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The names of the winning varieties for the prizes offered by the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society were as follow: 



White, Nora Unwin; crimson or scarlet, Queen Alexandra 

 Spencer; rose or carmine, John Ingraham; yellow or buff, Prim- 

 rose Spencer; blue, Romola Piazzani; blush. Duplex Spencer; 

 cerise. Norma; deep pink, George Washington; violet or purple, 

 Duke of Westminster; magenta, Waverley Spencer; mauve, 

 Arthur Green; maroon or bronze. Black Knight; picotee edged. 

 Phenomenal; striped or flaked, red or rose, Aurora; striped or 

 flaked, blue or purple. Prince Olaf. 



Rev. W. T. Hutchins' display included Arthur Green, Mrs. 

 Breadmore, Vermilion Brilliant, Gladys Burt, Evelyn Hemus, 

 Rose de Barri, Midnight, Martha Washington, Aurora, America, 

 and Mrs. Higginson. 



W. Atlee Burpee's exhibit received the Gold Medal of the Sweet 

 Pea Society and the special prize for the best exhibit in the halls. 

 The best were as follow: white, lolanthe, Dorothy Eckford, and 

 Nora Unwin; red or salmon. Earl of Chester, Stirling Stent, 

 Barbara, Saint George, Thos. Stevenson, and Vermilion Brilliant; 

 pink, Aurora Spencer, Constance Oliver, Janet Scott Spencer, 

 Gladys Burt, Lovely Spencer, and Duplex Mary Garden; lavender, 

 R. F. Felton, Florence Nightingale, Emily Eckford, Asta Ohn 

 Spencer, and Flora Norton Spencer; blue or purple. Purple Prince 

 and Tennant Spencer; primrose or buff. Primrose Spencer, Mrs. 

 C. W. Breadmore, Queen Victoria Spencer, Lady Knox, and 

 Dobbie's Cream. 



A specially select list should include Juliet, salmon, tinted pink; 

 Earl of Chester, reddish salmon; Dorothy, lavender; Othello, 

 dark; Gladys Burt, salmon-pink; lolanthe and Nora Unwin, 

 white; Lavender Queen, Dobbie's Cream, and Irish Bell, rosy 

 mauve; Helen Pierce, Spencer, and Romola Piazzani, blue. 



A Gold Medal was awarded R. & J. Farquhar & Co. for a grand 

 display of a new, hardy white lily, Lilium myriophyllum, collected 

 by E. H. Wilson in China. This is the coming white-flowered 

 summer lily and there is hardly another of its merits. 



A First Class Certificate went to the Messrs. Farquhar for a 

 small pink-spotted lily of the Turk's Cap type, named Lilium 

 Duchartrci, also one of Wilson's collecting. 



