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rare flowers, none were more admired than the calceolarias and " Hovey's 

 America" verbem, shown by Mr. Webster. 



At the show on the 25th of June, the strawberries were numerous and in 

 great variety. The premium for the best and largest collection was award- 

 ed to Mr. Pardee, who exhibited about forty kinds. 



Buffalo Horticultural Society. — June I5th. The President in the 

 chair. 



Exhibited. — By Mason & Lovering, 3 bouquets of roses, geraniums, sal- 

 vias, verbenas, pansies, columbines, &c. D. S. Manley & Brother, pa^on- 

 ies 4 var., Fleur de Lis, double scarlet hawthorn, snowball, Dictamnus 

 rubra, Weigela rosea. Lilac tosirea. Mrs. Lewis Eaton, pseonies 3 var. 

 A. Bryant & Son, paconies 6 var., Dictamnus rubra, Awsonia willow. Benj. 

 Hodge, Roxbury Russet and Poughkeepsie Russet apples. 



The prize for the best 3 var. pjeonies was awarded to A. Bryant &. Son. 



After testing the fruit exhibited, the society adjourned. 



June 2[)th and 30fh. — Semiannual exhibition. In consequence of the un- 

 usual lateness of the season, the display at this exhibition Avas scarcely so 

 fine as that of last year, many varieties of roses not being yet in bloom, 

 and cherries, with tiie exception of the earlier sorts, not yet ripe. The 

 Hall, however, presented a beautiful appearance, decorated as it was with 

 wreaths of evergreens interspersed with flowers, and having in the centre 

 an elegant Floral Temple. Many new and rare varieties of both fruits and 

 flowers were for the first time exhibited on the society's tables, and not- 

 withstanding the many unfavorable circumstances which the society were 

 obliged to contend against, the exhibition gave general satisfaction. 



The committee on flowers oflTer the following report. The contributors 

 were forty-two in number, and although the season, from its backwardness' 

 and drouth, has materially aflfected our floral display, yet, notwithstanding,, 

 it is conceded by all our numerous visitors that the blooms in general were 

 very fine, although much less in quantity as compared with our former June 

 shows. 



Much credit is due the Executive, Mr. Bryant, for his indefatigable la- 

 bors, as also the committee of ladies and aids, for their tasteful decorations. 

 Besides the bouquets, floral ornaments and single flowers to which prem- 

 iums were awarded, were very many beautiful and nearly equal in growth 

 and make, which rendered it diflicult in many cases to award satisfactorily 

 the prizes. 



The bouquet of Mrs. R. Hollister had some fine roses and phlox. Mrs. 

 O. G. Steele, superb Moss roses. Mrs. J. T. Lacy, an excellent collection 

 of roses, phlox, &c. Mrs. Mulligan, 10 var. of roses, among them very fine 

 Hundred-leaved. Miss E. Provost, a very tasteful collection, artistically 

 put up, chaste and pretty. Miss Vandeventer had a large variety of excel- 

 lent growth. Among the bouquets, was a capital one, having ranunculus 

 and many varieties of greenhouse flowers from Miss Susan Thomas. The 

 committee would have awarded it a premium, had they not learned that it 

 was a purchased bouquet, the rules of the society requiring plants and flow- 

 ers to be the growth of the competitors. 

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