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connection with the strictly horticultural exhibitions. For that 

 reason your Committee deem it wise that special space be granted 

 such native plant exhibits, and would suggest the use of the Upper 

 Hall on all days when they would not interfere with business 

 meetings or other uses. These exhibits have created a great deal 

 of interest and form a very significant feature of the exhibitions 

 to a large portion of the visiting public. Extension in this line 

 would be desirable, and your Committee feel that it would be no 

 more than right that the exhibitors should be given ample space in 

 which to display their collections. "While your Committee, with 

 the addition of a botanical expert to its nuralier, have found less 

 difflcnlty in making awards the past season, still they deem it wise 

 that a Special Committee should be appointed to judge the Native 

 Plant exiiibits. They being of a strictly botanical nature, it would 

 seem that a Committee composed exclusively of botanists would 

 be better able to judge of the comparative rarity and educational 

 value of the exhibits than would a Committee composed chietly of 

 horticulturists. For that reason we would recommend that a 

 Special Committee, working on such lines as do the present Com- 

 mittee ou School Gardens and Children's Herbariums, be appointed 

 with the same powers and privileges, and that a special appro- 

 priation be set aside for their use in awarding such prizes as may 

 be scheduled and such gratuities as they may deem wise. 



Ou January 16 Kenneth Finlavson, gai'dener to Dr. C. G. Weld, 

 made a very creditable exhibition of Hippeastrums. Erlcn Wil- 

 moreana, Streplosolen sj'teciosuni major, S. Jamesonii, Epncris 

 hyacinthi flora, Phalwnopsis Schillericma, and Centropogon Luc>i- 

 anus. On the same day, Hugh Graham, of Philadelphia, Pa., ex- 

 hibited a new Carnation, Victor, for which your Committee 

 awarded Honorable Mention. 



The following Saturday, January 23, H. A. Cook exhibited the 

 new Carnation Nivea, for which a First Class Certificate of Merit 

 was awarded. 



The exhibition of Orchids on February 6 called forth a close 

 competition, and was very creditable to the exhibitors. 



February 20 HemerocaUis aurantiaca major was exhibited l)y 

 Jacob W. IMauning as a new hardy Japanese HemerocaUis or Day 

 Lilv, and received a First Class Certificate of INIerit. 



