208 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mrs. Frederick L. Ames was awarded a First Class Certificate 

 of Merit for Aristolochia Gigas Shirtevantii, a gigantic represen- 

 tative of tlie Dutchman's Pipe family. 



ROSE SHOW. 

 June 20 and 21. 



With the present year the manner of showing the roses was 

 changed throughout the entire exhibition. The old wooden boxes 

 were discarded and all flowers were shown in vases, to the manifest 

 improvement in the appearance of the hall. 



The present season was a very trying one for the rose ; the 

 unseasonably warm weather in April and the dry weather in May 

 did them great harm and materially injured the exhibition as a 

 whole. It was claimed by some that the deficiencies in the 

 exhibits were occasioned by the change in the Schedule whereby 

 all duplicates were prohibited in the different classes when 

 competed for by one individual. This may have made some 

 difference in the general display but when it is considered that 

 there was but one less award made the present year to competitors 

 in the various classes than there was last year it seems unjust to 

 attribute all the injury to that cause. 



As has been the rule for several years past the best roses came 

 from the South Shore, principally from Hon. Joseph S. Fay of 

 Wood's HoU. J. Eaton, Jr., of New Bedford, also contributed 

 many fine blooms. In the class for the best single bloom of any 

 variety, Hon. J. S. Fay took all the prizes with the following 

 varieties in the order named, viz : Earl of Dufferin, Princess 

 Rodocanachi, and Margaret Dickson. The first prize for a 

 single bloom of any variety inti'oduced since 1892, was awarded 

 to J. Eaton, Jr., for Marchioness of Londonderry and the second 

 to W. W. Astor, of Newport, R. I., for the same variety. 



There were many interesting miscellaneous collections, the 

 Herbaceous Plants being most prominent. 



Charles J. Dawson brought from the Bussey Institution, fine 

 flowers of the rare Ostroivskf/a magnijica., a very difficult plant to 

 grow. 



James Comley was awarded a PMrst Class Certificate of Merit 

 for a seedling Rhododendron maximum, with white flowers 

 blotched with yellow. 



