EEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANTS AND 

 FLOWERS FOR THE YEAR 1908. 



BY T. D. HATFIELD, CHAIRMAN. 



The number of awards made during the year by the Committee 

 on Plants and Flowers was 574 and the number of exliibitors 120, 

 a considerable reduction from the previous year. 



The exliibition of January 25 was a good one for the season. 

 Backer & Co. of Billerica showed carnation Sunrise, a promising 

 yellow-flowered variety; Mrs. Frederick Ayer of Newton High- 

 lands, George Page, gardener, two handsome plants of Erica 

 melanthera; and Thomas Watt, gardener to Mrs. H. F. Durant of 

 Wellesley, a pretty basket-plant, Schizocentron elegans, with round- 

 ish, purple flowers, of which Honorable Mention was made. It 

 belongs to the family Melastomaceae. Mr. Watt also exhibited 

 some handsome plants of Calceolaria fuchsiaefolia, a shrubby, 

 yellow-flowered species. William Ritchie, gardener to Mrs. J. M. 

 Sears, showed some splendidly grown plants in bloom of Celsia 

 Arcturus for which a Cultural Certificate was awarded. 



Walter Hunnewell of Wellesley showed the new Corydalis Wil- 

 sonii and was given Honorable Mention. It is an herbaceous plant 

 w^ith glaucous, finely-cut leaves, and long spikes of yellow flowers. 

 It is a native of Western China and its hardiness is in doubt. A 

 Certificate of Merit was given to William Downs, gardener to Mr. 

 Dumaresq of Chestnut Hill, for a magnificent display of Begonia 

 Gloire de Lorraine. 



February 1. W. W. Rawson & Co. of Arlington showed some 

 well-grown plants in bloom of Begonia Gloire de Sceaux with 

 dark bronzy leaves and pink flowers. It is one of the Begonia 

 Socotrana hybrids to which Gloire de Lorraine belongs and was 

 awarded Honorable Mention. 



February 29 Honorable Mention was given to R. & J. Farquhar 

 & Co. for an exhibit of some handsome plants of a Rambler rose 

 named Tausendschon, a pink-flowered variety which promises to 



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