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HOKTICULTUKE 



April 28, 1917 



A SUCCESSFUL INNOVATION. 



An innovation in tlie way of flower 

 shows wbich met witb considerable 

 success was tried in New Brunswick, 

 N. J., April 12 to 15, 1917. Instead of 

 having the flowers all grouped to- 

 gether in one large building or room, 

 according to the conventional method 

 of holding flower shows, exhibits were 

 placed in various store windows along 

 George street, the main business street 

 of the city. The purpose of employ- 

 ing this new and very novel method 

 of displaying the flowers was to at- 

 tract the notice, not only of those who 

 would be willing to take the trouble to 

 visit a show held in a special building, 

 but also of those who are not interest- 

 ed in flowers or their cultivation and 

 whose attention could be gotten only 

 by placing the flowers where their eyes 

 could not fail to fall upon them often 

 during the walk to and from business 

 or at other times during the day. 



Judging from the number of people 

 who might be seen gathered around 

 the windows in which the different ex- 

 hibits were placed, this original 

 method of displaying flowers was very 

 successfully introduced. And besides 

 the success attending it as a flower 

 show, another phase of it is worthy of 

 note, — its advertising value. No dif- 

 ficulty was experienced in obtaining 

 the use of store windows in which to 

 place the exhibits, and it is certain 

 that should another such event take 

 place many more merchants would be 

 willing and anxious to offer the use of 

 their windows. 



Another advantage of this method 

 was that it gave one the opportunity 

 of appreciating the beauty and attrac- 

 tiveness of the individual blooms. Af- 

 ter visiting a flower show of the kind 

 usually held one retains but an impres- 

 sion of a riot of confused and mingled 

 beauty, with no distinct and vivid re- 

 membrance of individual flowers or 

 plants. Seeing the various exhibits 

 one at a time, however, with the name 

 of each bloom plainly written on a 

 card attached to it, one is able to re- 

 member those which appear most at- 

 tractive, for reference when planning 

 a home garden. 



(The foregoing has just come to us 

 through sources outside of the trade 

 and as no mention is made therein of 

 flower store participation in the enter- 

 prise so we are thus far quite in igno- 

 rance of the attitude of the local flower 

 trade towards the affair or of the pro- 

 moters toward the trade. But it reads 

 good and is suggestive of things which 

 we believe in and should like to see 

 developed. Comments by our readers 

 are invited. — Ed.] 



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A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF 

 GEORGE WASHINGTON. 

 When the gardeners met in Washing- 

 ton last December they journeyed to 

 Mount Vernon and while there sug- 

 gested to H. H. Dodge, superintendent 

 of the estate, that it would be very 

 nice to have an English yew tree 

 planted there. He assented and ac- 

 cepted the offer of the gardeners to 

 furnish such a tree. W. N. Craig, who 

 was then president of the association, 

 appointed a committee to arrange for 

 the planting and so on April 23, 

 Tlieodore Wirth, of Minneapolis, vice- 

 president, and Martin C. Ebel, secre- 



I Coming Exhibitions 



Boston, MaMN.. June. — Massachu- 

 setts Hortii-wltuMil Society Outdoor 

 Kxhiliition. 



Philadelphia, Pa., June. — Exhibit 

 Americau I'eoiiy Society. 



Pittsburgh, Pa., June 13-16. — 

 Flower Show at Motor Square Gar- 

 den under the auspices of the Gar- 

 den Club of Allegheny County. 



Rochester, N. Y., June 15. — Peony 

 Show of the Koehester Florists' As- 

 sociation, at Convention Hall. 



Hartford, Conn., June 18-20. — Kose 

 Show, Filizabeth Park, by the Ameri- 

 can Rose Society. 



Boston, Mass., June 23-24. — Rose, 

 Peony and Strawberry Exhibit, Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Newport, K. I., July 4. — Show of 

 outdoor Roses by the American Rose 

 Society. 



Boston, Mass., July 7-8. — Annual 

 Exhibit of the American Sweet Pea 

 Society, under the auspices of the 

 Mass, Horticultural Society. 



Winnetka, III., July 12.— Exhibit 

 Flowers and Vegetables. 



Winnetka, III., Aug. 16. — Asters, 

 Gladioli and Dahlias. 



New York. August 33-26."Eighth 

 Annual Exhiliition American Gladio- 

 lus Society. Museum Building, Bo- 

 tanical Gardens, Bronx Park. 



Newport, R. I„ Sept. 5-7. — Annual 

 Fall Show, Newport Horticultural 

 Society. 



Tarrytown, N. Y., Nov. 7-9. — An- 

 nual Pall Show, Tarrytown tlorti- 

 cultural Society. 



Syracuse, N. Y'., Sept. 10-15.— New 

 York State Fair. 



San Francisco, Calif.. Sept. 21-22.— 

 Show of the California Dahlia So- 

 ciety. 



tary of the association, William F, 

 Gude, Washington representative of 

 the S. A. F. and 0. H.; George Wesley 

 Hess, superintendent of the Botanic 

 Gardens; Edward S. Schmid, of Wash- 

 ington; A. C. Godward and A. B. 

 Gowdry, both of Minneapolis, made 

 the trip to Mount Vernon for the 

 actual planting of the tree. 



GARDEN AND CLUB WORK IN- 

 STRUCTION. 

 Instruction for those who are to 

 organize and supervise garden and 

 clul) work projects in Massachusetts, 

 1917, will be given at the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, Amherst, 

 on Thursday and Friday of each week. 

 All meetings in French Hall, Room E. 

 F'ollowing is the program: 



THUR.SD.W. 



S.OO A. M. A general statement of 

 the situation we are facing. Director, 

 William D. Hurd. 



9.00 A. M. Junior extension club 

 work organization. Supervisor, George 

 L. Farley. 



10.00 A. M. Garden planting, etc. 

 Professor A. S. Thomson. 



1.00 P. M. Garden practice, imple- 

 ments, etc. Professor A. S. Thomson. 



3.00 P. M. Demonstration, canning. 

 Miss "Marie Sayles. 



FRIDAY. 



8.00 A. M. Drying, evaporating, etc., 

 fruits. Professor W. W. Cheuoweth. 



9.00 A. M. Dry storage of veget- 

 ables. Professor A. S. Thomson. 



10.00 A. M. Garden pests. Doctor 

 H. T. Fernald. 



1.00 P. M. How to organize work 

 in towns. Professor E. L. Morgan. 



3.00 P. M. Garden practice, imple- 

 ments, etc. Professor A. S. Thomson. 



IN THE LINE OF PROGRESS. 



Editor Horticulture: 



Dear Sir. — During the week before 

 Easter 1 visited the show-rooms in 

 Grand Rapids of Freyling & Mendels, 

 the florists. Never within my recol- 

 lection have I seen such a delightful 

 profusion of greenhouse flowers. The 

 plants in the lower or main rooms were 

 grouped with rare feeling for beauty, 

 and careful regard for form and color. 

 For example: pale primrose Azalea 

 mollis with standard Wistaria near 

 (lavender) with a foreground of Cin- 

 erarias in tones of bluish-violet. There 

 were almost no clashes of color. 



Then how far-sighted are they who 

 dare in a smaller city to force and 

 offer for sale such Daffodils as Mme. 

 de Graff and Lucifer. How thoroughly 

 1 agree with a writer in the Florists' 

 Exchange, who said lately that the sad 

 lack in the New York flower shows is 

 the absence of competition in new va- 

 rieties of flowers. We shall never 

 learn — we shall never teach — until the 

 body of our florists and flower-show 

 exhibitors act on such suggestions as 

 this and upon such examples as I have 

 mentioned above. 



To speak of one other matter which 

 should deeply concern the florists; it 

 is now more important than ever be- 

 fore that the salespeople of the florist's 

 establishment should be ready with the 

 correct common botanical names of 

 every flower shown. The last few 

 years of gardening fervor in the coun- 

 try have created an educated flower- 

 buying public and the time is here 

 when a lack of intelligence on the part 

 of those who sell flowers will surely be 

 visited upon them by a falling off in 

 their business. Very truly yours, 



Mrs. Francis King. 



Alma, Mich., April 18. 



Plant Propagation, Greenhouse 

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