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cultivation ; among tliem were fine specimens of native azaleas and 

 Castilleia coccinea. C. W. Jenks also had a large collection, num- 

 bering a hundred and thirty species and varieties ; and Miss M. 

 E. Carter, a hundred and five varieties. 



The display of baskets of flowers was large and fine. The con- 

 tributors were Miss S. W. Story, Mrs. S. Joyce, Miss A. C. Wheeler, 

 Mrs. C. Farrier, Miss C. S. Wood, Mrs. C. B. Chase, Mrs. E. M. 

 Gill, and Mrs. Crossett. 



Miss R. \V. Hitchi4igs showed a basket of native flowers, hand- 

 somely arranged. 



Cut flowers were good, and exhibited by eight contributors ; 

 namely, J. S. Richards, James Nugent, George Craft, James McTear, 

 James Comley, Miss A. C. Kenrick, J. Cruickshank, and Francis 

 Parkman. 



June 10. 



Francis Parkman showed an elegant collection of hardy perpet- 

 ual roses, numbering over thirty varieties. 



George Craft, twenty-five varieties of hardy shrubs. 



E. S. Rand, jun., thirty-eight varieties of hardy rliododendrons, 

 named. 



C. S. Sargent, Mrs. T. W. Ward, and Hovey & Co., also had large 

 and fine collections of rhododendrons. 



The Cambridge Botanic Garden exhibited a very interesting 

 collection of hardy Sempervivums, numbering thirty species and va- 

 rieties ; namely. Acuminatum, Albidum, Arachnoideum, Arenarium, 

 Assimile, Barbatulum, Branni, Californicuni, Comolli, Cornutum, 

 Doellianum fimbriatum, glaucum, globiferum, gramlifiorum, hirtum, 

 Juretense, Laygere, Motteuianum, Montanum, Neilrichi, pilosella, 

 pseudo Wulfeni, ruthenicum, Schlehani, soboliferum, stenopetalum, 

 tectorum, tojuentosum, Verloti. 



M. Seaverns, a handsome plant, in bloom, of Echinocactus multi- 

 plex, one of the best of the species for flowering. 



C. A. Wellington, specimens of Ilottonia inflata, a very curious 

 native water-plant, with lace-like foliage. 



