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Denys Zirngiebel for Pinks : La Purit6, white, aud Andalusia, 

 yellow fringed. They had the appearance of being splendid vari- 

 eties and of great promise. 



Gratuities were awarded to S. S. Hovey, E. Sheppard, aud 

 George Seaverns, for cut flowers in variety ; J.B. Moore «feSon for 

 three vases of splendid Hybrid Perpetual Roses; and Mrs. F. B. 

 Hayes for a general display of flowers and plants, among the latter 

 of which was a remarkabl3- large specimen of Cocos WecJdelliana. 

 Gratuities were also awarded to II. H. Huunewell for plants and 

 cut flowers ; F. L. Ames, for orchids and cut flowers ; and David 

 Allan, for ferns, orchids, and cut flowers. 



The display of Dutch Bulbs was the most extensive and the 

 most beautiful ever witnessed in our halls. C. M. Hovey and C. H. 

 Hovey contributed pots of these elegant and show}' flowers by the 

 hundred, and their exhibition alone was a revelation to many of 

 what a feast of beauty can be spread out — and at very little ex- 

 pense or trouble — by any one who is disposed to cultivate these 

 easily grown plants. 



Their method of flowering these plants is as follows : — They 

 procure the bulbs in September or October and pot them in good 

 rich soil, and then bury the pots in a cold frame. The object 

 gained by burying the pots is that when the roots of the bulbs be- 

 gin to grow they will not be forced upward and out of the pots, 

 the weight of earth on top holding the bulbs firmly in place. About 

 a month before the bulbs are wanted in flower, the pots are 

 brought into a moderate greenhouse, where, if they are properly 

 watered and attended to, the}' are sure to produce an al)undance 

 of splendid fragrant flowers. Bulbs are the easiest of all plants 

 to flower well, for the}' are already grown to produce flowers when 

 we buy them. 



The General Union of Holland for the Promotion «f the Culti- 

 vation of Bulbs may well be esteemed a public benefactor, for in 

 its desire to increase the cultivation of bulbs it has furnished, to be 

 offered by our Society, gold and silver medals for hyacinths in 

 bloom. Our friends abroad not only grow the bulbs Ibi' us, but by 

 their munificence stir up a competition for skill in flowering them ; 

 giving us both the benefit of the flowers and the honor of wearing 

 medals which they [)rovi(le. 



At this exhibition C. II. Hovey won the First Prize, a Gold 

 Medal, for fifty pots of Hyacinths ; these l)eing a very superior col- 



