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July 24 was Prize Day for Perennial Phlox and Sweet Peas. 

 The latter flower has deservedly come to the front of late, and is 

 being very greatl}' improved. We noticed in M. B. Faxon's dis- 

 play twelve named kinds, some of them very beautifully colored. 

 We look for much more extended cultivation of this very fragrant 

 flower in the immediate future. The display of Hollyhocks was 

 also very fine, particularly the exhibit made by J. F. C. Hyde, for 

 which he was awarded a First Class Certificate of Merit. 



Rare plants exhibited today were a great attraction. F. L. 

 Ames presented Cattleya Gaskelliana with fifty-one gorgeous 

 flowers, and he was awarded the Society's Silver Medal. David 

 Allan showed Grammatophyllum Ellisii, a new orchid from Mad- 

 agascar, and it was awarded a First Class Certificate of Merit. 

 C. M. Hovey showed a yellow Hedychium, Eugenia myrtifolia, 

 and flowers of Stuartia pentagyna. 



Mrs. F. B. Hayes sent a most beautiful new Godetia with white 

 flowers blotched with carmine ; also a Scabious of novel form and 

 color, together with Gloxinias, Achimenes, etc. W. H. Spooner 

 again showed the Stan well Perpetual Scotch Rose. Walter Blanchard 

 showed some very beautiful Double Poppies, pure white edged with 

 carmine. Collections of flowers were also shown by E. Fewkes & 

 Son, Miss E. J. Burbank, W. A. Manda, E. Sheppardand others. 

 The Hj-drangea plants shown b}' J. L. Gardner were very fine, 

 particularly the Otaksa, which occupied the centre of the stage, 

 and presented a grand appearance. Native Plants in large variety 

 were displayed by Mrs. P. D. Richards and E. H. Hitchings. 



July 31. Another full exhibition today and several things of 

 unusual excellence. J. W. Manning showed a large collection of 

 Herbaceous Plants, among which was Lilium sujjerbum, with a 

 stalk ten feet long, surmounted with twenty-one flowers. W. H. 

 Spooner showed the Perpetual Scotch Rose Stanwell, which was 

 in its second blooming of this season. J. F. C. Hyde was 

 awarded a First Class Certificate of Merit for splendid blooms of 

 Double Holl^'hocks. Jackson Dawson brought from the Arnold 

 Arboretum nine species of Hard}' Heaths and seven species of 

 Hypericums. 



Severance Burrage staged a collection of wild flowers, including 

 Lilium Philadelphicum, color reddish chocolate — a very distinct 

 variety, found at Osterville ; and Lygodium palmatum, found in 

 West Newton. W. A. Manda, Mrs. Richards, and Mr. Burrage 



