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These were shown by Thos. W. Head, gardener to Morton F. 

 Plant of Groton, Connecticut. The same exliibitor also took the 

 prize for the six best novelties of the year 1908, as follows: 



J. C. Xeil, light yellow Incurved. 

 Dorothy Goldsmith, fluffy yellow Japanese. 

 Mary Donnellan deep-yellow Incurved. 

 Harold Wells, white Japanese. 

 Touring Club, chrome-yellow Incurved. 

 W. H. Moir, white Incurved. 



The prize for six vases of ten long-stemmed blooms — Josiah 

 Bradlee fund — went to W. S. & J. T. Spaulding, as follows: 



Miriam Hankey, pink Incurved. 



Mrs. Eaton, white Incurved. 



INIrs. H. A. Allen, bronzy. 



Mrs. Wm. Duckham, yellow. 



Dr. Enguehard, pink. 



Souvenir de Pire, light pink Japanese. 



The Henry A. Gane Memorial Prize of .^20.00 went to James 

 Nicol of Quincy for a splendid vase of Mrs. Jerome Jones. 



The varieties which won in the competition for the Society's 

 prize for ten long-stemmed blooms in colors were: — 



Pink, Dr. Enguehard. 

 White, Merza. 



Yellow, ]\Irs. AVm. Duckham. 

 Red, Mrs. H. Partridge. 

 Bronzy, Mrs. J. E. Dunne. 



The Class for Incurved (Chinese) was not filled and since we are 

 devoting so much attention to the Singles it seems a pity they are 

 forgotten. 



The class for twenty-five commercial plants should have been 

 better filled. There was only one competition and the prize 

 amply paid for the plants. 



The classes for Singles were well filled. Still the plants might 

 have been better finished, as some exhibited for the grand prize 

 showed they could have been. These Singles are handsome 

 when cut at a certain stage and some make good pot plants, but 



