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Lord Selborue. Oliver Haywood. 



Lord Wolseley. Omer Pacha. 



Blarchioness of Lausdowne. P. H. Waterer. 



Miss Alice de Rothschild. Princess Louise. 



Mrs. F. Hankey. Princess of Wales. 



Mrs. Layard. Purity. 



Mrs. Russell Sturgis. Robert Marnock. 



Mrs. Tom Agnew. Samuel Morley. 



Mrs. Tritton. Sir Richard "Wallace. 



Mrs. Williams. ' The Queen. 



Nero. Victoria. 



Mrs. Ha3'es, E. Sheppard, and C. M. Hovey showed some fine 

 trusses of Azaleas. Tree Paeonies were shown by Hon. Marshall 

 P. Wilder ; German Iris by A. H. Fewkes and J. W. Manning ; 

 Clematis in variety by J. H. Woodford ; Hardy Trees and Shrubs 

 by J. W. Manning ; one hundred bottles of cut flowers, each, by 

 Mrs. A. D. Wood, Mrs. L. P. Weston and Mrs. E. M. Gill ; 

 Native Plants by Mrs. P. D. Richards and E. H. Hitchings. 



A varied collection, and one of unusual excellence was brought 

 from the Botanic Garden by W. A. Manda ; included in it was 

 a large plant of Sarracenia Jlava, well flowered, for which he was 

 awarded a Bronze Medal. W. H. Spooner exhibited the Stanwell 

 Perpetual Scotch Rose, which is hardy, fragrant, and a perpetual 

 bloomer. 



Denys Zirngiebel was awarded a First Class Certificate of 

 Merit for Myosotis Empress ; a new kind, of deep blue color. 



Jackson Dawson brought from the Arnold Arboretum eighteen 

 new seedling Rhododendrons, for which he was awarded a Silver 

 Medal. He also exhibited a very large collection of beautiful 

 new flowering shrubs, all named. 



Sewall Fisher exhibited seven varieties of new seedling Carna- 

 tions possessing good qualities sufficient to warrant the Commit- 

 tee in awarding the Society's Bronze Medal. 



E. L. Beard staged five well bloomed plants of Cattleya MendeUL 

 There were a great many other interesting features in this exhibi- 

 tion, which, coupled with those of the preceding one as noted, 

 have made these days memorable in the history of our Societ}'. 

 They mark many degrees of progress in the cultivation of Hardy 

 Flowerino; Shrubs. 



