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say that this splendid display of the Gladiolus has never been 

 equalled. From James Comley were two splendid vases of Gloxin- 

 ias, new Phlox Mrs. Veitch, and Lapageria alba. '•'■ The Garden" 

 of 1872 speaks of this plant as now being " a beautiful ornament in 

 the conservatory at the Holme, Regent's Park. It is trained first on 

 a trellis against the wall, and then across the house on a strong 

 cord, about four feet from the roof and ten from the ground, th^ 

 shoots being allowed to hang gracefully down. On the opposite 

 side is a plant of the old, or crimson kind, which meets and min- 

 gles with the shoots of the white one. The effect of the mixture of 

 the variously colored flowers is, as may readily be supposed, very 

 charming. Their beauty is not fully seen when the plants are 

 trained stiffly against walls or trellises ; the shoots should be allowed 

 to hang down freely." W. H, Spooner, Jr., exhibited some very 

 fine new Gladioli and two fine vases of Lilium lancifoliam. From 

 James Nugent came a fine lot of Lilium auratum, and a magnifi- 

 cent spike of Hydraiujea }xmicxdata (pxmdijlora . George E. 

 Davenport contributed the following native plants from the sum- 

 mit of Mount Lafayette, N. H., at an altitude of 4,200 feet : Lycopo- 

 clium Selago, L. annoti7ium, Arctostapliylos Uva-ursi, Diapensia 

 Lapponica and Phyllodoce taxifolia. George E. Osgood contributed 

 a very pretty bouquet of native flowers ; W. K. Wood, a stand of 

 seedling petunias ; and George Everett new varieties of Phlox and 

 Clematis. 



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Special premiums being oflfered for Asters, an unusual competi- 

 tion for them was participated in by C. M. Atkinson, J. A. Black, 

 John Parker, John Robinson, James O'Brien, James Nugent, and 

 others. The flowers were very much better than in former seasons, 

 and it was gratifying to note the marked progress that has been 

 made in the cultivation of this beautiful annual ; particularly at- 

 tractive were the fine Washington Asters, of the purest white, from 

 C. H. B. Breck. 



The once popular Verbena seems to have lost ground of late 

 years, if we may judge from what are exhibited as the seasons 

 come around ; the only contributors were J. O'Brien and J. B. 

 Moore for the general collection ; and for the named collection no 

 contributions were offered. W. H. Spooner exhibited a \evy fine 

 collection of choice named varieties of Gladioli ; Joseph Tailby 



