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good; Miss "Ware, Miss Carter, Miss Strong and AV. T. Brigham: each 

 a large stand of Natives; Miss Strong: Mosses, Ferns and Fnngi, and 

 an interesting collection of Grasses. Miss Ware brought what was un- 

 doubtedly a Monotropa, yet it was not at once recognized as such, being 

 in color red and yellow, and so much resembling the Echeveria glauca 

 as to be readily mistaken for that. It was found at Auburndale, in the 

 usual habitat of the Monotropa, and on inspection presented all the 

 characteristics of it, except color. 



September 5. Joseph Brack: Zinnias in Class one, Lillipiit Dahlias, 

 and a large and varied display of Asters, most excellent in quality; 

 Hovej' & Co.: Zinnias, in Class one, and the best Specimen Bloom; also 

 Cut Flowers, Asters, Japan Lilies and double Petunias; A. McLaren 

 and J. F. Eogere: each Zinnias, in Class one; J. McTear: Zinnias, in 

 Class two. Cut Flowers and a dwarf Antirrhinum, Tom Thumb, so com- 

 pact in habit as to be valuable for edgings; C. B. Brigham: Zinnias in 

 Class two, and Cut Flowers; Mrs. C. B. Chase, Mrs. J. L. D'Wolf, 

 Mrs. S. Joyce, Miss Kenrick, Miss Wheeler and Miss Story: each a 

 Basket. These have indicated an increased skill from the first of the 

 season, until now they can hardly be excelled. F. Parkman: Cut Flow- 

 ers and Seedling Gladiolus of a high order; J. E. Westgate: Cut Flow- 

 ers, Japan Lilies and a pair of Bouquets ; W. C. Strong : Cut Flowers, 

 embracing many Gladiolus and Tritoma uvaria; Geo. Craft: a large col- 

 lection of Gladiolus, mainly seedlings of such quality as defy foreign 

 growers; J. L. D'Wolf and O. II. Feck: each Cut Flowers; J. iN'ugent: 

 seedling Gladiolus and Japan Lilies; Joseph Jackson, of Dorchester: a 

 plant of Campanula pyramidalis, nine feet high with thousands of blos- 

 soms; E. S. Rand, Jr.: Gaultheria Shallon, and three dishes of Japan 

 Lilies, all seedlings, and all good; Miss Ware: Ferns and Fungi; Miss 

 Harris and Miss Strong: Natives; Miss Susan Sanborn, of Rochester, 

 N. H.: Xymphea odorata, some pure white, and others various shades 

 of rose. AVe make further allusion to these hereafter. 



ANXTJAL EXniBITIOK. 



The contributors of twenty Greenhouse Plants were Messrs. Ilovey 

 & Co. and Jona. French. Ten Variegated leaved Plants, all hardy and 

 suitable for open culture, F. Parkman and Ilovey & Co.; eight Cala- 

 diums, Jona. French and Hovey & Co. ; twelve Ferns, J. French and 

 H. H. Hunnewell; six Ferns, Hovey & Co.; six Lycopods, Hovey & 

 Co. and II. II. Hunnewell; Specimen Plant, Hovey & Co. and H. H. 

 Hunnewell ; Specimen Variegated Plant, II, II. Hunnwcll and Hovey & 

 Co.; six Begonias, H. H. Hunnewell; Cut Flowers, W. C. Strong, 

 Hovey & Co., J. E. Westgate, F. Parkman, Jos. Breck, E. Flynn, J- 

 McTear, J. L. D'Wolf, O. H. Peck, E. Wason and Geo. Craft, the last 

 named, a mass of Gladiolus. Dahlias: C. J. Power, E. Flynn, Hovey & 



