REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PLANTS AND FLOWERS. 85 



March 7. 



This being premium day for Greenhouse Plants, a collection 

 was exhibited by Hovey & Co. The most noticeable plants were 

 Bletia TankerviUece, Euphorbia jacquim'flora, Rliyncospermum 

 jasminioides and AntJiurium Scherzerianum. The only competitor 

 for the Cj^clameu prize was James O'Brien, and the plants ex- 

 hibited fully sustained his well earned reputation as a grower of 

 this beautiful flower. The Camellias from Hovey & Co., were 

 indeed splendid ; the note of this display, on the book of the Chair- 

 man of the Committee, is that no better exhibition was ever made 

 here of this deservedly popular flower. James Comley exhibited a 

 very beautiful lot of cut flowers, also Aralia Veitchii, fully described 

 in Part I, page 45, of our Transactions for 1874. The superb 

 Oi'chids shown by E. S. Rand, Jr., are also described on page 46, 

 and the fine plant of Dendrohium nobile, exhibited by James 

 Cartwright, on page 49. Fine plants of Cinerarias, well-grown 

 and in health}'' condition, were shown by James Grey ; these were 

 very attractive, there being a pleasing variety in the color of the 

 flowers, and the plants themselves being large and very showy. 

 Mrs. A. D. Wood exhibited a collection of pot plants of choice 

 varieties of Cinerarias and Primulas. From Marshall P. Wilder 

 came the following fine Azaleas : Mad. Camille Van Langenhove, 

 snow white, some of the flowers barred with salmon, others striped 

 with light rose and carmine, a very beautiful and eff'ective variety ; 

 Cinti Striatella, a fine free flowering kind ; and Nonpareil, white, 

 ribboned with rose, and a splendid variety. From W. C. Strong, 

 there was 'a fine standard Hybrid Perpetual Rose, Carl Coers. 

 From George E. Davenport Cypripedium acaule, grown in a pot in 

 the sitting room window ; and from John Robinson, Trillium gran- 

 diflorum, with five flowers, treated the same as hyacinths. 



March 14. 



E. S. Rand, Jr., exhibited Cypripedium Haj-risianum, a hybrid 

 between C. barbatum and C. villosum. The plant was imported in 

 July, 1873, and at the time of exhibition there were two flowers on it ; 

 when well established it will undoubtedly be a fine object, ' A 

 handsomely trained plant of Kennedya Comptoniana, one of the 

 most beautiful evergreen climbers for the greenhouse, with purple 



