20 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Sigisimund Mucker. 



VuurwerTc. 



From John B. Moore came good specimen plants of the follow- 

 ing fine varieties, all in the best possible condition ; the flowers 

 large and fine, the foliage healthy and handsomely intermixed with 

 the flowers : 



Carl Enke. — Bright rose edged with white. 



Decora. 



Dieudonne Spae. — Rose, bordered with white and striped with 

 carmine ; a fine plant. 



Etendard de Flandre. 



Flag of Truce. 



Francois de Vos. 



Julkma. 



Madame Iris Lefebvre. 



Marie Lefebvre. 



Marie Vervaene. 



Vesuvius. 



Special attention was directed to a gronp of seedlings from 

 Marshall P. Wilder, exhibited ou the 24th of February. The 

 plants were small, being about eighteen inches high ; the flowers 

 were good, but no better than many well known varieties ; they 

 were but three years from seed, the principal point being that they 

 were brought into flower in so short a time from the sowing of the 

 seed. As soon as the seedlings were large enough they were grafted 

 on strong growing stocks, by which process they were brought 

 to flower much earlier than if left on their own roots, saving much 

 time in waiting for the result of the produce!'' s labors. 



Cinerarias. — It was the unanimous opinion of the Committee 

 that the plantsjshown by J. Warren Merrill on the 17th of February 

 were the best that have been exhibited for the past ten years. The 

 Cineraria in its improved condition is indispensable in any collec- 

 tion of greenhouse plants ; there are very few if any plants so gay 

 and beautiful during the winter months, so that it is highly useful 

 both for exhibition and decorative purposes. The plants, both as 

 to variety of color and good cultivation, were all that could be 

 desired. We hope that the success attained by Mr. Merrill will 

 stimulate others to go and do likewise. 



Polyanthus. — The only exhibitor was C. M. Atkinson, who 

 showed six well grown plants. This is an old but too much 



