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varieties composed the collection of Mr. McTear: Li ervalii, Mon- 

 sieur Veitch, Madame Marseaux, Souvenir de Soultzmatt, William 

 Schule, William Bull, Julia Russell, Enfant Prodigue, carnosa. 

 Napoleon III. 



The silver medal was awarded to A. McLaren for a fine seed" 

 ling riilox, spike strong, flowers large, with a white ground, and a 

 very distinct carmine e^'e ; it is a good addition to the list of so 

 man}' good kinds. A fine specimen of Crinuvi aviabile, a bulbous 

 plant of great beauty, with flowers of a dark rose, and very fra- 

 grant, was exhibited bj' H. F. Durant ; and a nice specimen of 

 Peristeria elata, the Dove plant, from Panama, by Edward S. Rand, 

 Jr. Very interesting collections of native flowers were exhibited 

 bj'- Miss M. E. Carter, E. H. Hitchings, and Mrs. Horner. In the 

 collection of Miss Carter was a plant of Lobelia Dorlmanni, the 

 water Lobelia, a very singular aquatic plant, which has never been 

 exhibited before. Prominent in Mr. Hitchings's collection were 

 verj' fine plants of Limnanlhemum lacunosnvi (Floating Heart), 

 CMmaphila maadata (Striped wintergreen), in flower, Ihihenana 

 lacera (Ragged Orchis), //. p.vjchodes (small Purple Fringed Or- 

 chis), and Monotropa uniflura (Indian Pipe). The largest collec- 

 tion was from Mrs. Horner, and contained splendid flowers of 

 Saggitaria variabilis, Lobelia cardinalis, Asclepias tuhero^ia, Ponte- 

 deria, etc. ; and a very fine specimen of Lygodinm pahnatum (the 

 native climbing, fern) was shown by Miss M. K Carter. Among 

 miscellaneous collections, fine flowers of Aqnihyia ^kinnen, one 

 of the very best, and a new variety, and of IJemerocallis fi. jjL 

 Kwanso, came from Francis Parkman ; a small plant of Catdeya 

 Lodigesii, a native of Brazil, and one of the best^ from Hovey 

 & Co. ; four splendid spikes of Lilium auperbum from E. S. Rand, 

 Jr. ; Echiuopsis sp., from San Diego, Cal , by Mrs. J. L Fair- 

 banks ; Lilium rvbnim from "William Cairns, and Ip itnaia mulabdis 

 from Jackson Dawson. 



August 9. 



This being prize day for Balsams, there were several contribu- 

 tions of very good flowers ; most noticeable were the very fine spikes 

 from J. B. Moore and George N. Noyes. E. S. Rand, Jr., exhib- 

 ited the beautiful Oncidium Papilio, from Trinidad ; the flowers 

 are the shape of a butterfly, the color a dark, rich brown, barred 

 with yellow, with bi ight yellow in the centre, and edged with dark 

 brown. From W. C. Strong, we had Cattleya iniermt'dia, a splen- 



