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FLOWER EXHIBITIONS. 
The Horticultural Society of New York, in codperation with 
the Garden, held its exhibitions as usual during the summer and 
fall, in the halls devoted to paleo-botany on the ground floor of 
the Museum. The premiums for the July and August exhibitions 
were offered by the Garden, to be awarded by the exhibition 
committee of the council of The Horticultural Society of N 
York. The exhibitions were well attended and gave aes to 
many people. This was especially the case on Sunday afternoons. 
The flowers at the close of the exhibitons were distributed to 
hospitals and other similar institutions. 
The usual July exhibition was held a little earlier this year, 
taking place on the last two days of June. The premiums offered 
were for roses, Japanese irises, sweet peas, herbaceous plants, 
shrubs and trees, and vegetables. Open-to-all and non-com- 
mercial classes were provided for irises and sweet peas 
Mr. A. P. Stokes, of Noroton, Ct., Andrew Whitelaw, gardener, 
won the first prize for roses, the second going to Mr. H. Darling- 
ton, of Mamaroneck, N. Y., P. W. Popp, gardener. Scott Bros. 
secured the first prize, open to all, for twelve vases of Japanese 
irises, with an exhibit of superb blooms, Mr. John Lewis Childs, 
of Floral Park, N. Y., taking second. 
Six vases of sweet peas, in the open to all class, won the first 
prize for Miss M. T. Cockcroft, of Saugatuck, Ct., Adam Pater- 
son,gardener, the second going to Mrs. J. B. Trevor, of Yonkers, 
N. Y., Howard Nichols, gardener. Miss Cockcroft also took the 
first prize for a vase of sweet peas, Mr. H. Darlington, second. 
To Mrs. F. A. Constable, Mamaroneck, N. Y., James Stuart, 
gardener, was awarded the first prize for a collection of flowers of 
herbaceous plants. A large collection of the flowers of shrubs 
and trees gave the first prize to Mr. T. A. Havemaeyer, of Glen 
Head, N. Y., A. Lahodny, gardener, the second to Mr. H. 
Darlington. 
To Mr. James A. Macdonald, Flushing, N. Y., Richard Hughes, 
gardener, was awarded the first prize for six vases of Japanese 
irises, in the class for non-commercial growers, the second to Mr. 
