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exhibited good specimens of Delphinium nudicaule. This handsome 

 species is a native of California, and differs from all others now in 

 cultivation. The flowers are produced in loose spikes, each blossom 

 being about an inch in length, and of a fine vermilion scarlet ; the 

 leaves are much smaller than in D. elator, and mostly green, but in 

 many specimens both the leaves and stems have a purplish tinge : 

 it grows about eighteen inches high, and is ])erfectly hardy in this 

 latitude, having borne the severe winter of 1871 uninjured. Also, 

 at same exhibition, C. M. Atkinson showed a handsome seedling 

 carnation, named Lady-Bird ; flowers large, of good shape, and very 

 double ; color white, finely striped and flaked with bright rose. It 

 never splits in the flower ; is very hardy, and a strong grower : 

 altogether it is a very remarkable seedling variety. 



July 15. — Louis Guerineau, gardener to the Botanic Garden, 

 exhibited a plant of the rare Desmodium gyrans : this very curious 

 greenhouse shrub is also known by the name of Telegraph-Plant, 

 from the fact tliat the leaves are constantly in motion, rising and 

 falling. 



Aug. 19. — E. H. Hitchings exhibited s})ecimens of two new 

 varieties of Lobelia cardinalis, found growing wild in the vicin- 

 ity of Boston ; one having flowers nearly clear white, and the 

 other of a good clear rose-color. Both, though not as showy as 

 the original variety, will be well worth cultivating, when they 

 will, no doubt, be much improved both in size and color of 

 flowers. 



Sept. 2. — George Everett showed good specimens of the new 

 Lilium tigrinum fl. pleno. This fine lily is of recent introduction 

 from Japan ; grows from three to four feet in height, with very 

 double orange-red flowers, spotted with black ; is perfectly hardy, 

 and as easily cultivated as the single variety. 



Sept. 20. — C. S, Sargent showed a plant of Phormium tenax 

 folia variegata, a new variety of the original species, with hand- 

 some variegated foliage ; was awarded the first premium at the 

 Annual Exhibition, 1871, as the best new pot plant. 

 ■ During the year, the following exhibitions have been made which 

 we consider worthy of mention. The first contributions occurred 



January 7. 



J. H. Woodford exhibited a good plant, in bloom, of Ferraria 

 undulata. 



Mrs. S. Joyce, large plant of Albuca viscosa, with white flowers 

 resembling an Ornithogalum. 



