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macher, Ismene calathina, Hsemanthus tenuiiiorus, Echi- 

 nocactus mammillarioides, E. Ottonis, and E. Eyresii; 

 from Joseph Breck, Iris Susiana ; from Hovey & Co., 

 Hydrangea Japonica, Nuttallia grandiflora, Platycodon 

 grandiflorum, Gesnera tubiflora, and Oestrum roseum ; 

 from O. H. Mather, Buddleya Lindleyana ; from Wil- 

 liam Meller, Clivia nobilis ; from Parker Barnes, Ipo- 

 mopsis picta. F. W. Macondray sent a cactus, nearly five 

 feet in circumference, from the Araucaria Mountains in 

 Chili. Cheever Newhall contributed a plant of Lager- 

 strcemia Indica, ten feet high, and six feet in diameter, 

 and full of bloom. The variety of hardy herbaceous 

 flowers and shrubs from Mr. Breck and the Messrs. 

 Winship was very large. President Wilder contributed 

 many new gladioli, azaleas, calceolarias, petunias, and 

 cinerarias. The variety in the forms of bouquets was 

 very great: round and flat vase bouquets, round and 

 flat hand bouquets, double-faced flat hand bouquets, cir- 

 cular bouquets, etc., are mentioned. John Fisk Allen, 

 whose collection of foreign grapes was very large (in 

 the course of his experiments he tested four hundred 

 kinds), exhibited twenty- two varieties on the 26th of 

 June. Mr. Allen also made frequent exhibitions of 

 forced peaches, nectarines, plums, cherries, and figs, as 

 well as of out-door fruits, gaining the prize for the best 

 and most interesting exhibition of fruits through the 

 season. The Houghton's Seedling gooseberry, the first 

 of those native varieties which have proved so valuable 

 for their exemption from mildew, was exhibited by 

 Josiah Lovett on the 7th of August. Frederick Tudor 

 from year to year exhibited remarkably fine specimens 

 of pears and other fruits from his gardens on the 

 exposed promontory of Nahant, where, in the shelter 



