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by the Agricultural College. They made a fine show, adding much 

 to tliB attractiveness of this department. There were but few 

 flowers in this collection, and those we saw were hardly so taste- 

 fn^y aiTanged as we should expect, coming from the quarter they 

 did. We make exception in favor of one or two jolates of pansies, 

 set in Lycopadium. They were quite charming. The three collec- 

 tions of flowers showed an amount of painstaking and skill worthy 

 of all praise. Mrs. Grey's hanging basket was made up with a gi-eat 

 deal of taste. For harmony of design, and a generally pleasing 

 efiect, we do not remember to have seen its equal. Mrs. Boutwell's 

 collection, though no; so elaborate y arranged as the others, showed 

 her usual success in flower-raising. Her exhibition of everlastings 

 was particularly large and fine. Passing on to collections of varie- 

 ties of the same plant, we notice that of verbenas, presented by Mr. 

 Howard, of Belchertown. It contained eighty-five hamed varie- 

 ties, many of them choice specimens, and all v/orthy of cultivation. ' 

 For bedding purposes, we have been accustomed to regard the ver- 

 bena as without a rival ; but we have now, in the different varieties 

 of Drummond Flox, a candidate for pubHc favor which threatens to 

 take somewhat from the prestige of this long-established favorite. 

 There wer^e on exhibition twenty varieties of these bright-eyed an- 

 nuals, presented by Mr. L. W. Goodell, of Belchertown. With 

 these two classes of plants alone, with all their changing hues, no 

 garden need be dull from June to October. We must not pass by 

 a rich collection of twenty varieties of pansies, also presented by 

 Mr. Goodell, nor a well- arranged and choice collection of Gladioli 

 by Mrs. Grey. These latter have so successfully pushed themselves 

 into public favor that no dissent of ours will avail anything to check 

 an over-estimate of their merits. No one can deny that they have 

 color, and succeed well in showing it. In grace and modesty they 

 are sadly lacking. But as it takes all sorts of people to make a 

 world, and all sorts of flowers to make a garden, so let them have a 

 place, and no mean one, in every florist's collection. 



In behalf of the Committee. 



T. G. Huntington. 



