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quets the flowers, though beautiful in themselves, were too 

 crowded, put together on about one level, and consequently 

 were lacking in that light, airy effect which is so essential in a 

 good boquet. 



The most instructive exhibit was that by Miss Tracy of one 

 hundred and fifty varieties of native flowers and fifty varieties 

 of fruits of native flowers, all very neatly labelled, and on each 

 label the common, as well as the scientific name, each written 

 in a clear, round hand, and almost as easy to read as print. 

 This was really the gem of the exhibition, if we consider 

 either the great labor necessary to bring so large a variety 

 together, each from its own wild habitat, or the rare opportu- 

 nity for instruction which this little side school afforded. We 

 know of one gentleman who thought so highly of it that he 

 started from a neighboring town, by the first train, to see if 

 five dollars would buy the dry remnant of it for the instruction 

 of his children. The flowers of the garden we meet only in a 

 few mere scattered dots of land, but the wild native flowers 

 meet us at every step of our walks in the woods and fields. 

 How vastly more important therefore is it that we should 

 know the names of the latter than of the former ; besides is 

 there not a place here for a patriotic plea — they are our own, 

 our native flowers, to the Manor born. 



The Committee award as follows ; 



Best parlor boquet, J. Halliday, premium, $3 ; pair hand 

 boquets, H. Young, 2 ; floral design, Mrs J. 0. Gile, 2 ; cut 

 flowers, Mrs. L. P. Weston, Danvers,2 ; 12 dahlias, H. Down- 

 ing, 1 ; 12 Gladioh, J. F. Marble, Lynn, 1 ; 12 petunias, Jona- 

 than Hay, 1; display of pansies, Anna Gregory, Marblehead, 

 12 verbenas, S. T. Goodwin, 1 ; display of native flowers, Mrs. 

 Susan A. Tracy, Lynn, 3 ; 12 double Zinnias, Anna Gregory, 

 Marblehead, 1 ; 12 cockscomb, Laura Gregory, do, 1 ; display 

 of Drummond's phlox, S. T. Goodwin, 1 ; do salpiglossis, C. 

 H. Whippen, Lynn, 1 ; 12 African marigolds, Laura Gregory, 

 Marblehead, 1 ; do French do, L. P. Weston, Danvers, 1 ; dis- 

 play mourning bride, H. C. Whippen, Lynn, 1 ; varieties can- 



