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and the same to Martin Davis, for the Davis's Seedling 

 potato. 



The exhibitions of 1855 showed an increased interest 

 in every department. A new camellia, now called 

 Mrs. Anne Marie Hovey, producing pink, white, and 

 variegated flowers on the same plant, was shown by 

 Hovey & Co', for the first time. June 19, John B. 

 Moore exhibited twelve stalks of Victoria rhubarb, 

 weighing twenty-four and a half pounds, the largest 

 stalk weighing two pounds and seven ounces. July 7, 

 M. H. Simpson presented specimens of grapes grown 

 on vines from which crops had been taken in March, 

 1854, and again in December of the same year. C. F. 

 Jones exhibited several orchids in fine bloom, including 

 Dendrobium moschatum, and Stanhopea tigrina. Some 

 of the displays of roses and other cut flowers were re- 

 markably fine, being limited in extent only by the size 

 of the hall. The seedling and other phloxes from 

 Joseph Breck, Hovey & Co., and Parker Barnes, and 

 seedling petunias from E. S. Rand, jun., were. particu- 

 larly noted. On the 1st of September eleven cultivators 

 offered collections of asters for premium, the whole form- 

 ing the finest display of this flower ever made in the 

 hall. At the same time J. F. Allen exhibited Nelum- 

 bium speciosum (the lotus of the Nile and the sacred 

 bean of India), Nelumbium luteum of the Southern 

 States, and Nymphsea coerulea, grown in the tank with 

 the Victoria regia. The Myrsiphyllum asparagoides, 

 now so popular for decorative purposes under the name 

 of " smilax," was exhibited by Herman Grundcl, gar- 

 dener to Hovey & Co. 



The interest in the improvement of the native grape 

 continued. Specimens of the Delaware were sent to 



