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other things a neat lot of tender roses, grown out of doors, among 

 them being Killarney, Kaiserin Augusta, Carohne Testout, Capt. 

 Christy, and Perle des Jardins. 



W. W. Rawson & Co. had some nice Lilium Batemanae. In the 

 display made by the Old Town Nurseries were Uniola latifolia, 

 Lepachys pimiata, Campanula mariesi, Bocconia cordata, Scabiosa 

 caucasica, Hemerocallis Thunhergii, Calimeris incisa, Astilhe 

 Davidii, several phloxes, and Achillea the Pearl. 



Walter Hunnewell showed phloxes Brunnette, Mme. Meuret, 

 Richard Wallace, and Tapis Blanc; also Lilium viyriophyllum, 

 a new lily from China, with stems seven feet tall carrying eight to 

 ten large white flowers. He exhibited also Lilium tigrinum, L. 

 superhum,' Stoke sia cyanea, Authemis tinctoria, Rudbeckia speciosa, 

 Aconitum napellus bicolor, Asclepias tuber osa, Lythrum salicaria 

 roseum, Veronica longifolia subsessilis, and Monarda didyma. 



Exhibition August 21 and 22. 



August 21 was the day for Chinese asters, annuals, phloxes, 

 gladioli, and other seasonable flowers. Honorable Mention was 

 awarded the following: Mrs. Alvin Fuller of Norwood for a display 

 of Hohenzollen aster; R. & J. Farquhar & Co. for a collection of 

 Hybrid Tea and other roses; and B. H. Tracy for gladiolus Faust, 

 a grand new variety of intense cardinal red color. A Silver Medal 

 was awarded ]Mr. Tracy for an artistic display of gladiolus. W. 

 W. Rawson & Co. received a First Class Certificate for three new 

 gladioli: Hohenstaufen, white, suffused with soft pinjv, throat 

 scarlet, edged yellow; Steinhausen, large flowers, salmon red; 

 and Mrs. Frank Pendleton, salmon pink with red blotch, the 

 flowers very large. 



Gratuities were awarded H. M. Pratt, Concord, Old Town 

 Nurseries, and Bellevue Nurseries for displays of herbaceous 

 flowers; to Mrs. J. L. Gardner for annuals; William Whitman for 

 display of phloxes, Chinese asters, and Lilium tigrinum; C. W. 

 Parker for roses; and to T. C. Thurlow & Co. and F. J. Rea for 

 displays of phloxes. 



The Bellevue Nurseries put up an interesting collection of herba- 

 ceous plants and flowers including Rudbeckia fulgida, Veronica 



