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delicate salmon-pink in color, and Mathilde, a beautiful pearly 

 white. 



The same exhibitor was awarded Honorable Mention for new 

 sweet peas, Queen Alexandra, a promising scarlet variety, and 

 Nora Unwin, an improved white variety. 



Honorable INIention was also awarded George HoUis for his 

 seedling peonies I^ucy E. Hollis, a flower of fine form, deep rosy 

 flesh in color, and IMary L. Hollis, a salmon flesh variety. 



The new sweet william, Sutton's Pink Beauty, was shown by 

 the Lowthorpe School of Horticulture and awarded Honorable 

 Mention. It is a pleasing shade of pink but not remarkable in 

 form of flower. 



On July 13 Mr. C. W. Parker was awarded Honorable Mention 

 for an exliibit of luuxly roses grown at his place in Marblehead. 

 They were of good size and showed but little the effects of the 

 prevailing dry weather. 



July 20 was Sweet Pea Day and proved one of the best exhibi- 

 tions of the summer. The wisdom of devoting special days to 

 the exhibition of the most popular flowers was most decidedly 

 apparent at this show, for never before has the sweet pea, in all its 

 beautiful shades, been so thoroughly shown here as at this exhibi- 

 tion. Every class was well competed for, there being as many 

 as sixteen competitors in some of them. 



The exhibition was highly appreciated both by the growers and 

 the public, who attended in large numbers. 



As a matter of record we give herewith a list of the varieties 

 which seemed to be most popular, naming only those which ap- 

 peared the greatest number of times in competition. In white 

 varieties we name Dorothy Eckfortl a-nd Mont Blanc; in light 

 pink or l)liish, Gladys Unwin, Lovely, and Countess Spencer; in 

 rose color, John Ingman; in blue or purple, Navy Blue and King 

 of the Purples; in lavender, INIrs. George Higginson and Countess 

 of Radnor; in red or crimson. King Edward VII; and in orange 

 or salmon, Helen Lewis and INIiss Willmott. 



Miscellaneous displays were quite numerous and some very 

 good things were shown, the most noticeable being a display of 

 herbaceous Delphiniums from James McKissock. They were 

 imported varieties from Lemoine and included some of the finest 



