274 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



From the President of the Society a very beautiful display of roses, in 

 great variety, including a dozen kinds of moss, many hybrid perpetuals, and 

 new hardy kinds, numbering a thousand blooms ; also cut flowers of new 

 and fine pelargoniums, including Sophia Matilda, Lady Sale, Constellation, 

 Beauty Supreme, Symmetry, Nestor, &c., and seven pots of fuchsias. 

 From John Hovey, three pots of Lilium japonicum, well grown. From 

 Hon. J. S. Cabot, new pagonies, viz, Hericartiana, f^stiva, elegantissima, 

 Hiimei, &c., and a fine seedling. From Joseph Breck & Co., a great 

 variety of hardy roses, including six varieties of moss, hardy perpetuals, 

 and many other superb kinds ; fifty varieties of anemonies, fine ranuncu- 

 luses and pinks ; also, Phlox Van Houttew, and numerous perennials and 

 annual flowers. 



Messrs. Hovey & Co. exhibited upward of five hundred varieties of hardy 

 roses, including twenty kinds of moss, thirty of hybrid perpetual, several new 

 spotted and striped roses, five kinds of Prairie, and many others, — in all 

 nearly two thousand blooms. The following are the names of the thirty prize 

 flowers ; — Gallica — Boula de Nanteuil, Mazeppa, Jean d'Albret, Franklin, 

 Neron, Bizarre Marbree,Duc de Bassano, La Ville de Gand, Letitia, Phare- 

 ricus, Pergolese, De Laage, Czar, Mari6 Antoinette : Hybrid Province — 

 Latour L'Auvergne, Louise Leker, Mad. Henfiette, La Ville de Londres : 

 Provence — Cabbage, Pauline Garcia, Princess Clementine, La Ville de 

 Bruxelles : Hybrid -China — Chenedole, Vandael, Grilony, d'Audigne de la 

 Blanchaire : Hybrid Bourbon — Chas. Duval, Paul Perras, Ernest Ferray, 

 Elize Mercosur ; among the mosses, Catharine of Wurtemberg, Celni'a, 

 Ponctu6, Princess Koyal, Charlotte du Sor, and Asepala, and among the 

 spotted and striped roses, Euralie la Brun, Mecene, Donna Sol, CEillet 

 Parfait, Jean Bart, Antiope, &c. ; also, the following plants: — Veronica 

 speciosa, a large specimen, two feet high, with ten of its spikes of brilliant 

 flowers — some blue and others nearly white, fully expanded, £rica Savile- 

 ana, profusely covered with blossoms, Achimenes picta and longiflora, a 

 seedling Crassula, Maid of Orleans Jasmine, and Gloxinia macrophylla 

 variegata. 



From Messrs. Winship, a large trisulc (three pointed) bouquet, of sin- 

 gular appearance, containing an immense quantity of flowers ; also a fine 

 display of Queen of the Prairie, Perpetual pink, Baltimore Belle and Su- 

 perba roses, with numerous other roses and cut flowers of various kinds. 

 From Messrs. Walker & Co. one handsome tree rose in a pot, four cac- 

 tuses and one crassula. From R. West, Salem, a handsome bouquet. 

 From T. Needham, beautiful specimens of Phlox Van Houtteu and other 

 flowers. From Mr. Warren, roses in variety, bouquet composed of pan- 

 sies and numerous cut flowers. Bouquets and cut flowers, from W. Mel- 

 ler, Mrs. EUery, P. Barnes, D. Crowley, W. Quant, W. Kenrick, W. E. 

 Carter, J. Dunklee, Capt. Macondry, and S. Walker. 



The award of premiums was as follows : — 

 Roses. — For the best thirty varieties, a premium to Messrs. Hovey «& 

 Co. of $8. 



For the second best thirty varieties, a premium to J. Breck & Co. of $6. 



