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From James Comley came a ckoice collection of new and rare 

 plants, as follows : 



Adiantum amabtle, Croton undulatum^ 



" Hendersoni, " Veitchii, 



" Peruvianum, " Weismanni, 



Asplenncm angissima, Dracaena amahilis, 



" viviparum, " metallica, 



Caladium Donizetti, " nigro-stricta, 



" Duchartre, " rubra-elegans, 



" Princess Alexandra, " Shepherdii, 



Croton aiicubcefoUum, " Yoimgii, 



" fuscatum, Maranta Makoyana, 



" inter ruptuw,, " Seemanni. 

 " irregulare^ 



In addition to the new plants just named, Mr. Comley sent 

 a fine collection, conspicuous among which were many well- 

 grown specimens of good standard varieties of Ferns, Caladiuins, 

 Marantas, and other well known plants. No one has done more 

 than INIr. Comley to sustain the interest of the exhibitions, and the 

 Committee feel it due to him to mention that fact at this time, with 

 the hope that it may always so continue. From Ilovey & Co. 

 there was a fine collection of miscellaneous plants, the most no- 

 ticeable being some very fine Crotons and splendid varieties of 

 Coleus, a new Golden Variegated Hydrangea, Eurya latifoUa, a 

 fine shrub for the lawn ; Gustavia Braziliensis, Ficus Cooperi^ and 

 Todea barbara, the last imported fifteen years ago, and, Mr. Hovey 

 says, now exhibited for the first time. 



From L. Guerineau came a splendid plant of Peristeria elata, 

 with one hundred and fifty-six buds and flowers ; and native plants 

 from Mrs. C. N. 8. Horner; a splendid stand of Hybrid Perpetual 

 roses from Joseph Clark ; Flower Garden Designs, very neatly 

 arranged, from Richard Allison, James Leister and Henry Youell ; 

 from E. H. Titus a very neatly arranged rustic stand of fifteen 

 varieties of native ferns in a very healthy state ; and from James 

 McTear Desmodiian pendnlcpjlorumy a new hardy shrub. A fine 

 collection of plants came from Walsh Brothers, but no list was 

 handed to the Committee ; from the same, two good plants of 

 Lomaria gibba; Lapageria alba from J. B. Moore; Cockscomb, 

 from seed obtained in 1873 from the Garden of Gethsemane, out- 



