FLOWER committee's REPORT. 7 



truss like Solanum jasminoicles. As the calyx is quite })ersistent, and as 

 it has a long succession of bloom, it presents the appearance, at a little 

 distance, of a bunch of white flowers interspersed with scarlet. A plant 

 of this, profusely in bloom and finely trained, was exhibited at the 

 " Opening of the Hall, " by Mr. Hunncwell, and took the first prize as a 

 Specimen Plant. For its rarity and great beauty, it was considered one 

 of the most attractive plants ever contributed to our exhibitions. 



Also, on April 4th, J. McTear : a well grown plant of Deutzia crenata 

 fl. pi. A new hardy shrub, a little more robust than the D. gracilis, and 

 much less so than the D. scabra, and more valuable than either, for its 

 well filled flowers. Pure white, like the others, when grown under 

 glass; it gives promise of becoming a popular favorite. 



G. "W. Pratt: Four varieties of Calceolarias, of great size and vigor 

 of habit, and of the more intense colors common to that flower. 



Ilovey & Co. showed at this date the first plant of the variegated 

 Japan Maize, which has since become more generally known. 



April 25. There was no competition for Tulips, but instead, a collec- 

 tion of unnamed, by J. Kugent. 



May 9. Hovey & Co. took the first prize for Hyacinths, with the fol- 

 lowing early varieties, La Cour de France, Argus, Gesneria, La Augur. 

 Superintendant, Golden Standard, Colour Cardinal, Victoria, Pottebakker 

 White, Belle Rose, Yermilion Brilliant, Royal Standard, Duchess of 

 Parma, Olympus, The Monument, Thomas Moore, Archduke of Aus- 

 tria, Proserpine, Grootmeester and Yellow Prince. 



They also showed a general collection of twenty blooms, all good; and 

 fine specimens of Trillium grandiflorum. 



It is a question here, whether the prize day for Tulips should not be 

 fixed to embrace the late varieties also. 



Messrs. Hovey & Co. also won the first prize for Js'arcissus. Their 

 display numbered forty blooms, embracing nine varieties, viz. : two of 

 Trumpet Major, three of Polyanthus flowered; Van Sion, Sulphur Crown, 

 Orange Phoenix, one each, and one unnamed. This show was too early 

 to meet the Poeticus and some others. 



May 16. Messrs. "Walker & Co. exhibited one hundred blooms of 

 late Tulips, excellent in quality and of good variety. This brings us to 

 the 



Opening of the Hall, on the 23d of May. 



We shall now allude to some of the more noteworthy of the contribu- 

 tions, and report the awards afterward in the order of their occurrence. 



Jona. French contributed a collection of Greenhouse Plants, and one 

 of Fancy Pelargoniums. Hovey & Co. : Greenhouse Plants, Greenhouse 

 Azaleas and Japan Maize. H. H. Hunnewell: a collection of Show 

 Pelargoniums, and that elegant climber before noticed, the Clerodendron 

 Thompsonia. W. C. Strong: a collection of Zonal Pelargoniums. F.. 



