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HORTICULTURE 



May 26, 1917 



MEMORIAL DAY 



pLACE your orders \A/ith 

 us for your Memorial Day 

 wants. We carry a large 

 supply of Roses, Carnations, 

 Spirea Japonica, Candytuft 

 and Stocks. 



Also an attractive line of 

 Wreaths. 



D. 8 E. J. WELCH 



280-282 Devonshire St. 

 BOSTON, MASS. 



Tel. Fort Hill 1964-196S 



FOR MEMORIAL 



We carry the Stock of the Best 

 Growers in New England 



ROSES, CARNATIONS, 



SPIREAS, PEONIES, 



CANDYTUFT, FEVERFEW 



OF BEST QUALITY 



Other Seasonable Flowers at Right Prices 



We Aim to Please 



A Pleased Cnttomer is Onr Best AdTcrtisement 



B. A. SNYDER CO. 



The House of Quality 

 728 Devonshire St., BOSTON, MASS. 



Telephones, Fort Hill 1083 and 1084 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 





BOSTON. 



The Metropolitan Park Commission 

 have plowed the park land in the Ne- 

 ponset river reservation at Mattapan 

 for the benefit of the residents in that 

 section. 



Thomas F. Galvin has sent in his 

 resignation as a member of the Park 

 and Recreation Board, because of 

 pressure of business, and the mayor 

 has appointed J. K. M. L. Farquhar to 

 succeed Mr. Galvin. The selection of 

 Mr. Farquhar for this important duty 

 meets with widespread approval on 

 all sides and the daily newspapers 

 have without exception spoken appre- 

 ciatively of the mayor's action. The 

 other members of the board are 

 John H. Dillon, chairman, and Robert 

 S. Peabody, landscape architect. The 

 chairman is the only salaried member. 



The crowning glory of the spring 

 gardens in this section for this year 

 has been the magnolias. Never before, 

 as our memory goes, have they been 

 so profuse in flower and the blooms so 

 perfect. The forsythias and also Japan 

 cherries have also given evidence that 

 the weather conditions of the past year 

 have been ideal for their highest de- 



velopment. It is not so with some other 

 things however, for the hawthorns and 

 pyruses so far as we have seen will be 

 sparse of bloom, and the cornuses and 

 wisterias show many winter-blasted 



J. K. M. L. Farquhak. 



buds. Lilacs, as they are at present 

 are about eight or ten days late in 

 flowering and they appear to be much 

 below the average in quantity of bloom. 

 Some rhododendrons seem rather shy 

 on number of flower buds as compared 

 with the past two years, but winter 

 damage to foliage is very slight. 



Operations have been under way for 

 some time at the Wentworth Institute 

 grounds on Huntington avenue, in pre- 

 paration for the very ambitious out- 

 door horticultural exhibition which is 

 to be conducted there during the first 

 two weeks of June under the auspices 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety. The show will occupy a space 

 of three acres, and the most notable 

 private estates and commercial floral 

 establishments in this section will be 

 represented, as well as some prominent 

 growers from a distance. Rhododen- 

 drons, azaleas, orchids and other spe- 

 cial classes will be shown under huge 

 tents in a magnificence never before 

 touched in this country and there will 

 be rock gardens and other artistic gar- 

 dening effects in the open in which no 

 effort or expense will be spared. It is 

 stated that the cost of the setting for 

 this show will approximate ?25,000. 



The grounds and exhibits will not 



