8 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Pelargonium from Madame Vaucher, and Princess Alice ; a Zonale, color very 

 light rose, centre shading out pure white, requires further trial. 

 Saturday, April 15. 



From R. McCleary Copeland, Boston : H3 acinths, twelve single and one 

 double spikes, very fine blooms from old bulbs. 



From William Wales : Seedling Carnations and Picotees, good. 



From J. W. Foster: Seedling Verbena, foliage large, flowers fragrant, color 

 rosy carmine. 



Saturday, April 29. 



From John A. Kenrick, Newton : three flowers of Magnolia conspicua ; also 

 fourteen of Soulangeana, which made a fine show, and were much admired. 



From R. M'Cleary Copeland, Boston : Six double and seven single spikes of 

 Hyacinths, not equal to the display of the previous Saturday. 

 Saturday, May 6. 



From John A. Kenrick: Very fine specimens of double flowering Cherry 

 (Cerasus fl. pi.) ; also blossoms of Magnolia Soulangeana, and others of a 

 Magnolia for a name, evidently a hybrid of the Soulangeana with something 

 else. 



From J. M. Merrick, Jr., Walpole : a fine display of Corydalis glauca, a 

 native plant. 



From William Wales : twelve Carnation and Picotee seedlings. 

 Saturday, May 20. 



From Walker &- Co. of Roxbury : two fine stands of Tulips, containing sixty- 

 tliree blooms. 



Opening of the Hall, Saturday, May 27. 



From James McTear: fifty varieties of Herbaceous Plants, and cut flowers 

 in variety; also a fine plant of variegated Petunia, and Verbena, the Banner. 



From John A. Kenrick : a fine spike of double flowering Horse Chesnut, 

 Azaleas, Hawthorns, Magnolias, Spirseas, &c. 



From F. Parkman, Jamaica Plain : a fine plane of Benthamia variegata from 

 Japan, allied to the cornuses, (entirely new) ; also a large plant of Lonicera 

 brachypoda reticulata. A collection of hardy plants. Rhododendrons, Azaleas 

 Shrubs, Herbaceous plants, Roses, &c. 



Hovey & Co: a collection of Greenhouse plants, do. Azaleas, Pelargoniums, 

 Fancies, and not Fancies — Heaths, &.c. Also, a fine display of Cut Flowers and 

 seventy-six varieties of spring Herbaceous plants, amongst which were Verbena 

 montana, Cerastium tomeritosum, Aquilegia glandulosa, speciosa, Pyrethrum 

 rubrum pleno, rubrum, Tradescantia Pilosa, Convallaria latifolia, Armeria 

 formosa alba, Saxifraga umbellata. 



From Jonathan French, Roxbury: Rhyncospermum jasminoides, Dracaena 

 terminalis, Croton noblesse, Aspidistra lurida. Gloxinia fulgens, Vinca rosea, 

 Allaraanda neriifolia. Begonia Victoria, Euphorbia splendens, Caladium Bel- 

 lej-meii, Pitcairnia species, Gymnogramma sulphurea. 



From H. H. Hunnewell, Wellesley: six pots of Pelargoniums, (not fancies,) 

 finely grown ; also ten pots of Fuchsias, splendid plants ; cut specimens of 



