These were fully up to the cultural attainments of last year, and the species of plants exhibited had little that was novel. Mr. Dreer's gloxinias were very attractive. He had several hundred in 3 and 4-inch pots, and no two were quite alike. The spotted forms were much admired. For summer culture under glass, there are few things more desirable. A huge Maranta zebrina by John Hughes, gardener to Mr. Geo. W. Childs, must have been about 8 feet high by as much wide, including the tub it was grown in. He also had a specimen of that graceful palm, Areca Verschaffeltii, that was about 6 feet high.

Mr. Warne, gardener to Clarence H. Clark, Esq., one of our best plant growers, among many specimens that showed excellent handling, had a Caladium Chantini, growing in a 14-inch pan, that had about seventy-five leaves on it. Mr. Warne had also in bloom a plant of Anthurium crystallinum which had eight leaves, each about 1 foot by 18 inches. Dark green, with greenish-white veins. The plant is attractive, but the flowers are no great shakes. An Australian tree fern, Dicksonia Australis, with a trunk about 3 feet high and fronds about 3 feet long, was as handsome to our mind as the 10-feet-tall plants we read about.

Tree ferns are always attractive curiosities, and a Blechnum Brasiliensis in the collection of Mr. Nesbit, gardener to Mrs. D. Jayne, came in for a good share of popular notice. Its stem was about 2 feet high. A queer but rather ornamental foliage plant with square stems and mottled pinky leaves in this collection, called Campylobo-trys Ghiesbrechtiana, was attractive. Ferns are always out in full force now-a-days. Mr. Chas. Ball had a nice collection, not so large and well grown as some in the first premium collection, but they were of uniform size - in pans about 16x8 inches deep and the plants about 2x2 feet. Mr. W. Joyce, who together with Mr. A. Warne, are famous for their superior growth of Caladiums, had some striking specimens of some things we have noticed before. There was an Anthurium leuconeurum, an aroid about 3 feet by 3 and green instead of yellow nerves. There was a pretty specimen of the nearly hardy Chusan palm, Chaemarops Fortuni, bushy and about 3x3 feet. The rather new Stag's Horn fern, Platycerium Hillii, dark green instead of gray as in the common form, and among palms the singular Caryota ureus, having its fronds cut up into small segments like green wings of butterflies.

In this collection also was a specimen of the curious and celebrated Thief palm, Phoenicophorium Seychel-larum. The stems and stalks of the fronds are covered with reddish black spines, while the broad recurved frond is not much unlike a green plaited Japan parasol. Several growers had this rare palm. The Fergussons' collections were rich in Dracaenas and Crotons. To us one of the best novelties was Dracaena Lindeni. There was more of yellowish-green than usual in this family, which have been in the popular kinds running mostly into rose and brown tints. They also had a rather uncommon aroid, Anthurium Sanderi. The leaves were glossy green, and the veins white, with a sagittate form like some others, but the edges of the leaves were deeply crenate. Among the curious plants in Mr. Dreer's collection, Aralia Kerchoveana, was striking from the deeply toothed lobes of the palmate leaves, resembling the leaves of a sweet chestnut. The variegated fig, Ficus Parnelli, and the Majestic Melastome Cyanophyllum magnificum, were in many collections, but were particularly attractive in the collection of Eisele Brothers. Craig Brothers, besides the small pot ferns which were very grateful in their numerous varieties to those who for want of room could do no more than admire the huge specimens of the roomy growers, had also a collection of China Asters, showing how much they have been improved of late.

Among them was a rich carmine tint which is rare yet. The speckled and quilled forms were in great variety.