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A number of special awards were made to exliibits of special 

 merit including Honorable Mention to Mrs. David S. Greenough 

 for a beautiful white tree peony with very long petals artistically 

 arranged. The variety was without name it being an imported 

 plant from Japan, the native name of which having been lost. 



Honorable Mention was awarded the Boston Park Department 

 for a vase of the beautiful Bechtel's double-flowering crabapple, 

 Malus loensis, fl. pi. The flowers are like small pink roses of a 

 soft apple-blossom shade and borne in great profusion. 



Cereus Eyresii ■\\'as shown by the Harvard Botanic Garden and 

 awarded Honorable Mention. It is a handsome flower of a beauti- 

 ful rose-pink shade. 



The collection of tree peonies from Mr. James McKissock, 

 mentioned above, was awarded Honorable Mention it being the 

 finest collection of named varieties ever shown here. 



Three new herbaceous plants were shown by the Blue Hill 

 Nurseries and were all awarded Honorable Mention: Thalictnim 

 Delavayi, with spikes of large rosy-purple flowers and prominent 

 petaloid sepals; Arenaria montana, a fine species with large white 

 flowers; and Incarvillea grandiflora, similar to I. Delavayi, but 

 much darker and more crimson in color. 



The show on June 22, though postponed, was still too early for 

 a good display of peonies and little out of the ordinary was shown 

 in these flowers. There were remarkable displays of German 

 irises and herbaceous plants from R. & J. Farquhar & Co., Blue 

 Hill Nurseries, and F. J. Rea. 



The display of R. & J. Farquhar & Co. filled four large tables 

 and was awarded Honorable Mention. 



The display of Pyrethrums from William Whitman should also 

 be mentioned for we have seldom if ever seen a display equal to it. 



The displays of Pyrethrums, irises, and other herbaceous plants 

 at this show as well as at previous ones were remarkable for the 

 quantity of blooms shown of each variety, for most of them were 

 represented by large vases of each variety or species and not by a 

 few individual blossoms or sprays. 



The exliibition held June 29 was remarkable for the fact that 

 most of the rose and peony classes, scheduled for .June 14, 15, and 

 22, were competed for at this time, no entries having been made 



