FLOWER committee's REPORT. 25 



The first prizes for the specimen bloom, the best eighteen blooms, and the 

 best six blooms, were awarded to Hovey & Co. 



The second prizes for the best eighteen blooms, the first prize for the best 

 twelve blooms, and the second prize for the best six blooms, were awarded to 

 Edward Flynn of Lawrence. 



The Annual Exhibition was this year held in the Society's Hall, and was 

 opened to the public on Tuesday, September 16th, at 8 o'clock. The floral 

 display was unusually fine, and the flowers never appeared to greater ad- 

 vantage. 



Of pot plants the display was small, but a better collection has never before 

 been exhibited. The finest collection wrs that of Edward S. Rand, composed 

 of rare stove foliaged plants; the next that of Ilovey &. Co., containing many 

 good varieties: the next that of Martin Trautman. 



The single specimens were remarkably fine. The prizes were awarded, 

 first to Edward S. Rand for Cattleya Forbesii, a splendid specimen in fine 

 bloom ; second to Ilovey & Co. for Peristeria alata, a large plant with two 

 flowers; third to Edward S. Rand for Rhopala glaucophylla ; fourth to Edward 

 S. Rand for Aralia reticulata. 



The specimen variegated plants were well grown and generally choice. 

 There was in this class more competition. The prizes were awarded, first to 

 Edward S. Rand for Pavetta Bourbon ica, a beautiful specimen of this fine 

 plant; second to Hovey & Co. for Pandanus Javanicns variegatus, a superb 

 specimen; third to Martin Trautman for a well grown and highly colored 

 speciiiien of Begonia Rex; fourth to James Nugent for a fine plant of Hydrangea 

 Japonica variegata. 



There was a fine display of Begonias. The plants were large, well grown, 

 of high color, and marked varieties. 



There were four collections presented for premium. The first prize was 

 awarded to Edward S. Rand for Grandis, Duchesse de Brabant, Lord Clyde, 

 Griffithii, Makoy's Victoria, and Funkii ; the second to Hovey & Co. for Mar- 

 shallii, Roi Leopold, Nivosa, Marginiata, Miranda, and Duchess de Brabant. 



The display of Ferns and Lycopodia was better than ever before. There 

 were many competitors. The prizes were awarded to Hovey & Co. for Lyco- 

 podium cuspidatum, Polypodium aureum, Pteris tricolor, Gymnagramma Pe- 

 ruviana, Adiantum cuneatum, Goniophlebium appendiculatum; second to 

 G. G. Hubbard (names not furnished); third to Martin Trautman for Adiantum 

 cuneatum, Lycopodiuin dcnsum, Gynmogramma sulphurea, Dicksonia tenera, 

 Doodia rupestris, Lycopodium VVilldenovi; fourth to James McTear (names 

 not given). 



Bouquets of all kinds were never poorer, and few were worthy of premium. 

 The prizes were,- however, awarded. A great improvement was introduced in 

 the exclusion, by special vote of the Society, of the large bouquets from the 

 hall; these were always monstrosities of ugliness, and the Committee trust the 

 Society will never again ofier prizes for their construction. 



