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a committee to present to the City Government a re- 

 monstrance against their removal. This action, though 

 it may have delayed the destruction of these trees, could 

 not wholly avert it. They were removed in February, 

 1874, a short time after another effort had been made 

 to save them, the first one falling while the Society was 

 engaged in a horticultural discussion. 



The Committee on Plants and Flowers reported that 

 the exhibitions during the season of 1871 had been 

 larger and better than ever before. While the general 

 displays of cut flowers at the weekly shows had some- 

 what diminished in numbers, those of specialties, novel- 

 ties, and hybrid seedling varieties, both pot and cut 

 specimens, had steadily increased, so as to form the 

 most interesting and instructive part of the exhibitions. 

 The opening and rose shows having been found to come 

 so near together as to affect each other injuriously, the 

 experiment was tried this year of making the rose show 

 the grand summer exhibition, and proved entirely suc- 

 cessful. It was held in both halls, which wore filled 

 with one of the largest and best displays of choice plants 

 and flowers ever made by the Society. At the annual 

 exhibition the display of both plants and flowers was 

 good, especially that of plants, which were well grown 

 and in great variety. Their arrangement on smaller 

 and lower platforms was found to be an improvement. 



The committee recorded, as deserving of particular 

 mention, the many rare orchids exhibited by J. G. 

 Barker, gardener to G. G. Hubbard, among which 

 were Oncidium amictum, Cattleya elegans, Epidendrum 

 lancifolium, and E. atropurpureum roseum. James 

 McTear exhibited Azalea Indica Souvenir de Prince Al- 

 bert, Arabis lucida, and Campanula garganica. Francis 



