KEPORT 



OF THE 



COMMITTEE ON PLANTS, 



FOR THE YEAR 1894. 



By DAVID ALLAN, Chairman. 



January 20, Mrs. Frederick L. Ames exhibited some handsome 

 hybrid Masdevallias, of which three received First Class Certificates 

 of Merit, namely : Mary Ames, a crimson, tipped red ; Rebecca, 

 a crimson velvet, and Henrietta, purple and yellow. The same 

 exhibitor sent a large plant of the White Lcdia anceps, which 

 was very much admired. 



February 2, Nathaniel T. Kidder, exhibited an exceptionally 

 finely flowered plant of Acacia heteroph.ylla. 



March 3, Dr. C. G. Weld, staged large specimen plants of 

 Cyclamen, which were well flowered. 



. SPRING EXHIBITION. 



March 28, 29, and 30. 



E. W. Gilmore, John L. Gardner, Nathaniel T. Kidder and 

 Edward Butler, made creditable displays of Orchids. In George 

 M. Anderson's exhibit of cyclamens, the flowers were superior to 

 anything ever seen exhibited in our halls. The Lace Plants 

 (^Oiivira)idra fenestralis) were well grown, the best being that 

 shown by John L. Gardner. Rea Brothers made a notable 

 exhibit of Hardy Herbaceous Plants'. 



May 26, Natlianiel T. Kidder made an excellent display of 

 Calceolarias; Rea Brothers brought a new hardy herbaceous 

 plant, uistilbe Chinensis; and F. Sanders & Co., St. Albans, 

 England, a beautiful new bedding plant, iSlrohilanthes Di/erianus, 

 — a foliage plant of elegant colors and marking. 



