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James L. Willey, Lynn, Lill Dahilas ; Geo, 0. Thurston, Mix'd 

 Eternal Flowers ; Mrs. L. P.Weston, Danvers, Everlasting do; 

 E.N. Jaques, Haverhill, Pot Plant; Rebecca F. Carleton, 

 Autumnal Roses, prem., $1 each ; Mrs. C. N. S. Horner, 

 Georgetown, Native Flowers, prem., $d ; W. H. Spooner, 

 Boston, Display of Nasturtions; Mrs. L. P. Weston, Danvers, 

 best display ; T. C. Thurlow, West Newbury, Display of Trees 

 and Shrubs, prem., $4 each ; Daniel Hooke, Haverhill, Cactus; 

 E. N. Jaques, do. Hollyhock ; B. M. Johnson, do, Flowering 

 Plant ; Nettie L. Webster, do. Wild Flowers; Mrs. Mary 

 Hatch, do. Parlor Bouquets; Mrs. J. H. Hill. Amesbury, 

 Gladioli ; Mrs. M. E. Fuller, Middleton, Wild Flowers ; 

 Mrs. Charles B. Emerson, Haverhill, Amaryllis ; George 0. 

 Thurston, bouquet; Mrs. J. N. Littlefield, Haverhill, Pot 

 Plants; Mrs. L. P. Weston, Danvers, Marigold ; Anna R. 

 Dodge, Haverhill, display of Wild Flowers; A. Shirley Ladd, 

 Groveland, do; Mrs. W. W. Currier, Bradford, Pot Plants, &c., 

 gra., $1 each. F. Kief, Haverhill, Cacti, 26 varieties, gra., $3. 

 E. M. McLaughlin, Haverhill, collection of Ferns and Foliage 

 Plants, gra., "Birds of New England." 



The flower exhibition of the season was an inferior one, but 

 this is not surprising, for no part of our annual exhibition 

 begins to suffer so much from an unpropitious season or unfa- 

 vorable weather occurring near the time of exhibition as the 

 flower department. It is within bounds to say that one stormy 

 day occurring within a week of the day of exhibition will 

 destroy at least one-half of the show flowers of our gardens, 

 no matter how favorable the weather may be in the period in- 

 tervening ; and should a storm occur within three days of the 

 annual exhibit, then at least nine-tenths of the show flowers 

 will be ruined. Having to contend with both a remarkably 

 unpropitious season and w^eather unfavorable just before the 

 time for the annual exhibit, what could we reasonably antici- 

 pate in this department whose beauty and comeliness is fully 

 equalled by its frailty ? 



The remarkably choice show of Nasturtiums, by Mr. Spoon- 



