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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The principal exhibitors in the "Show," "Decorative," and 

 "Cactus" classes were A. E. Johnson, W. D. Hathaway, Herman 

 Winter, J. K. Alexander, and Mrs. L. A. Towle. 



The Messrs. Farquhar put up a very interesting and beautiful 

 lot of the new "Peony-flowered" kinds prominent among them 

 being Hollandia, pink; Solfatarre, red; King Leopold, yellow; 

 Garibaldi, dark red; Paul Kruger, red, lighter shadings; and Baron 

 de Graney, white. Other especially good dahlias noted were 

 Semiramis (Decorative), pink with yellow shadings; Ajor (Cactus), 

 salmon red; John Walker (Show), white; and Lemon Giant 

 (Decorative). 



The Henry A. Dreer Co. of Philadelphia made an attractive 

 display of water lilies, and B. Hammond Tracy of Wenham put 

 up a neat dinner table decorated with gladiolus " Dawn," a lovely 

 shell pink variety. Mr. Tracy also made an attractive display of 

 gladioli among them being especially worthy of note the following: 

 Independence, salmon rose, deeper eye; Liberty, red, banded with 

 light yellow; Seedling No. 24, deep red banded with white, Lemoine 

 type; Sunrise, light yellow, not large flowered; Jean Findulay, 

 white, tinted deeper throat; Purity, tinted white; Harvard, dark 

 red; Kathryn, magenta; Princess Sandersoni, white; Seedling 

 No. 8, satin buff, banded yellow, deeper eye; Seedling No. 78, rose, 

 banded lemon, deeper eye; Mcintosh, deep red; Seedling No. 1, 

 light pink flushed, deeper throat; Mrs. Frances King, satin red; 

 Dawn, flushed pink, large, deep eye; and Fireside, large, red 

 streaked. 



Mrs. J. L. Gardner had some good specimen ferns as Adiantum 

 polypkyUum, A. Wiegandi, and D avail in fijicnsis, and Thomas Watt 

 sent a fine plant of Onddium varicosum Rogersii. 



The Messrs. Farquhar had their new double tuberous begonia 

 Alice Manning which was awarded Honorable Mention. It has 

 handsome pendulous yellow flowers. They also received a Vote of 

 Thanks for a collection of new Chinese plants, including Clematis, 

 Lonicera, Sobraria, and a Rubus in fruit. 



Thomas E. Proctor of Topsfield made a large display of excel- 

 lently grown Adiantum Farleyense accompanying his fruit exhibit, 

 and the Fottler, Fiske, Rawson Co. made a very attractive display 

 of dahlias, showing their holder, and received a Silver Medal. 



