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did orchid from Brazil ; the color being of a delicate rose, the lip 

 having a rich purple spot in the centre ; also, three very fine Pliloxes 

 named Major Stewart, Mirabilis, and Mons. Belloux. From 

 Hovey & Co., the beautiful Euchdris Amazonica ; from J. S. Rich- 

 ards, Herbert Gleason, and A. McLaren, handsome Seedling Glad- 

 ioli ; a handsome dish of rare flowers from Mrs. T. W. Ward, and 

 Adiantum offiue, A. uStlthiopicum, and Camptostorus rldzophyllus^ 

 from John Robinson, 



There were also fine collections of Native Flowers, from E. H. 

 Hitcbings and Mrs. Horner. In the first named collection we 

 noticed four varieties of Lobelia: L. cardinalis, L. cardinalis var. 

 rosea, L. cardinalis var. hicolor^ L. cardinalis var. alba, Goodyera 

 piibescens, Ostrya Virginica, Prunus Pennsyl, anica, Xyris bul- 

 bosa. 



August 16. 



The best collections of Petunias that have been exhibited for some 

 time w^ere shown to-day by E. W. Wood and Hovey & Co., each 

 of which contained double and single flowers of unusual excellence, 

 many of them being finely striped. The baskets of flowers 

 maintained their usual high position, the contributors being Mrs. 

 Wood and Miss Story ; and good stands of cut flowers came from 

 C. H B. Breck, A. McLaren, and James Nugent, and A'ery hand- 

 somel}' arranged dishes of rare flowers from Mrs. Joj'ce and Mrs. 

 T. W. Ward. This being prize day for Native Ferns, very fine 

 collections of rare varieties were exhibited by E. H. Hitcbings and 

 Mrs. C. N. S. Horner ; the collection of Mr. Hitcbings contained 

 forty varieties, and as they were of so much interest to all, a com- 

 plete list is appended : — 



Adiantum pedatum (maiden hair), Aspidium Thebjpteris, 

 Aspidium acrostichoides, Asplenium angustifolium, 



" cristatum, " ebeneum, 



" Goldiamim, " Fihx-fcemina, 



" marginale, " " var. acuminata, 



" JSfoveboracensey " TricJiomanes, 



*' spinulosum Botrychium ternatxim 



var. Boottii^ var. dissectum, 



" " " dilatatum, " it. a lunarioides, 



" " " dumetorum, " " " ohliquumy 



" " " intermedium, " Virginicum, 



