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The F. L. Ames Estate was awarded a First Class Certificate for 

 Milfonia Bleuana virginalis, and W. X. Craig a Cultural Certificate 

 for well-grown plants of Phalsenopsis. 



The Spring Exhibition, jNIarch 25-26, was of unusual excellence; 

 the exhibit of the American Rose Society, which held its annual 

 meeting and exhibition in connection with it, contributing much to 

 its success. 



The display of forced Rambler roses in pots and tubs probably 

 has never been equalled. There were about sixty plants, principally 

 from ]M. H. Walsh of Woods Hole, and were nearly all seedlings 

 of his own raising, including the varieties Juniata, Wedding Bells, 

 La Fiamma, Debutante, Sweetheart, Gaiety, Lady Gay, Delight, 

 Hiawatha, Minnehaha, and Babette. 



The same exhibitor also made a fine display of forced Hybrid 

 Perpetuals in pots in an attempt to revive the old-time interest in 

 these roses. This collection included among many other kinds 

 several ])lants of the beautiful ncAv white hybrid perpetual rose 

 Frau Karl Druschki and about twenty plants of his fine seedling 

 Urania. Also an unnamed double white seedling which was 

 awarded Honorable Mention. 



Four new carnations were awarded Honorable Mention: Car- 

 dinal, exhibited by the Chicago Carnation Co., a fine cardinal-red 

 color; John E. Haines, a promising scarlet variety exhibited by 

 John E. Haines and grown by H. Weber & Son, Oakland Mary- 

 land; Fred Burki, a promising white variety exhibited by John 

 Murchie; and Glendale, a white variegated variety, shown by W. 

 J. & M. S. Vesey, Fort Wayne, Ind. 



Special awards made for orchids were Honorable iSIention to 

 Lager & Hurrell for Cypripedium gkiucophyUum, a new species 

 from Borneo, with upper sepal green, edged with white, side petals 

 mostly brown and white with hairy edges, and the lip mostly deep 

 rose marked with white near the center; to Morton F. Plant a 

 First Class Certificate for Phaloenopsis amabilis Rimesiadtiana, a 

 beautiful pure white form with lip marked with yellow, and fully 

 twice the size of any other white Phala?nopsis ; to Julius Roehrs Co., 

 who exhibited a very fine specimen plant of Cymbidium Lowianum 

 for which they were awarded a Cultural Certificate; and to E. O. 

 Orpet a Silver Medal for a seedling Cattleya, C. X Olivia, the 



