332 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



From W. E. Carter, Dodecatheon, new seedling, very fine, the same as 

 exhibited last year ; also cut flowers in variety. 



PREMIUMS AND GRATUITIES AWARDED. 



Hawthorns. — For the best display, to Winship & Co., $3. 



For the second best, to Hovey & Co., $2. 

 Hardy Azaleas. — For the best display, to Hovey & Co., $5. 



For the second best, to Winship & Co , 3. 



Gratuities. — To J. A. Kenrick, for hawthorns, f2. 

 To Jas. Nugent, for cut flowers and bouquets, $2. 

 To W. E. Carter, for Dodecatheon, $1. 



To Miss M. M. Kenrick, Miss Russell, E. M. Richards, W. Kenrick, 

 and P. Barnes, for cut flowers, &c., $\ each. 



Fruit : From James Nugent, grapes. Black Hamburgh. From A. Wales, 

 grapes, Macrcady's Early White. From W. C. Strong, grapes, Chasselas, 

 Muscat of Alexandria, Black Frontignan, Black Hamburgh. From Hovey 

 & Co., grapes, Black Hamburgh. From J. F. Allen, Victoria, Black 

 Hamburgh, and two seedlings, which proved very fine. The Musque 

 seedling (which is delicious) is an accidental cross between Verdelho, the 

 Madeira wme grape, and the Grizzly Frontignan, and combines the char- 

 acteristics of the two ; the other is a seedling Hamburgh. 



Vegetables: From J. French, Godfrey cucumbers, (fine.) From G. 

 Leland, (Waltham,) peas, Hovey's Extra Early. From Amos W. Stetson, 

 (East Braintree,) Victoria rhubarb. From Hon. Daniel Webster, Palestine 

 lettuce, (well grown.) 



June 19. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day, — the 

 President in the chair. 



The President presented a Report of the Albany and Rensellaer Horti- 

 cultural Society, a Treatise on the Grape, by R. Buchannan, and a Cata- 

 logue of Messrs. Baumann, of Bollwiller. 



Adjourned two weeks, to July 3. 



Exhibited. — Flowers : From the President of the Society, twenty-one 

 varieties of herbaceous paeonies, — among them fine specimens of Bucykii 

 and papaveriflora ; also fifty varieties of Iris. From J. A. Kenrick, Mag- 

 nolia macrophylla, Virgih'a lutea, and other flowers. From Winship & Co., 

 Virgilia lutea, Dic6ntra spectabilis, spiraeas, and other flowers. From 

 Hovey &, Co., fifty varieties of hardy roses, twenty varieties of herbaceous 

 pseonies, — ampng them fine specimens of P. festiva, — twenty varieties of 

 perpetual roses, &c., &c. From M. P. Wilder, a great variety of rosea 

 and herbaceous paeonies. Cut flowers, bouquets, &c., from P. Barnes, E. 

 M. Richards, J- Nugent, J. Dunklee, Samuel Walker, W. Kenrick, W. E. 

 Carter, and others. From A. Bowditch, Veronica Andersoni, (fine speci- 

 men,) Amaryllis crocata, and six fuchsias ; also cut flowers. 



premiums and gratuities awarded. 



Herbaceous P.eonies. — For the best ten varieties, to M. P. Wilder, $5. 

 For the second best, to Hovey & Co., $4. 

 For the best display, to M. P. Wilder, #3. 



