REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANTS AND 

 FLOWERS FOR THE YEAR 1918. 



By William Anderson, Chairman. 



The shows of the Society the past year with the exception of the 

 March Exhibition were below the average. The high cost of 

 labor and general war conditions and the fact that the Society 

 offered practically no inducements to growers were responsible 

 for this condition. 



On January 30 the Carnation Exhibition was held in conjunction 

 with the Annual Meeting of the American Carnation Society. 

 There were no carnations exliibited under the schedule of the Horti- 

 cultural Society. Dailledouze Brothers, New York, was awarded 

 a Certificate of Merit for rose Ophelia Supreme, Carl Hagen- 

 burger. West Mentor, Ohio, received a Silver Medal for Solarmvi 

 Capsicastrum Orange Queen and a Certificate of Merit for Solarium 

 Capsicastrum Cleveland, a dwarf, red-fruited variety. 



Spring Exhibition. 



The Spring Exhibition which opened March 13 was a success 

 in every way. For harmony of arrangement and quality of 

 material shown it equaled any show held in Boston in recent years. 

 First in importance was the exhibit of acacias from Thomas Roland 

 which included twenty-eight species and filled the Lecture Hall. 

 A Gold Medal was awarded Mr. Roland for his magnificent display. 



Ernest B. Dane had a well arranged group of orchids. It 

 contained many well-grown and valuable plants among which 

 were Odontioda Bradshawiae, Odontoglossum Queen Alexandra, 

 Cypripediums Minos Youngii and Bingleyense, Cattleyas Louis 

 Sander and Rheims, and some fine Laelio-Cattleya hybrids. A 

 Gold Medal was awarded Mr. Dane for his exhibit. 



Albert C. Burrage of Prides Crossing was also awarded a Gold 



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