May 15, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



697 



Scarcity For Memorial Day? 



Tliat's Wiiat Some Say, But it Needn't Worry You 

 Act in Time, Tliat's All 



We are ready to book your order and prepared to fill it, for Beauty, 

 Killarney, Liberty and all other Standard Varieties of Roses ; Carnations» 

 Stocks, Lilies, Spiraea, Sweet Peas, Daisies and Seasonable Flowers in 

 Full Assortment. 



Special^HARDY FERNS=Special 



Finest Quality of Hardy Ferns, Leucothoe, Galax, etc., and a Complete Line of 

 Inscriptions. Cyca?, Sheaves, Immortelles, Baskets, Vasts and other Supplies 



SEND NOW for Supply Catalogue and Cut Flower Price List 



WELCH BROS. 



226 Devonsiiire Street 

 BOSTON 



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SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HOR- 

 TICULTURISTS. 

 The National Flower Show Com- 

 mittee. 

 President Valentine lias appointeJ 

 the following committee to take up and 

 formulate plans for holding another 

 National Flower Show: P. R. Pierson, 

 chairman; F. H. Traendly, New York; 

 J. K. M. L. Farquhar, Boston; W. J. 

 Stewart, Boston; Edwin Lonsdale, 



Philadephia; Robert Craig, Philadel- 

 phia; committee to have power to add 

 to its membership at discretion. 



It is the intention that this com- 

 mittee shall have entire charge of for- 

 mulating the preliminary arrange- 

 ments for a show and that it will be 

 prepared to report at the next Con- 

 vention, suggesting a time to hold the 

 show, the city in which it shall be 

 held, and to perfect and present a 

 complete organization to carry forward 

 the project to completion. 



W. N. RUDD, Secretary. 



May 7, 1909. 



NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY OF FRANCE. 



The annual spring show will be held 

 in Paris on May 17 to 23 and a sched- 

 ule comprising 370 classes has been 

 issued. IH conjunction therewith a 

 Horticultural Congress wil be held in 

 the hall of the society on May 19 and 

 20. Papers on various subjects of 

 horticultural Interest will be read, a 

 list of which accompanies the show 

 schedule. C. H. P. 



ANNOUNCEMENT 



JOHN SCOTT gra^g;^fh!'N"J: 



THE business of the late John Scott will continue under able manage- 

 ment. The reputation of the house for the finest plants and cut 

 flowers will be maintained. The patronage and confidence of the 

 Trade is solicited. This opportunity is taken to gratefully acknowledge 

 the kindness and sympathy of all for his family and to guarantee that the 

 same care and enterprise characterizing the record and reputation of 

 Mr. Scott in the past will be continued. 



