36 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



ROSE EXHIBITION. 



June 18, 19. 



C. S. Rargont exhibited a fine collection of Roses in Class 1, and 

 received the first prize ; these were arranged in a box, covered with 

 moss. 



A. McLaren and F. Parkman exliibited in the same class a very 

 fine lot of flowers, and received respectively the second and third 

 premiums. 



Mrs. T. W. Ward and James McTear exhibited in Class 2 very 

 fine flowers, and received the first and second prizes respectively. 



F. Parkman, Jas. McTear and A. McLaren exhibited collections 

 of Moss Roses. 



For tender roses J. McTear and J. Nugent were the only com- 

 petitors. 



In the general displa}- the onl}- stand was from Mrs. T. W. 

 Ward ; it was very handsome and worthy of commendation. 



For the Sargent Premiums, for the best twenty-four named va- 

 rieties of Hybrid Perpetuals of three flowers each, the first pre- 

 mium of SGO was awarded to J. C. Chafiin, and the second of 840 

 to Francis Parkman ; these roses, exhibited in boxes lined with 

 moss, proved not only very attractive, but showed this to be de- 

 cidedly the best yvay of exhibiting the rose ; all the roses that 

 competed were remarkably' good, those of Mr. Chaffin especially so. 



Plants in Pots. II. II. Ilunnewell received the first prize for 

 the best fifteen, as follows: Anthurium Scherzerianum^ Ehyncos- 

 ])ermum. jcifoninoidpft, Cyannphyllum macjnificum^ llhapsis JiabeUi- 

 formis fol. var., Alocaski zebrina, Iledera ccoiariensis aurea rar., 

 Haceu furfuracea, Begonia pellatum^ Begonia nigrum, Pandanus 

 jaranicus fol. var., Croton internqjtnm, IJntcania strida, Ananassa 

 sadva fol. var., Dracaena ferrea and Cocos Bonnettii. 



C. S. Sargent took the second prize, with the following collec- 

 tion : Abdtilon Thomx)konii, Diejfenbachia picia, Gi/nnwstachium 

 argj/roneiira, Maranta zcbrina, Phormium tenax, Dracoena 2)icta, 

 Phoenix farinifera, Pandanas spiralis, Geonoma jmmila, Phoenix 

 recJinata, Aspedistra lurida variegafa, Arancaria excclf<a, Gymnos- 

 lachiion Verschaffdtii, Cocos campestris, ]\indanus rejlexus. 



Also, for the best specimen plant, the first premium, for a fine 

 plant of l*hornxium tenax variegatiun. 



