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entrance fees paid by the contributors. There were 

 three classes, for the best twelve blooms, the best six 

 blooms, and the best single specimen, two prizes in 

 each class. There were ten entries in each class. The 

 weather continued fine without frost up to the 17th; 

 and the lateness of the day gave several growers an 

 opportunity to display new kinds which had not pre- 

 viously flowered. The stands, taken together, were 

 finer than had ever before been exhibited. Several 

 hundred fine blooms were shown, besides those offered 

 for prizes. The names of all the flowers in the prize 

 collections were duly recorded in Hovey's Magazine of 

 Horticulture. 



The first thing we find to notice in the exhibitions of 

 1841 is the high bush blackberry cultivated by Eliphalet 

 Thayer in his garden, and exhibited on the 7th of 

 August, when it attracted much attention from its large 

 and beautiful appearance. The next week was marked 

 by the exhibition of the first of the Japan lilies which 

 are now so extensively cultivated. It was the Lilium 

 lancifolium album, and was shown by Marshall P. 

 Wilder. The plant had two flower spikes, on which 

 were eight expanded flowers and ten buds, and was, in 

 the estimation of the committee, " a superb plant." It 

 was not discovered, until about ten years later, that 

 these lilies would endure our winters in the open 

 ground. June 19, Mr. Wilder exhibited Clematis 

 azurea grandiflora, a fine new kind. 



The thirteenth annual exhibition was opened at noon 

 on Wednesday, Sept. 22, continuing three days, and 

 was even more fully attended than that of the pre- 

 vious year. The side of the room opposite the en- 

 trance was decorated with evergreens, in front of 



