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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



GEORGE PUTNAM SCHOOL GARDEN, ROXBURY. 



The plants uamed below, numberiDg thirty species, were for the 

 most part put into the garden during the warm season of 1895 : 



Sjiifanthes cernua. 

 Goodyera puhescens. 

 Clintonia borealis. 

 Cypripedium acaxde. 

 Iris versicolor. 



" Pseudacorus. 

 Maiantheniuyn Canadense. 

 Moneses grandijlora. 

 Pyrola elliptica. 

 " secunda. 

 Chiogenes serpyllifolia. 

 Solidago arguta. 

 Aster paniculatus. 

 Anaplialis margaritacea. 

 Gnaphalium polycephalum. 



Achillea millefolium var. roseus. 

 Potentilla Norvegica. 



" sp. 

 Cornus Canadensis. 

 Medeola Virginiana. 

 Oxalis Acetosella. 

 Viola rotundifolia. 

 Linncea borealis. 

 Aralia trifolia. 

 Asarum Canadense. 

 Thalictrum purpurascens. 

 Hedeoma pulegioides. 

 Parnassia Caroliniana. 

 Woodwardia Virginica. 



" angiisti folia. 



Some cultivated plants have been added, and half a gross of 

 hyacinth and tulip bulbs were planted in October; but the 

 stress of the work done has been in furnishing ample means for 

 studying wild plants as they grow. 



The pupils of the first class have studied fifteen species of 

 ferns by means of pressed specimens, specimens brought in for 

 the lesson, lantern slides of three kinds, — first of the reproductive 

 organs, second, of pressed specimens, third, of growing clumps 

 in their native habitats, — and lastly by observing all the species 

 growing in the school garden. They have studied them about six 

 weeks, have drawn and studied all the minute parts, spores, 

 sporangia, indusia, sori, pinnules, piuufe, rachis, stipe, general 

 shapes, textures, and relative positions of parts. Most of the 

 drawing has been done on tiie board off-hand on call. Every 

 pupil made a sheet of drawings of such characteristic parts as he 

 chose ; some of the drawings were colored, and the best were put 



