FLOWER committee's REPORT. 



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The Committee have also awarded the following 



CERTIFICATES OF MERIT. 



To Hovey & Co., for beautiful specimens of Palafoxia Ilookeriana, a new 



annual from Texas. 

 To Hovey &, Co., for fine specimens of the Japan Iris, raised by thera from 



seeds received from Japan. 



When we consider how largely our weekly exhibitions are made up of that 

 portion submitted to our judgment, your Committee are led to ask, if in this 

 department there is that interest felt by our fellow members which will secure 

 the degree of progress demanded by the past history and present importance 

 of this Society. Our avowed object in association is, primarily, to " promote 

 a love for, and promulgate a knowledge of. Horticulture ; " and, however 



