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notice that which is best, and instead of giving a detailed report 

 of each exhibition separately we have taken up the different sub- 

 jects by themselves. 



Cyclamens. — The principal exhibitors were James O'Brien and 

 C. B. Gardiner, and the well grown plants shown by these gentlemen 

 were fully equal to those of last season, and showed that no pains 

 had been spared in their cultivation. The plants exhibited on the 

 13th of February, that being prize day, were splendid specimens, 

 with fine, healthy foliage, and a very large number of buds and 

 flowers, which were well up above the foliage, showing the pretty 

 blooms to good advantage, and fully sustaining the well earned 

 reputation of these gentlemen as successful growers of this useful 

 and beautiful plant. 



Camellias. — As in past seasons, Hovey & Co. and Marshall P. 

 Wilder have been the principal exhibitors. March 13th being pre- 

 mium day, a splendid display of twenty-seven named varieties was 

 made by Hovey & Co., besides one of the handsomest baskets that 

 has ever been exhibited, and also twelve fine seedlings. On the 

 30th of January the same gentlemen exhibited splendid flowers of 

 Mrs. Anne Marie Hovey, C. H. Hovey, and Louisa ; and again on 

 the 2d of April a very handsome collection of seedlings, numbered 

 from 1 to 15. The camellias from Hovey & Co. have always been 

 quite a feature of our exhibitions, but your Committee think that 

 the displaj^s of the past season have been the best that have ever 

 adorned our tables ; particularly noticeable have been the magnifi- 

 cent seedlings, embracing nearly every shade of color, some of 

 them very delicately marked. Marshall P. Wilder exhibited on 

 the 30th of January cut flowers of Mrs. Julia Wilder, and on the 

 20th of February cut flowers of Mrs. Abby Wilder, which were 

 exceedingly fine, showing five diff"erent gradations in color, from a 

 pure white to a deep rose. James Comley exhibited a small plant 

 of the new Camellia, Giovanni Santarelli. 



Orchids have been exhibited by E. S. Rand, Jr., James Cart- 

 wright, Hovey & Co., Mrs. Gardner Brewer, and C. T. Hubbard. 

 For Winter Blooming Orchids, March 13th was the prize day, 

 when E. S. Rand, Jr., exhibited the following named species: 



Cypripedium villosnm. — A desirable species from the East 

 Indies. The flowerS have a fine glossy appearance over their 

 whole surface, which is orange red intermixed with light green 

 and dark purple ; it continues a long time in flower. 



