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and perennials of out-door growth. It was thought 

 that these displays would be very instructive as well as 

 interesting ; but the competition did not meet the ex- 

 pectations of the committee. The tuberous rooted 

 begonias were again shown by James Comley and F. W. 

 Andrews. E. S. Eand, jun., and others, exhibited many 

 new and rare orchids. James Cartwright sent on the 

 6th of February a very fine plant of Ccelogyne cristata, 

 having seven spikes of beautiful white flowers ; and 

 William Gray, jun., on the 27th' of November, a Cypri- 

 pedium insigne, with fifty flowers and buds. H. H. 

 Hunnewell showed on the 3d of April two superb 

 specimen rhododendrons, Prince Eugene and Rollis- 

 sonii, and at the pelargonium show three Himalayan 

 species, Dalhousiae, formosum magnificum, and Sesteria- 

 num, and a finely trained specimen plant of clematis 

 Lord Londesborough. James Comley showed Dracaena 

 Shepherdii, Cupania filicifolia, and Lobelia pumila gran- 

 diflora. Waldo O. Ross sent Mammillaria Newmanniana 

 and M. stella-aurata ; Hovey & Co., Anthurium crystalli- 

 mum and Ficus Bonneti; Edward S. Rand, jun., Nym- 

 phsea ccerulea and N. Devoniensis ; Francis Parkman., 

 the finest collection of aquilegias ever exhibited, Thalic- 

 trum aquilegifolium, and a variety of superb clematises ; 

 H. H. Ilunnewell, Clematis indivisa, and flower spikes 

 of Agave Americana ; Joseph Clark, gardener to Mrs. 

 T. W. Ward, a superb specimen of Eucharis Amazonica ; 

 and James McTear, Nertera depressa. The interest in 

 originating new varieties of flowers continued, especially 

 with regard to the gladiolus, late phloxes, greenhouse 

 azaleas, and gesneriaceous plants. 



At the annual exhibition the plants and flowers were 

 shown hi the Music Hall, the arrangements being much 



