FLOWER COMMITTEE S REPORT. T 



circumstances to make the opening annual Exhibition a success, your Com- 

 mittee feel that too much praise cannot be awarded. 

 Saturday, Janoart 7. 



From Hovey & Co : Helleborus niger, or Christmas Rose, in open culture, 

 dug from under the snow this morning by Mr. J. C. Hovey. The flowers are 

 pure white, with yellow centre, four leaves like an apple bloom. Coccinia 

 Indica, a curious cucumber-like plant, five to six inches long, with stiff 

 prickles ; color, greenish yellow, changing to scarlet. 



From James Comley, Worcester : Acacia ixiophilla from seed, which it 

 grows freely ; a fine kind, flowers in round tufts profusely. 

 Saturday, January 28. 



From George W, Pratt, Boston : A fine spike of Dracsena terminalis ; color, 

 deep lilac in the bud, changing as it opens to nearly white, fragrant and 

 beautiful. This fine ornamental plant is a native of the East Indies, and grows 

 about ten feet high, and is seldom seen in bloom. 



Saturday, February 18. 



From James Nugent, Roxbury : Hippeastrum aubicum, or Princely Horse 

 Star, a fine bulb, and well grown. 



From Curtis & Cobb : Hyacinth Grand Vainquier ; very finely grown in a 

 bottle of sand ; single, pure white, good, except too crowded. 

 Saturday, March 4. 



From J. W. Foster, Dorchester : a seedling Verbena, small truss, of large 

 royal purple pips, a small white eye, foliage good. 



From James McTear, Roxbury: Kennedia eximia (new); a fine ornamental 

 greenhouse climber, with showy red papilionaceous flowers, vigorous and 

 dense ternate foliage. 



Saturday, March 11. 



From James McTear: Acacia ventinoides; very fragrant, blooming from 

 October to May, a valuable variety for cutting. 



Saturday, March 18. 



From Mrs. T. W. Ward, Canton: Bougainvillea, from Brazil, flowered in 

 England, 1848, a new and rare plant. 



From Hovey Sl Co. : Camellia flowers with foliage, viz. Myrtifolia, Fordii, 

 Wilderi, Sarah Prost, Annie Marie Hovey, C. M. Hovey, Glory of America, 

 Gem, Jeffersonii, Candidissima, Landrethiis Cunningham, Mutabilis. 



From James Nugent: Camellias, twelve named varieties. 



From William Wales, Dorchester: a collection of Tea Roses, very fine; 

 Carnation, Astoria, color yellow mottled ; No 4, Seedling, striped and mottled, 

 good form, pretty ; No 1, Picotee, heavily marked, white ground, too much like 

 others in the same class to be of much importance ; Azalea exquisita, trained 

 in tree form, well grown, in full flower, and made a fine show. 

 Saturday, March 25. 



From James McTear: Celine Forrestier, Noisette Rose, color fawn, very 

 fine ; Kennedya longeracemosa, terminate leaves like a Chorizema ; a aeedling 



