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for thcin on the scheduled dates owing to the extreme lateness of 

 the season. 



The exhibit of hardy rhododendrons and Kalmias from Walter 

 Hunnewell was also indicative of the lateness of the season, for 

 probably these flowers have never been showTi in Boston later than 

 this date. 



Among the miscellaneous displays J^Ionorable ^lentions were 

 awarded Frederic J. Rea for Iri^ orienfalis Snow Queen, a beauti- 

 ful pure white form of this plant; E. J. Shaylor for seedling peony 

 Number 2; George HoUis for seedling peony Geo. Mollis; Dr. 

 Charles S. Minot for the French peony Mons. Charles Leveque; 

 ^^In. ^Yhitman for a beautiful display of Digitalis; and to J. 

 Lawson, gardener to Edward J. Mitton, for superior cultivation of 

 Crassula coccinea. 



A First Class Certificate of Merit was awarded J. E. RothwtMl 

 for his seedling Cypripedium Emil Johanssohn. It is the result 

 of C. Euryale X C. Philippi7iense. In color it is similar to its 

 seed parent while the form of the flower resembles the pollen parent, 

 with a tendency to produce several flowers on each spike. 



A First Class Certificate was also awarded James McKissock 

 for the new peony Rosa Bonheur, a beautiful shade of pink in c-olor 

 and of good form. 



A Cultural Certificate was awarded James Cartwright, gardener 

 to J. R. Leeson, for a splendid plant of Oncidium spharelatuni. 



The extraordinary change in the weather conditions following 

 the very moist and cool spring was noticeable in the exliibitions of 

 July 6 and 13. The sudden change to hot and dry weather was 

 very detrimental to out-door flowers and materially lessened the 

 displays. There were some fine things shown, however, including 

 a remarkably well-grown plant of Odonfoglossum citrosmum, «ith 

 immense bulbs and branching spikes of unusual length. The 

 plant was exhibited by J. T. Butterworth and a Cultural Certificate 

 was awarded him for it. 



A Cultural Certificate was also awarded James Crosbie, gardener 

 to Mrs. J. W. Tufts, for a large plant of Crassula coccinea, bearing 

 one hundred and sixty heads of bloom. 



First Class Certificates w^re awarded the Langwater (hardens 

 for two verv handsome varieties of Gladiolus nanus Peach Blossom, 



