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specimen of Decora, which was fully nine feet high and covered 

 with the most brilliant flowers. Denys Zirngiebel showed a new 

 strain of pansies from Rlons. Bugnot, of France, which for size, 

 color, and substance, surpassed any ever before seen in our Halls. 



F. L. Temple showed some ver}' large plants of Sa'adopitys 

 verticillata or Japan Umbrella Pine, a very promising new orna- 

 mental tree. 



II. H. Hunnewell exhibited thirty-eight varieties of tender 

 Rhododendrons and four varieties of Himalayan species, all of 

 which were very fine. 



RHODODENDRON SHOW. 

 June 9. 



The display was superb, Mrs. F. B. Hayes carrying off the 

 Hunnewell Plate for the best twelve hardy kinds. She also 

 showed some fine seedlings of the hard}' kinds, one of which was 

 named in her honor and entered for the Prosi)ective Prize. In color 

 it is white and rose with a rose-crimson blotch. It has a handsome 

 large truss and bold foliage. Other new plants were noticed, par- 

 ticularly a deep crimson Gloxinia called Comet, shown by John L. 

 Gardner ; Phlox Drnmmondi Star of Quedliuburg, b}- C. W. Hoitt ; 

 Pyrus Juponica Simoni, by T. C. Thurlow ; and four pans of seed- 

 ling Clematis grown by J. H. Woodford, some of whicli were fully 

 as good as the plants from which the seeds were obtained. Robert 

 Manning showed a large vase of Trillium grandijioram^ as culti- 

 vated in his garden, giving larger flowers than when in the wild 

 state. This genus of herbaceous plants comprises some of the 

 most beautiful of our native flowers, and as the}' show such a 

 diversity of color and are so desirable, it is to be hoped that our 

 gardens may receive mora of them. 



On the 16th of June, the display of Rhododendrons was grand 

 in the extreme, Mrs. F. B. Hayes showing over three hundred 

 trusses comprising more than one hundred varieties. 



On the 23rd of June, William H. Spooner showed a large col- 

 lection of cut Roses as a foretaste of what we might expect at the 

 grand Rose Show to take place the next week. 



