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can Florists would hold their annual convention in this city, and 

 that our Society had tendered to them the use of our halls for that 

 purpose. AVe had also arranged to hold our Annual Exhibition of 

 Plants and Flowers during the same week as the Convention. 



To enable us to do so with credit to ourselves, we engaged 

 Music Hall in which to display the wonderful collections of plants 

 and flowers contributed from the private stoves and greenhouses 

 of some of our opulent members. 



The combined collection was the most superb and beautiful of 

 any gathering together of plants ever beheld in this country, and 

 elicited unbounded praise from every visitor and florist present. 



This season the number of contributors has largely increased, 

 and several of our members, who had in late years become weary 

 in well-doing, have returned to their former allegiance, and have 

 contributed from their abundance, so that our shows during the 

 past 3'ear have been complete, and have received the most favor- 

 able mention possible by the public press, and by distinguished 

 visitors from all pai'ts of our own country and from abroad. 



This state of things is very gratifying to your Committee, and 

 it becomes a pleasure under such circumstances to chronicle the 

 events as they have developed themselves during the 3'ear now 

 closing. Therefore we will now specify some of the most notable 

 features of the exhibitions as they occurred. 



On January 4, John L. Gardner showed a fine plant of Cattleya 

 Percivaliana and a Kalanchoe carnea, the latter of which was 

 awai'ded a First Class Certificate of Merit. 



On Januar}' 11 and 18, James Comley showed fine blooms of 

 his rose Francis B. Haj'es, and on January 25, the seedling rose 

 Oakmount. John L. Gardner also showed some fine Orchids. 



February 1, Jackson Dawson showed a cross between the 

 Hybrid Perpetual Rose, Gen. Jacqueminot, and Rosa Japonica 

 multiflora^ giving a miniature rose of a deep pink color, quite full 

 and very fragrant. 



On February 15, James Comley again showed very fine blooms 

 of the seeding rose Oakmount. 



February 22, Norton Brothers showed a new Tea Rose, Lu- ' 

 ciole ; its color, a bright pink and yellow. 



March 1, Jackson Dawson exhibited four seedling Indian 

 Azaleas, of good substance and clear colors ; also a box containing 

 about forty plants of Cypripedimn acaule in full bloom. This 



