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result of a cross between C. infennedia and C. triance. It is a beau- 

 tiful flower with pure white sepals and petals, bright crimson lip,, 

 and white throat. 



Other exhibitors receiving special awards were F. R. Pierson Co., 

 who received a First Class Certificate for the new rose. Mad. Xor- 

 bert Levavasseur, the so-called Baby Rambler, a plant with flowers 

 resembling very closely the old Crimson Rambler, but of a dwarf 

 bushy form and of an exceedingly free-flowering habit. 



Wm. Sim, Honorable Mention for new sweet pea, Earliest Sun- 

 beam, a pale yellow variety mostly valuable for its earliness. 



Julius Roehrs, Honorable Mention for Ficus Camwnii, a species 

 belonging to the same class as Ficus Parcelli but with deep purple 

 foliage. 



Henry H. Barrows and Son, a First Class Certificate for Neph- 

 rolepis Barrowsi, a sport from the Pierson fern of much the same 

 character as the Tarrytown fern, but somewhat less finely divided 

 and apparently a better plant. 



The Lucius H. Foster Estate, Honorable Mention for Neph- 

 rolepis Dorchester, a sport from the Anna Foster fern which bears 

 the same relation to its parent as the Tarrytown fern does to the 

 Pierson fern. 



Bayard Thayer, Honorable Mention for a pan of Phlox divari- 

 cata, showing the beauty of this plant when forced; and to the 

 Misses Eldridge, Norfolk, Conn., for some beautiful sprays of 

 Bouga in v illcea spectah His . 



April 15 J. E. Rothwell showed two new orchids, Cattleya Gua- 

 temalensis (C. Skimieri X Epidendrum aurantiacum) and Pha- 

 jus Marfhop, (P. Blumei X P. fi(berculosus). The former 

 received a First Class Certificate and is a beautiful free-flowering 

 orchid, retaining much of the color of the seed parent but strongly 

 effected in form by the pollen parent. The latter received Honor- 

 able Mention and is a large flower in the characteristic brown and 

 yellow shades of the genus, but was not in sufficiently good condi- 

 tion to form a correct opinion of its merits. 



April 29 Robert Marshall, gardener to E. W. Converse, was 

 awarded a Cultural Certificate for well-grown plants of Amarijllis 

 viftafa, and Thomas T. Watt a like award for a fine plant of Sac- 

 colahium ampullaceum with seven spikes of beautiful rosy purple 

 blooms. 



