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For table designs there were five competitors ; that of Mrs. 

 Ward's was very beautiful and received the first premium ; Miss 

 S. W. Story receiving the second, for a very tastily arranged design 

 of choice and handsome flowers. 



Louis Guerineau exhibited a miscellaneous collection of choic^ 

 stove and greenhouse plants ; all of them were good specimens 

 (many rare), and well grown ; also a fine collection of choice fei'ns, 

 and an extra fine collection of Sempervivums, of thirty-six very 

 fine varieties, a splendid single specimen of Euphorbia Caput 

 Mechisce, and a fine plant of Seleginella erythropus, which was 

 awarded a First-Class Certificate of Merit ; this whole collection 

 deserves more notice than can be given at this time, but the least 

 that can be said is, that great credit is due to Mr. Guerineau for 

 the pains he took to make the exhibition interesting. 



Miscellaneous collections of plants were exhibited by Hovey & 

 Co., Wm. Gray, Jr., Jackson Dawson, all of them containing good 

 specimens, and many of them rare and well-grown. 



Henry E. Chitty of Paterson, N. J., exhibited Salvia splendens 

 compacta alba, a white flowering variety of ^S". splendens, possess- 

 ing all the qualities of that species ; it will undoubtedl}^ be a great 

 acquisition ; it was awarded a First-CIass Certificate of Merit ; 

 also, a seedling Pelargonium, named Enchantress, and Coleus cJia- 

 meylon {quadricolor) . 



W. C. Strong & Co. exhibited a very fine collection of choice 

 stove and greenhouse plants, succulent ferns and mosses. The 

 collection embraced over one hundred varieties of stove and green- 

 house plants, agaves, &c., many of them entirely new and never 

 before exhibited ; of ferns and mosses, over seventy varieties, 

 twelve varieties of Coleus, twelve of Caladinus, and over twent}'- 

 four varieties of Geraniums. The most attractive and interesting 

 part of this collection seemed to be the ferns and mosses. There 

 was a splendid specimen of Adiantum Farleyense, the most beau- 

 tiful of the genera, the largest and best plant that has been exhib- 

 ited, Adiantum coccineum, very neat and pretty ; the peculiar 

 A. trapeziforme and the handsome prionipJiyllum ; of Aspleniums, 

 that of A. Belangerii, is of rare elegance ; A. bidbiferum, a fine 

 and graceful variety ; Blechnum brasiliense, a fine stately fern ; 

 Cheilanthus elegans, a gem of a fern, very delicate and handsome ; 

 Davallia pixidata, a beautiful variety of the haresfoot fern ; Gym- 

 nograma clirysopMla, the well-known golden fern ; G. tartarica, a 



