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Beauty of Kingsessing, Elkshorn, Mrs. G. W. Coleman, 

 Mrs. A. Blanc, and Mrs. Wm. Howell, while Mr. Waterer 

 distributed Wm. Dewar, Public Ledger, Stars and Stripes, 

 Magnet, Mont Blanc, Colossal, Mrs. Sam Houston and Miss 

 Anna Hartshorne. Mrs. Joel. J. Bailey, which won the fifty 

 dollar silver cup offered by the Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety, was also sent out this year. In 1888, Mr. Craig sent out 

 Sunnyside, Mrs. T. C. Price, Mrs. M. J. Thomas, Mrs. John 

 N. May, W. W. Coles, Mrs. A. C. Burpee and others, while 

 in this same year, Mr. Waterer distributed Excellent and 

 Robt. Craig, also from the hands of Mr. Harris, and in 1889, 

 he sent Mrs. W. K. Harris which took first prize for best 

 seedling offered by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 

 Violet Rose, Ivory, Mrs. Irving Clark, Advance, Mountain of 

 Snow, Miss Mary Wheeler and others too numerous too allow 

 individual mention. This year Messrs. Hill & Co., of Richmond* 

 Ind., sent out of his raising C. A. Reeser, John Lane, Mrs. 

 Winthrop Sargent, Carry Denny, Reward, Model, Twilight 

 and White Cap. The colors and tints which were unknown 

 in this flower a decade ago are now found in all of these varie- 

 ties. Maroons, crimsons, rose, pink and buff have become 

 more decided, and with such progress as this in another 

 decade, the production of a scarlet flower is not to be de- 

 spaired of by those who have done most in our favored climate 

 to bring out the newer and formerly unknown shades. 



In 1883, Mr. H. Waterer, of Philadelphia, brought an 

 importation from Japan of some fifty varieties, many of which 

 were most distinct and beautiful, which gave a new impulse 

 to hybridizing, as from that time to the present, the new 

 kinds that have appeared annually are almost numberless. 

 Among those imported from Japan by Mr. Waterer, we find 

 the following very excellent sorts : Gloriosum, Mrs. C. H. 

 Wheeler, Marvel, J. Collins, Duchess, H. Waterer, Pres. 

 Arthur, Snowstorm, Mrs. Geo. Bullock, Mrs. Vannaman, The 



