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This is the third summer school of this kind that Dr. Bigelow 

 has started in Connecticut and the experience gained in the 

 earher work should make this new venture a most helpful 

 one. The school will run for four weeks beginning June 21st 

 and the cost of tuition will be nominal. Situated on the shores 

 of Long Island Sound, the school should afford a most de- 

 lightful opportunity for getting acquainted with nature under 

 a capable teacher. * * * 



Of all the catalogues that have reached this office during 

 the spring, we have been most interested in those from the 

 Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N. C, and Wagner Park Con- 

 servatories, Sidney, Ohio. The Wagner Pork people seem to 

 be concerned not only in selling the plants but in helping the 

 buyer to plant them properly and to make them grow. The 

 Biltmore catalogue is also well arranged and is worth owning 

 for the illustrations of unusual flowers which it contains. The 

 time has gone by when a rose-bush or a lilac planted in the 

 middle of the lawn would be considered a complete decorative 

 planting. Landscape gardening has moved forward with 

 great rapidity during the past few years and if you own a half- 

 barrel painted green stuck on a post in the front yard and 

 intended for holding growing flowers in summer, it is time 

 you tore it down and set your lawn in order. Even your 

 weeping mulberries planted in the middle of the lawn ought 

 to go. It has taken the public a long time to discover that 

 shrubbery and flowers should be set on the borders of the 

 lawn and not scattered promisciously about it, and only the 

 observant have found it out yet, but if you would not be left 

 behind you must play the game. Get some of the progressive 

 catalogues, buy something besides geraniums and asters, and 



join the movement for a more beautiful country. 



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At a recent meeting of the Germantown Horticultural 



Society, the secretary, George Redles, exhibited a specimen 



