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From Miss E. Clark, Woburn, a hundred and twenty-five species and varie- 

 ties of native plants. 



From the botany class in Dean Academy, another interestin;:^ exhibition of 

 native plants. E. H. Hitchings of Boston showed a variety of wild-flowers. 



From M. P. Wilder, thirteen seedling coleuses, which received a silver medal. 



From W. C. Harding, cut-flowers of Allamandci ScJiottii, and new varieties 

 of gloxinias. 



From John Barker, Cambridge, Dioncea muscip7ila, or Venus's Fly-Trap, 



E. S. Rand, jun., beautiful azaleas and rhododendrons, including a plant of 

 R. purptireuin grattdijlorum in full bloom ; also cypripediums. 



From W. Halliday, Boston, two beautiful Wardian cases of plants, which re- 

 ceived the first and second premiums. 



A great variety of cut flowers, bouquets, and baskets, were exhibited by 

 ladies and gentlemen for whose names we have not room. 



George Hill of Arlington exhibited Jenny Linds, which received the first 

 prize for early strawberries. The same variety by W. H. Locke took the second 

 prize.. J. W. Foster received the first, and J. B. Moore the second prize for 

 Wilson's Albany. 



M. H. Simpson, Saxonville, Black Hamburg and White Frontignan Grape, 

 first prize. W. C. Strong showed fine specimens of Hale's Early Peach, also 

 bearing trees in pots. J. B. Moore, Hunt Russet Apples, growth of 1868. Miss 

 S. C. Carter, Wilmington, cranberries, growth of 1868. Joseph Tailhy, Wellino-- 

 ton. King of the Earlies Potatoes. Caleb Bates, Kingston, sweet potatoes, 

 growth of 1868, and Carter's First Crop Peas, out doors. W. C. Strong, Gen. 

 Grant Tomato. W. E. Baker, Wellesley, tomatoes. 



June 19. — Hovey & Co. exhibited a great variety of paeonies, also miscella- 

 neous plants, including the new and beautiful Pyrcthrum roseiun. Among the 

 best paeonies were Grandiflora nova, Victor Pacquet, Louis Parmentier, Festina 

 maxima, Sonaise Delache, Camilla Calot, violacea plena, Faust, Ne Plus Ultra, 

 Comtesse de Morny, Washington, Bossuet, Gen. Bertrand, Prince Troubetsky. 



E. S. Rand, jun., Rhododendron Hannibal, one of the best and hardiest late 

 varieties. James M'Tear, bouquets. George Leland, Watertown, Carter's First 

 Crop Pea. S. C. Cobb presented Jackson White Potatoes grown at Pensacola, 

 Fla., by B. Chandler, in sand with the aid of seaweed alone. Also Sisal Hemp, 

 from plants imported by Dr. Perrine in 1837, grown at Boca Chica by Gov. Henry 

 Geiger. This hemp is the product of several species of agaves and aloes, which 

 grow both wild and cultivated in Yucatan. It now grows on many of the islands 

 of Florida, of a quality superior to that of the parent stock, and requires no cul- 

 tivation. The fibre resembles the so-called Manila Hemp, but is superior to it 



Book-Farming. — We do not hear as many sneers at book-farmers as we 

 used to a few years ago ; yet the idea is still entertained by certain cultivators 

 who delight to call themselves "practical men," tliat a man who reads a horti- 

 cultural or agricultural book is a visionary theorizer, and can be nothing more. 

 We never could quite understand the reasoning by vi^hich the " practical men " 

 prove that he who keeps himself informed of all the improvements in horticul- 



