REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PLANTS AND FLOWERS. 89 



AZALEA EXHIBITION. 



April 25. 



This exhibition was hardly up to the usual standard, probably 

 owing to the absence of those who have been looked upon as regu- 

 lar contributors ; there were, however, some fine large plants ex- 

 hibited by Marshall P. Wilder, probably as large as any ever ex- 

 hibited. These plants were well trained, not by tj'ing, but by 

 being kept pruned and pinched in shape, and afforded full proof 

 of the skill and good taste of the exhibitor, and though old 

 varieties were not equalled by many of the new ones. There was 

 also a collection of six varieties from Hovey & Co. 



For the first time in a number of years, the premium for Polyan- 

 thus drew out an exhibitor, C. M. Atkinson, who showed twelve 

 very fine distinct varieties. E. S. Rand, Jr., exhibited a small 

 plant of Cattleya Skinneri. William Gray, Jr., sent two hand- 

 some Zonale Geraniums, which were well grown, short jointed, 

 with unusually fine foliage, extending to the rim of the pot, no 

 part of the stems being naked. These were fine healthy specimens, 

 and showed that more than ordinary care had been bestowed upon 

 them to bring them to so high a state of perfection. They were 

 grown in twelve inch pots and were some three feet high and as 

 mu(!h through, with trusses of bloom truly enormous. Mr. Gray 

 also exhibited twelve very large and fine heads of bloom of as 

 many varieties. James Comley showed a choice collection of cut 

 flowers ; James McTear, bouquets and Amaryllis regina; CM. 

 Atkinson, six Pansies in pots, of a handsome dark variet}^, well 

 grown and flowered ; Hovej' & Co., Tree Pneony Gloria Belgarum 

 and cut flowers of that beautiful Camellia, Mrs. Anna Maria 

 Hovey; Robert Manning, Cornus mascula; Mrs. C. W. Jaquitte, 

 Pelargonium Mad. Von de Were, a very pretty little plant grown 

 in a window ; Mrs. C. N. S. Horner, native flowers and ferns ; and 

 several other contributors, baskets, bouquets and cut flowers. 



May 2. 



There was but little to-day to make a special note of. Miss 

 Saunders showed Draba Garoliniana ; James McTear, a pretty 

 Clematis from North Carolina, and Primula cortusoides; J. H. 



