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John Gardiner & Co., Philadelphia. 

 American Garden, New York. 

 BowKER Fertilizer Co., Boston. 

 George Johnson & Co., Boston. 



Another feature which we must not omit to mention was the 

 delightful music, afternoon and evening, by the Gerraania orches- 

 tra. This was a charming and appropriate accompaniment to the 

 exhibition, and greatly increased the enjoyment of visitors. 



George A. Nickersou brought in the best colored and finest 

 Croton — Queen Victoria — ever seen in our halls, and he was 

 awarded the Society's Silver Medal. Mrs. J. Lasell sent a splendid 

 new Alocasia which was brought into this couutrj' from the 

 Malayan Archipelago in the ^-ear 1884 by David Allan, and she 

 was awarded a Silver Medal. W. R. Smith, of the Botanic 

 Garden at Washington, D.C., brought a very large collection of 

 Carnivorous Plants, which were wonderfully curious and interest- 

 ing, and he was awarded the Society's Silver IMedal. Robert 

 Cameron, of the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, brought in a large 

 collection of Cacti of most peculiar formation, and he also received 

 the Society's Silver Medal. 



In fact, we might go on indefinitely enumerating the wonderful, 

 the curious, and the beautiful productions of nature which were 

 staged in Music Hall, but even then we should convey no adequate 

 idea of the floral loveliness revealed at this exhibition, unless the 

 reader had seen it. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM EXHIBITION. 



November 11, 12, 13, and 14. 



The grand final exhibition of the floral productions of the year 

 is the Chrysanthemum Show, and this year gave us very marked 

 improvement in the size, style, and finish of the blooms. A new 

 enemy has appeared in the shape of a small beetle, which commits 

 such depredations on plants in the open ground that it is almost 

 impossible to protect them from total denudation of flower-buds. , 

 Plants grown all summer in the house, where sulphur and tobacco 

 are used, come into flower as usual. But not every one has the 

 space indoors to accomplish this, therefore our exhibition did 

 not secure an over-abundance of plants, yet those we did have were 



