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Hardy coniferous trees, a class in which there has been but little 

 interest shown for several years, were well represented and added 

 much to the exhibition. 



Competition in the classes for stove and greenhouse plants was 

 not very spirited and had it not been for Mr. Cameron's magnifi- 

 cent group from the Harvard Botanic Garden this class would 

 have been very poorly represented. This without doubt was the 

 finest group ever staged in our halls and Mr. Cameron was awarded 

 a Silver Medal in recognition of the superior skill sl^own in its 

 arrangement. 



The increased popularity of the dahlia has made it of so much 

 importance that in future it will be made the prominent feature 

 of an exhibition which will practically replace the present fall ex- 

 hibition and be held somewhat earlier so there will be less danger 

 of injury from frosts. 



Besides the silver medal before mentioned there were a number 

 of special awards made, mostly for new dahlias. A. E. Johnson 

 of Brockton made an extensive display of seedlings, all of which 

 were of equal quality with existing varieties. Nine of these were 

 selected as quite distinct and each awarded Honorable ^Mention. 

 Gen. Miles, the only one bearing a name, is a Fancy of a light 

 purple color streaked with crimson. No. 89, a finely quilled Show 

 variety of a delicate white and mauve color. No. 6, a white Deco- 

 rative variety. No. 10, a fine Show bloom, chrome yellow, shaded 

 orange. No. 2, a Fancy with orange-yellow ground, streaked with 

 crimson. No. 25 a finely quilled Show variety, maroon, tinged 

 crimson. No. 27 a pure yellow Show bloom. No. 75, a Decora- 

 tive variety with cherry pink petals, tipped with white, and No. 44 

 a fine sulphur yellow Cactus variety. 



E. W. Green was also awarded Honorable Mention for a seed- 

 ling single dahlia, named Mary Green, with broad rounded petals 

 crimson at the base and tipped with white. 



Other special awards made were a First Class Certificate to 

 Henry A. Dreer for Victoria Trickeri a remarkable new variety 

 which succeeds at a much lower temperature than the original 

 species. 



Honorable Mention was also awarded the same exhibitor for 

 two Nymphfeas, A^. Bissetii and N. dentata magnifica; the former, 



