REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PLANTS AND FLOWERS. 21 



shown h\ him last season, which were fully mentioned in our last 

 report ; the plants were small, but the varieties were showy and 

 distinct. 



Hovey & Co. have exhibited from their extensive collection, 

 besides other varieties, plants of 



Bijou de Paris. Mad. Vandercruyssen. 



Constant van Keirsbilck. Monstrosa. 



Flag of Truce. Souvenir de Maximilien. 



La Victoire. WilHam Tell. 



Mad. Marie Van Houtte. 



No better plants have ever been exhibited than those from J. B. 

 Moore ; the varieties shown were Stella, a very fine specimen, three 

 feet high and very handsomel}' proportioned, also, Etoile de Flandre, 

 Mad. Marie Lefeb\Te, Marie Vervaene, Todmanii, Juliana, and La 

 Deesse. 



February 12th, John F. Rogers exhibited a specimen plant of 

 Criterion, a well-known variety ; this plant was four feet high, four 

 in diameter and ten in circumference, and was in very fine condition. 

 .June 10th, another splendid specimen was shown b}' CM. Atkin- 

 son, the variety being Decora. The plant was six feet high, four in 

 diameter, and twelve in circumference, and was one of the Ijest 

 specimens ever exhibited. The contrast of the richly colored 

 flowers with the healthy foliage rendered it an object of great 

 beauty. 



Hovey & Co. exhibited a seedling azalea, of which the Committee 

 have made the following description from notes furnished by C. M. 

 Hovey. It is a hji^rid raised a fcAv years since between Azalea 

 amoena and A. Indica, the object being to produce a variety as 

 dense and dwarf in growth as amoena, and flowering as freely and 

 as earl}', but with flowers of a brighter or lighter color. This object 

 has been partly accomplished, the habit of the seedling being even 

 more dense and dwarf than that of amoena, and it is also a more 

 profuse bloomer, while the flowers are somewhat larger, and single 

 like those of A. Indica, with a larger tube, which gives them a free 

 and loose appearance, unlike the stiff" set blooms of the female 

 parent. The color is a clear pale rc>Se, or rosy lilac, and the plant 

 when in full bloom is literally covered with flowers. 



It is hardly possible, in a brief space, to do justice to a plant so 

 useful and ornamental as the azalea Nothing: can be grander than the 



