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Boston Florists' Bowling League. 



The ■wind-up of the bowling season 

 was celebrated by the members of the 

 Boston Florists' Bowling League and 

 their friends, to the number of 135, at 

 a banquet on Thursday evening, 

 March 22, at Young's Hotel. The band- 

 some trophies which had been pro- 

 vided by friends in the trade were 

 duly presented to the winning teams 

 and individuals. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The next annual meeting of the 

 Railway Gardening Association will be 

 held August 7, 8 and 9 at Atlantic 

 City, N. J. The following committee 

 was appointed to arrange program and 

 make hotel arrangements: J. K. Win- 

 gert, F. W. Vail and J. E. Smith. 



The Park Institute of New England 

 had a meeting in Hartford, Conn., on 

 Wednesday, March 28, at the Hotel 

 Hueblein. The subject of Consolida- 

 tion of Parks and Playgrounds was dis- 

 cussed by G. A. Parker, supt. of parks 

 of Hartford, Ernst Hermann, supt. of 

 playgrounds, Newton, Mass., and others. 



The next convention of the Canadian 

 Horticultural Association will be held 

 in Montreal on August 7-8-9, 1917. The 

 executive committee had a meeting in 

 Montreal, March 19, at which a com- 

 plete program for the three days was 

 laid out. A banquet at the Queens 

 Hotel tendered by the Montreal mem- 

 bers brought the session to a close. 



The March meeting of the Rhode 

 Island Horticultural Society was held 

 in the Public Library, Providence, R. 

 I., on Wednesday evening, March 21 

 Prof. S. C. Damon, of the Rhode Island 

 State College Experiment Station, lec- 

 tured- on the Cultivation of Potatoes, 

 paying particular attention to the culti- 

 vation of potatoes on small areas. 

 There was also a discussion as to tho 

 proper classification of Chrysanthe- 

 mums for exhibition purposes. 



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