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SOCIETY'S GOLD MEDAL. 



June 14. Mrs. Francis B. Hayes, Display of Rhododendrons and Azaleas, 

 five hundred blooms, one hundred varieties. 



SILVER APPLETON MEDALS. 



Chrysanthemum Show, Nov. 11-14. Henry A. Gane, Superior Seedling 



Chrysanthemums. 

 December 31. Jacob W. Manning. Having taken all the First Prizes of the 



year for exhibits of Herbaceous Plants. 



SOCIETY'S SILVER MEDALS. 



May Exhibition, May 10. A. W. Spencer, Orchid, Anguloa Clowesii. 



July 19. Joseph S. Fay, Display of Hollyhocks. 



Annual Exhibition of Plants and Flowers, August 19-22. George A. Nicker- 



son, Croton, Queen Victoria. 

 Annual Exhibition of Plants and Flowers, August 19-22. Robert Cameron, 



Collection of Cacti. 

 Annual Exhibition of Plants and Flowers, August 19-22. George McWil- 



liam, Variegated Alocasias. 

 Annual Exhibition of Plants and Flowers, August 19-22. William R. Smith, 



Washington, D.C., Carnivorous Plants. 

 September 6. Pitcher & Manda, Short Hills, N.J., Cypi'ipedium Arnoldi- 



anum, C. Veitchii, and C. concolor. 

 Chrysanthemum Show, November 11-13. Arthur H. Fewkes, Best Seedling 



Chrysanthemum of 1889. 

 " " " " T. D. Hatfield, Superior cultiva- 



tion of the Chrysanthemum 

 Mrs. Alpheus Hardy. 

 " " " " S. J. Coleman, superior cultiva- 



tion of Chrysanthemums. 

 " " " " E. M. Wood & Co., New Rose, 



AVaban. 

 " " " " Richard Gardner, Newport, R.I., 



New Seedling Calanthe, a 

 cross between C vestita and C. 

 vestita rubro-oculata. 



FIRST CLASS CERTIFICATES OF MERIT. 

 January 4. John L. Gardner, Kalanchoe carnea. 



Spring Exhibition, March 26-28. Jackson Dawson, superior cultivation of 



Cypripedium acaule. 

 " " " " Ernest Asmus, West Hoboken, N.J., New 



Yellow Rose, Mme. Hoste. 

 April 12. Mrs. Francis B. Hayes, Seedling Rhododendron William Power 

 Wilson, entered for Prospective Prize. 



