56 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Saturday in June, there was no competition for the prizes for show 

 and fancy Pelargoniums. It would seem from the large number 

 that are cultivated, and the liberal premiums offered, that the 

 stands should be well filled. In former seasons there has been a 

 spirited competition for this prize, and we trust that there will be 

 in the future. The only specimens exhibited were from J. B. 

 Moore, who showed six small plants of new and fine varieties. 



Spring Herbaceous Plants. — Good collections were shown by 

 E. S. Rand, Jr. and James McTear, but no list of either collection 

 being received we are unable to give the names of any. 



Tulips. — The only exhibitor was C. M. Atkinson, who showed 

 ten fine named flowers. 



Tree Peonies were shown by Marshall P. Wilder and Hovey 

 & Co., from whose unrivalled collections fine varieties always come. 



Hardt Shrubs. — Good collections were exhibited by James 

 Cruickshanks, James McTear, and Miss S. W. Story. Nothing 

 new or specially remarkable was shown, but there was a good 

 variety, proving that the cultivation of hardy shrubs is receiving 

 a liberal share of attention. 



Rhododendrons. — On the 3d of April H. H. Hunnewell. ex- 

 hibited two superb specimen plants, in pots, of Prince Eugene and 

 Rollissonii. They were about three feet high, with very fine heads 

 and full of bloom, the trusses of flowers being very large. At 

 the pelargonium show the same gentleman exhibited plants of 

 three magnificent Himalayan species-:— Da//iOMSice, formosum mag- 

 nificum, and Sesterianum. 



On account of the lateness of the season the award of prizes 

 for hardy rhododendrons was postponed one week, to June 12. 

 H H. Hunnewell offered three boxes of choice varieties from his 

 splendid collection, for the Society's prize. E. S. Rand, Jr., 

 exhibited the following named twelve varieties, all of which are 

 hardy, with perhaps the exception of Lady Armstrong. 



Album Grandiflorum, Grandiflorum, 



Aureum, Hannibal, 



Bicolor, Lady Armstrong, 



Coelestinum Grandiflorum, Lee's Purple, 



Everestianum, Purpureum Grandiflorum, 



Gloriosum, Roseura Elegans. 



For the Hunnewell Special Prizes, E. S. Rand, Jr., was the 



