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of one color, one flower each, in five colors. Three were com- 

 peted for as follows in white, pink, and red. The competition was 

 instructive in showing that many named varieties are alike, and the 

 list is given here for that purpose. White — Marie Lemoine, 

 Mdlle. Calot, Festiva Maxima, Baroness Schroeder, Marie Jacquin, 

 and Couronne d'Or. Red — Eugene Bigot, Sir Fred. Leighton, 

 Plutarch, Marechal Vailliant, Felix Crousse, Louis Van Houtte, 

 and Frances Ortegal. Pink — La Perle, Therese, Mdlle. Emile 

 • Galle, Triomph de I'Exposition Universelle, Dorchester, and Venus. 



Some of the notable peonies in the Messrs. Farquhar's collection 

 were Emile Hoste, white; Meissonieu, deep red; Marie, blush; 

 Gen. Bedan, rose; Victor Lemoine, blush; Venus, light rose; 

 and Agnes Mary Kehvay, pink with Japanese center. Among 

 E. J. Shaylor's were Tourngalle, blush (First Class Certificate); 

 Soulange, white (First Class Certificate); Lewiston, lavender; 

 Georgiana Shaylor, blush; Marguerite Gerard, light pink; Beau- 

 ty's Mask, lavender, showing yellow stamens. 



The Harvard Botanic Garden made an attractive display of 

 water plants including Nymphaea Marliacea alba, N. M. rosea, 

 N. M. chroviatcUa, N. M. candidissima, Nymphaea Lydekeri, var. 

 Rohinsoniana, N. L. fnlgens, N. L. candidissima, Sahinia natans, 

 Equisefum hycmalc, Papyrus antiquorum, and Typha latifolia. 



The Mount Desert Nurseries made a seasonal display of herba- 

 ceous flowers, among them Saxifraga pyramidalis and S. Macna- 

 hiana, pretty and interesting alpine plants very common in Euro- 

 pean gardens, but of doubtful hardiness here. They need a cover- 

 ing of snow. 



William Whitman and Mrs. E. M. Gill made attractive displays 

 of mixed herbaceous flowers, and Walter Hunnewell showed 

 Spiraea Veitchii, one of Wilson's collections in China. This is a 

 distinct and graceful white-flowered species, quite hardy, but up to 

 the present time a very shy bloomer. It evidently will make a 

 large bush. Mr. Hunnewell also displayed Rhododendron wellesli- 

 anum, a late-flowering variety, a cross between R. viaximum and a 

 R. catawbiense hybrid. 



