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flowers are exquisitely fragrant, and remain six weeks in perfec- 

 tion. The plant exhibited was two feet in diameter and bore six- 

 teen expanded flowers. It is doubtless a natural seedling hybridized 

 by insect agency from C. Trianoi, and has been named Cattleya 

 Triance Daisy. Mr. Rand also showed flowers of the tj^ie C. Tri- 

 anoe from a plant which came from Prof. Reichenbach, the greatest 

 living orchidologist. 



F. L. Ames exhibited the following new and rare species. 



Cypripedhim longifnlimn. — This is not a showy species, but it is 

 a desirable one, as it is said never to be out of flower. The flowers 

 are greenish white and brown, rnan^' on a spike ; foliage long, dark 

 green. 



Cypripedium Dominianvm. — A cross between C. caricinmm and 

 C cmidatn7n. Spike three flowered ; petals 3'ellowish green, very 

 long ; lip purple, green, and yellow. 



Dendrobium M'Carthice. — A ver}' beautiful plant, producing 

 bright cherry red flowers, which last long in perfection ; lip white 

 and purple. It is a free grower and produces abundance of flowers. 



James Comley has also exhibited Cymbidium aloifolvam, a very 

 pretty orchid from the East Indies, and Aerides odoratum^ a very 

 interesting orchid from India. 



Indian Azaleas. — The exhibition of Azaleas occurred on the 

 8th of April. The exhibitors were Marshall P. Wilder, J. B. 

 Moore and Hovey & Co., each of whom exhibited good collections 

 of plants. Although there have not been as many good specimen 

 plants exhibited as there were the preceding season, there were 

 many fine plants shown, most noticeable among them being the fol- 

 lowing varieties from Marshall P. Wilder, the descriptions of which 

 may be found in some of the leading catalogues. 



Alba illustrata plena. M'lle Louise de Kerchove. 



Baron de Vriere. Marie Le Febvre. 



Bernhard Andrea. Neptune. 



Bernhard Andrea alba. President Claeys. 



Countess of Beaufort. Punctulata variegata. 



Eugenie de Kerchove, Rachel von Varnhagen. 



JuUette. Roi de Belgique. 



La Victoire. Sigismond Rucker. 



Madame Mendel. Souvenir de Maximilien. 



The varieties from James Comley were mostly the same as those 



