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tensively as in former years, as your committee met with it but from two 

 gardens, Messrs. Bennett and Salmond's. Both of these gentlemen had 

 about twenty varieties. Mr. Bennett's were largest and most beautiful; 

 they were from the garden of Tripet-Eliree, Paris. Mr. Salmond de- 

 serves, however, a notice for the attention he has devoted to this flower. 



Your committee have to notice, with great satisfaction, the large num- 

 ber of roses which have been introduced and successfully cultivated 

 during the past season. Mr. Michel is entitled to the praises of this 

 body, for the great number which adorn his garden, one hundred varie- 

 ties of which, he informs us, were shown at the spring exhibition. This 

 gentleman, at great expense, has imported from France and elsewhere, 

 the finest varieties ; and the perfection to which he has brought them 

 evinces a thorough acquaintance with the various modes of propaga- 

 tion, and shows his enthusiastic devotion to this class of plants. We 

 award to him the medal for the largest collection and finest varieties of 

 roses; also a medal for his very elegant rose. La belle Hugenot. It 

 would be impossible to notice all the varieties grown in this garden, or 

 that of Mr. Bennett, which has always been noted for the profusion and 

 beauty of this flower. Mr. Howard, likewise, had many of surpassing 

 beauty. The rose is so great a favorite, that there is hardly a garden 

 which it does not assist to adorn. Our limits will only permit us to no- 

 tice that there were many beautiful and choice roses in the gardens of 

 Drs. Irving, Boylston, Moultrie and North; Messrs. Winthrop, Ben- 

 tham and Ripley; Mrs. Talvande, Mrs. Davis, &c. 



Many very beautiful pajonies blossomed this season, and it seems 

 to become a very favorite flower : only a few years back it was re- 

 markably rare to see a flower of this kind in our city. The handsomest 

 single flower which your committee saw, grew in the garden of Mr. 

 Gonsalez; it was the Pseonia jMoiitan, (tree pasony.) But Mr. How- 

 ard had the greatest number and largest flowers of the herbaceous kind. 

 There were many very fine ones in the gardens of Messrs. Bennett, 

 Bancroft, and Michel. 



The carnations were not generally fine; indeed, they do not seem to 

 deserve a medal this year. Some pretty ones were grown in the gar- 

 dens of Mrs. Schrieber, Messrs. M. Strobel, Carroll, Dupont and Guil- 

 lemin. 



A rare and very beautiful native plant, the Cordia Sebestlna, obtained 

 from Florida by Dr. Strobel, and cultivated by him, bloomed for the 

 first time in our city during the last summer; the committee recommend 

 that a premium for the introduction of the handsomest cultivated native 

 plant be awarded to Dr. Benjamin B. Strobel. 



Dr. Winthrop exhibited a remarkably beautiful and rare Rhododen- 

 dron arboreum, in luxuriant bloom; the plant was very large, and in a 

 flourishing condition. This specimen he has cultivated in the open 

 ground for three or four years, taking only the precaution of a slight 

 protection from the heat of summer and cold of winter. He had also 

 another beautiful ifhododendron. The committee think Mr. Winthrop 

 entitled to the i)remium for the most beautiful flowering exotic. 



Mrs. Schrieber had a most splendid specimen of Cactus Jenkinsonf, 

 which continued in bloom for a long time, and was so beautiful that 

 there was some doubt whether it or the jRhododendron was most entitled 

 to the premium. Among other beautiful exotics we may mention the 

 Cactus speciosus, Lechenaiiltirt formosa, (which is said to blossom nine 

 months in the year,) of Mr. Bennett's. The Plumieri'a tricolor and oth- 

 ers of Mr. Michel. Five varieties of Azalea, of Mr. Maynard Strobel, 

 and the Euphorbia Poinsettzf, of Messrs. Bennett and Gonsalez. In 

 Mrs. Wagner's garden there was exhibited a very splendid collection 

 of geraniums, Agapanthus, flowering myrtle, oleander and other exotics, 



