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the best single specimen plants were awarded to S. ~R. 

 Payson, for Cibotium regale, and Hovey & Co., for 

 Pandanus recurvus ; for the best specimen variegated 

 plants, to Hovey & Co., for Pritchardia aurea var., and 

 H. H. Hunnewell, for Ananassa sativa fol. var. The 

 prize for the best new pot plant was awarded to H. II. 

 Hunnewell for a very fine plant of Phormium Colensoi 

 var. The Palms, Marantas, and Dracrenas were splendid. 

 The ferns were remarkably fine, and, besides the large 

 specimen plants, there was a collection from J. W. Mer- 

 rill of one hundred and thirty native and foreign species 

 and varieties. The newly established premiums for suc- 

 culent plants brought out a collection of two hundred 

 and sixteen species, from Louis Guerineau of the Cam- 

 bridge Botanic Garden, and one from Hovey & Co. of 

 one hundred and fifteen species. Fine collections of 

 caladiums, agaves, and lycopods, were shown. Among 

 the cut flowers the gladioli were most prominent. Noth- 

 ing seemed to please the visitors from abroad so much ; 

 and nothing surprised them so much as to be told that 

 almost all were seedlings raised by the exhibitors. The 

 dahlia renewed its old time beauty ; those shown by 

 George Everett being particularly fine. T. McCarty, 

 gardener at Forest Hills Cemetery, exhibited splendid 

 heads of bloom of the Hydrangea paniculata grandi- 

 flora, which has been pronounced the finest hardy shrub, 

 and was shown here for the first time. Contributions 

 came in so freely, that it became necessary to place 

 tables in the wide northern gallery. 



Nearly all the visitors viewed the exhibition from the 

 balconies, whence the stately tree ferns, the magnificent 

 Palms, the rich Dracaenas and Marantas, the graceful 

 ferns, and hundreds of other beautiful or curious plants, 



