sir W. Scott, Ponctu6: Hybrid Provence — Melanie, 

 Aspasie, Blanchefleur, La Ville de Londres: Hybrid China — Leopold de 

 Bauffremont, Lord Keith, Le Meteor, Chen^dole, Chas. Louis, No. 1, 

 Coup6 d'Hebe, George IV., Madame Plantier, Paul Perras, Ernest Ferray : 

 j4.//»a- Sophie de Marsilly ; also, nine varieties of jprairie roses, viz.. Queen, 

 Baltimore Belle, Jane, Milledgeville, Pallida, Pride of Washington, Su- 

 perba, Perpetual Pink, and Caradori Allen ; twelve varieties of moss roses, 

 and fifteen varieties of hybrid perpetuals. 

 Premiums were awarded as follows : — 

 Hardy Roses — in classes. 



Class I. 

 For the best thirty distinct varieties to A. Aspinwall, $8. 

 For the second best, to Hovey & Co., $6. 

 For the third best, to J. Cadness, $4. 

 For the best display, to A. Aspinwall, $3. 



Class II. 

 For the best 12 varieties, to Joseph Breck & Co., $5. 



Class III. 

 For the best 12 varieties of hardy perpetual roses, to Hovey & Co., $5. 

 For the second best, to A. Aspinwall, $i. 



