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lection of well flowered bulbs. CM. Hovey won the Silver Gilt 

 Medal and the Silver Medal, as second and third prizes, for 

 collections of fifty pots. 



The names of the bulbs in the collection taking the Gold Medal 

 are as follows : 



Agnes, bright carmine. Josephine, brilliant red. 



Argus, dark blue, white eye. La Grandesse, white. 



Baron Von Tu3'll, deep purple. Laurens Koster,double,dark blue. 



Blanchard, white. Lord Derby, rich red. 



Blondin, porcelain blue. Lord Wellington, pale pink. 



Bouquet Tendre, delicate rose. Louis Philippe, double, light blue. 



Canning, deep porcelain blue. Mad. Zoutman, double, deep pink. 



Charles Dickens, soft rose. Mrs. BeecherStowe, rich rosy red. 



Circe, very dark red. Norma, waxy pink. 



Cissa, sky blue. Paix de I'Europe, white. 



Cosmos, deep rose. Pelissier, very dark red. 



Czar Peter, porcelain lilac. Pieneman, deep rich blue. 

 Fabiola, pink, carmine striped. Queen Victoria, white. 



Garrick, double, blue. Seraphine, very delicate pink. 



General Pelissier, light blue. Veronica, carmine red. 



Gertrude, rosy pink. Vesta, white. 



Ida, fine yellow. Von Schiller, deep crimson 



striped. 



N. T. Kidder carried off the Society's first prize for twelve 

 pots of Hyacinths ; C. H. Hovey the second ; and CM. Hovey 

 the third. N. T. Kidder took the first prize for six pots of Hya- 

 cinths ; Edwin Fewkes the second, and C M. Hovey the third. 

 CM. Hovey took the first prize for three pots of Hyacinths ; 

 N. T. Kidder the second, and C H. Hovey the third. CM. 

 Hovey took the first prize for one Hyacinth, and C H. 

 Hovey the second. N. T. Kidder took the first and second 

 prizes for a pan of ten Hyacinths, and C M. Hove^^ the third. 



Tulips, in pots, were shown in great profusion by CM. Hovey, N. 

 T.' Kidder, and C H. Hovey. The show of Narcissus, Daffodils, and 

 Jonquils, by C M. Hovey, was superb, and the general display of 

 spring bulbs by him was grand in the extreme. Lilies of the Val- 

 ley, in pots, very fully flowered and very fragrant, were exhibited 

 by Jackson Dawson, E. L. Beard, and C M. Hovey, and Ane- 

 mones by Jackson Dawson. 



