BouGAlNViLLEAS, ETC. — One of our contemporaries, who does not know of 

 any Bougainvilleas flowering in American liot-houses, might have seen at the 

 exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, on the 4th of March 

 last, no less than three species, viz. :■ spectabilis, spleiidens, and speciosa. They 

 were from the green-houses of Mrs. T. W. Ward, at Canton, Mass., a venerable 

 lady, whose admiration of beautiful flowers is as fresh and enthusiastic as a 

 young girl's, and were grown by her skilful gardener, Joseph Clark. 



We may add here that the choice and rare flowers which Mr. Clark has so 

 often contributed to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society have been the ad- 

 miration of all, not less for their intrinsic beauty than for their tasteful arrange- 

 ment, and well deserve the honorable position given them. Of the last exhibi- 

 tion, on the 29th of July, we can only say that Mr. Clark surpassed himself. 

 Two broad dishes, each with a tall vase in the centre, were filled with the finest 

 gloxinias, roses, stephanotis, allamandas, hoyas, begonias, fuchsias, caladiums, 

 lapagerias, fittonias, etc., the whole set off with the delicate foliage of ferns and 

 lycopodiums. We might go on to fill a page with the names of similar varieties, 

 but will only mention the finely-grown gloxinias exhibited at the annual rose 

 show, of the following varieties : Monsieur Cearcenac, Juliette Vallerand, Charles 

 Raes, Guido Reni, Rose Mutabilis, Claude Lorraine, Couleur de Baker, and 

 Madame Gabriel Brusheroff". Our readers will be glad to know that Mr. Clark 

 has promised us an article on the cultivation of this beautiful flower. 



Bougainvillea spectabilis was also exhibited by Mr. Clark and Mr. F. L. Har- 

 ris, gardener to H. H. Hunnewell, Esq., in the spring of 1870, and has been 

 flowered by Hon. M. P. Wilder. 



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