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Hovey & Co., an elegant vase of twenty-five varieties of Tea 

 Roses, containing many choice kinds, and a magnificent show of 

 Seedling Camellias ; most noticeable of which were splendid blooms 

 of C. M. Hovey and Mrs. Anna Maria Hovey ; also, a small plant 

 of Cattleya Skinner ii; the blossoms are of a rosy pink. This is 

 one of the finest species of Cattleya, the colors being distinct and 

 good. 



Choice cut flowers were shown by J. B, Moore, Mrs. Wood, and 

 Mrs. Joyce. 



March 29. 



A splendid plant of Dendrobium chrysotoxum superbum was 

 shown by Edward S. Rand, Jr., an upright-growing evergreen 

 species from India, producing its pale yellow flowers on a spike 

 from the top of the bulb, and valuable as a winter-flowering 

 variety. Tlie specimen shown was grown upon a block of cork. 



Jackson Dawson exhibited Rubus viUosus Jl. pL, the flower of 

 which resembles double white roses. 



J. Warren Merrill exhibited nine pots of Cineraria. They were 

 fine specimens of this useful winter-blooming plant ; there was a 

 good variety of color ; and they were very showy. 



Calocliortus elegans and C. pulchellus were shown by Louis Gueri- 

 neau. This is a splendid genus of bulbous plants from California. 

 W. C. Strong exhibited handsome plant of AMble japonica. 



April 5, 



Fine-cut specimens of Acacia pttbescens and longiflora; also, 

 Lapegeria rosea, were shown by Mrs. T. W. Ward. 



A seedling Tricolor Geranium, which has been named H. H. 

 Hunnewell, was exhibited by Joseph Tailby. It is one of the best 

 that has been shown. The zone being very fine, and the colors 

 distinct. 



Louis Guerineau showed Milla capitata var paucifiora, a bulbous 

 plant from California. A splendid specimen plant of Chorizema 

 varium was exhibited by C. M. Atkinson. This is one of the 

 prettiest genera of plants from New Holland, and is well worthy of 

 a place in any collection ; also, Callistemon rigidum, a good speci- 

 men plant ; and, Franciscea calycina major, a fine plant. 



Waldo O. Ross, a good specimen of Sempervivwri philoides. 



Edward S. Rand, Jr., exhibited Trichopilia tortilis, one of a 

 small genus of Orchids, from Mexico. This is one of the prettiest 



