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son Rambler, deeper in color and very promising. He was also 

 awarded a Bronze Medal for a collection of early-flowering chry- 

 santhemums. These varieties are remarkable for their earliness 

 as they were in full bloom thus early in the season and were all 

 raised from cuttings taken at the usual time. As a flower for 

 summer cutting they are quite valuable. The varieties shown 

 were Robbie Burns, Goacher's Pink, Goacher's Crimson, Fire- 

 light, ]Marie ]Massie, White Marie ^Nlassie, Ryecroft Pink, Horace 

 Martin, jNIrs. Xonin, Emily Grunnewald, Ideal, and Ralph Curtis. 



The exhibition on July 7, although a Saturday show, was the 

 finest summer exhibition we have had for many years. With the 

 exception of Pentstemons all the classes were well competed for 

 and in addition there were many fine miscellaneous exhibits. 

 Particularly interesting among these were the display of herbaceous 

 plants from the Harvard Botanic Garden, filling eighty-four vases, 

 and the display of the Farquhar rose made by J. W. Duncan 

 from the Boston Park Department. The latter was a beautiful 

 exhibit and well illustrated the great value of this as a free-flower- 

 ing variety, when of sufficient age, as well as its remarkable grow- 

 ing abilities. The flowers exhibited were cut from plants grown 

 as creepers in a large bed, and it is worthy of note that this variety 

 is a great success when grown iu this way. 



Duncan Finlayson was given a Cultural Certificate for a finely 

 grown Dendrobium thyrsiflorum, and Honorable Mention was 

 awarded Mrs. Frederick Ayer for the new marguerite. Queen 

 Alexandra, a variety with pure white ray petals and brownish- 

 crimson disk, the latter often producing a succession of white ray 

 petals thereby making a flower with an anemone-formed center. 



On July 14 J. Tailby & Son were awarded Honorable ^Mention 

 for a new hybrid Richardia, Mrs. Joseph Tailby. It is a cross 

 between R. albo-maculata and R. EUioitiana and is apparently a 

 strong grower, bearing a flower nearly as deep in color as EUioitiana. 



The same award was also given them for Lonicera tragophi/lla, 

 a species with large yellow flowers and glaucous, perfoliate leaves. 

 The specimen exhibited was not of sufficient strength to allow of 

 correct judgment of its value. 



The Sweet Pea Show on July 21 was quite a sviccessful one. 

 There was a large and instructive display of sweet peas well shown 

 and competed for. 



