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are large and well-formed, its color clear and crisp, and the 
foliage perfect. Among others, the following were especially 
noteworthy: Dame Blanche and Miss Ellen Willmott, pure 
white, double; Montaigne, white flushed with lilac; Sieboldi, with 
creamy white buds, opening almost white, with just a faint in- 
dication of cream; Montgolfier, dull lilac, the involute margins 
exposing the paler outer surface, giving the flowers a margined 
appearance; Cristophe Colomb, pale lavender, large clusters; 
Edmund Boissier, large flowers of deep bright lilac; Reaumer, 
bright lilac, full clusters; Milton, deep lilac; Pasteur, deep bright 
lilac; Monument Carnot, almost a light blue; Volcan, full clusters 
of deep bright lilac flowers; and Negro, deep red purple. Mr. 
Havemeyer also made large exhibits of the flowers of shrubs 
and trees, azaleas, and of tree peonies. An interesting exhibit 
was a seedling hybrid of the tree peony, Paeonia Moutan, with 
Paeonia lutea, ans in its fully double flowers, the petals 
yellow, ruby att ase. 
Mr. John ios CL. exhibited an attractive vase of Gladiolus 
Panama, the flowers a bright pink; also vases of Silver Sheen 
and Niagara, of the same genus. The New York Botanical 
Garden ea an exhibit of trees and shrubs, herbaceous 
plants, and tulips. 
e exhi te held on June 8 and 9 was the largest ever 
given by the Society during the summer. The largest exhibitor 
here was again Mr. Havemeyer. he most attractive feature 
of this exhibition was a large and magnificent display of her- 
baceous peonies made i Over two hundred vases were 
the purest white, through pink and rose, to the deepest crimson, 
and in every form, from the single flower, with its center of 
yellow stamens, to the large fully double ones in which the 
stamens were entirely replaced with petals. This collection 
entirely filled one of the center tables, and also considerable 
oor space. 
The first prize was awarded to Mr, Havemeyer for the largest 
and best collection of these flowers, not less than six flowers of 
