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Parkman showed two new hybrid varieties of trumpet 

 narcissus, the Emperor and Empress ; a new seedling 

 polyanthus, Golden Crown ; and Anthericum liliago. 

 E. W. Wood showed fine specimens of Medinilla 

 magnifica; James Comley, a handsome seedling tri- 

 colored Zonal pelargonium named President Hyde, and 

 another double seedling variety; Hovey & Co., Spiraea 

 palmata and Sciadopitys verticillata, new plants from 

 Japan ; John Bichardson showed another seedling pse- 

 ony, Rubra Superba; W. K. Wood, Excsecaria Co- 

 chinchinensis ; Louis Guerineau of the Botanic Garden, 

 Cambridge, Delphinium nudicaule, and Desmodium gy- 

 rans, or telegraph plant ; C. M. Atkinson, a new seed- 

 ling carnation, Lady Bird ; E. H. Hitchings, many rare 

 native plants, among which were a clear white and a 

 rose colored variety of Lobelia cardinalis ; and George 

 Everett, Lilium tigrinum fiore pleno. Charles S. Sar- 

 gent exhibited the first forced plants of lily of the 

 valley, which has now become so popular for winter 

 blooming. From the Cambridge Botanic Garden came 

 thirty species and varieties of hardy Sempervivums ; and 

 from Waldo O. Ross, Pachyphytum bracteosum, Stapelia 

 bufonis, and a variety of Sempervivums. These were 

 the first collections shown of the "succulents" in which 

 so much interest has since been taken. The prizes for 

 the best specimen plant at the rose show were awarded 

 to Francis Parkman, for Thujopsis dolabrata variegata ; 

 C. S. Sargent, for Cupressus Lawsoniana erecta ; and 

 Hovey & Co., for Statice imbricata; and, for the best 

 new pot plant at the annual exhibition, to Charles S. 

 Sargent, for Phormium tenax variegatum. 



Although the fruit crop of 1871 was not as large as 

 that of the previous year, the season was, on the whole, 



