REPORT 



COMMITTEE ON PLANTS, 



FOR THE YEAR 1895. 



By AZELL C. BOWDITCH, Chairman. 



Auotber year has passed over our heads, but we can hardly 

 congratulate ourselves upon any very marked improvement in our 

 exhibitions, with the exception of Orchids and Chrysanthemums, 

 both of which were very fine and showed much improvement over 

 former years. The absence of some of our larger growers of 

 greenhouse plants was quite marked, and that very interesting 

 class of trees, the Conifers, which are not only ornamental but 

 instructive, was sadly missed the past season. But every 

 Saturday, from early in the year to its close, has brought enough 

 to please the eye and foster the ever-growing interest of both the 

 amateurs and the public. The love of plants is ever on the 

 increase and it will be the aim of your Committee, in the future as 

 in the past, to encourage it by awarding the most liberal prizes 

 offered by the Society, in as judicious and impartial a manner as 

 possible. 



The first exhibit for prize was on February 12, for Chinese 

 Primroses, for which there were two competitors, John L. Gardner 

 and Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney. 



Nathaniel T. Kidder showed a fine plant of Acacia heterophylla. 



January 26, from the Botanic Garden of Harvard University 

 came a fine plant of Angrcecum sesquipedale, with seven spikes, 

 having sixteen blooms. 



