June 9, 1917 



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Clubs and Societies 



MEETINGS NEXT WEEK. 



Monday, June 11. 



Clevelaiul Florists' Cluli, IloUeu- 

 den Hotel, t'levelaud. Ohio. 



Garduers' and Florists' Club of 

 Baltimore. Florists' Excbauge Hall, 

 Baltimore. Mil. 



New Yoi-k Florists' Club, Grand 

 Opera House, New York City. 



Kocbester Florists' Association, 

 95 Main St., East Rochester, N. Y. 



Tuesday, June 12. 



Newport llnrlicultural Society, 

 Newport. K. I. 



Wednesday, June 13. 



Cincinuati Florists' Snciety, Jabez 

 Elliott Flower Market, Ciuciunati, O. 



Dutchess Couuty Horticultural 

 Society, Fallkill IJUlg., Poughkeepsle, 

 N. Y. 



Lenox Horticultural Society, Lenox, 

 "M'n ^^ 



Morris Couuty Florists' and Gar- 

 deners' Society. Madison, N. J. 



Nassau Couuty Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Pembroke Hall. Glen Cove, 

 N. Y. 



Thursday, June 14. 



Menlo I'ark Horticultural Society, 

 Meulo Park. Calif. 



New Loudou Horticultural Soci- 

 ety. Municipal lildg.. New London, 

 Conn. 



Friday, June 15. 



North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 Manchester, Mass. 



CLUBS AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Philadelphia Florist Club was held on 

 the 5th inst. The special feature was 

 an advertising film of the Milwaukee 

 & St. Paul R. R. 



Next Monday, June 11, will be "Iris 

 Night" at the New York Florists' Club. 

 There will also be an illustrated lec- 

 ture by J. Otto Thilow of Philadelphia 

 on "Life and Flora of Hawaii." 



The Connecticut Horticultural So- 

 ciety has decided to give up all flower 

 shows for the year on account of the 

 war conditions, but will probably have 

 a vegetable exhibition in the fall. 



The first of the June exhibitions of 

 fiowers, fruits and vegetables of Wor- 

 cester County (Mass.) Horticultural 

 Society will be June 14 in Horticul- 

 tural Hall. Exhibitions will then con- 

 tinue every Thursday until October. 

 The season will close with the chrys- 

 anthemum show in November. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Waco, Texas— Thos. J. Wolfe has 

 suffered a nervous breakdown and has 

 gone into a sanitarium. 



Saco, Me.— Alonzo Hill of North 

 Saco a well known florist and gar- 

 dener, was given a surprise party 

 Tuesday evening. May 29. by 23 rela- 

 tives and friends, the occasion bemg 

 his 73d birthday anniversary. Mr. HiU, 

 who is a veteran of the Civil War, was 

 the recipient of many gifts, among 

 them being a large flag which was 

 presented with appropriate exercises 

 consisting of patriotic songs and read- 

 ings to which Mr. Hill responded most 

 feelingly. The remainder of the even- 

 ing was spent socially. 



THE EDUCATIONAL IN LAND 



SCAPE PLANTING. 



From "Art in Landscape Gardening." by 

 A. H. and N. M. Lake, Marshtleld, Wis. 



Considering the very important part 

 performed by plants, directly and in- 

 directly in the life, welfare, comfort 

 and enjoyment of mankind it would 

 seem that scientific knowledge of 

 plants should be one of the foremost 

 studies in our schools and colleges 

 and that popular education in this 

 branch should begin at an early age 

 and vigorously followed throughout 

 our whole course of study. On the 

 contrary there is no scientific study 

 so briefly taught and so lightly passed 

 over by students as the science of 

 plants. The loss in wealth and pleas- 

 ure through insufficient knowledge of 

 plants is, today, one of our greatest 

 economic leaks. Our text books in 

 botany and our failure to start the 

 pupil in its study at an earlier age are 

 at fault. A considerable portion or 

 field and descriptive botany should be 

 given young pupils in the form of in- 

 teresting, illustrated, descriptive and 

 instructive reading lessons and at the 

 early age that children love and de- 

 light to roam the fields and woodlands 

 in search of wild fiowers and fruits. 

 At this early and impressionable age 

 the young pupils' minds would be 

 filled and fixed with many facts of the 

 science of plants and they would be 

 much more interested in and recep- 

 tive of the more fundamental princi- 

 ples set forth in the text books of 

 botany when the time arrived to take 

 up this important study. 



Investigation will disclose the fact 

 that only our most eminent botanists 

 have acquired what may be termed an 

 intimate knowledge of a large variety 

 of plants; that the technical descrip- 

 tions of plants in our text books were 

 all written fifty to one hundred and 

 fifty years ago— brief, meager and 

 often erroneous: that the average 

 teacher of botany in our schools and 

 colleges is a book botanist and rarely 

 has an intimate knowledge of plants 

 themselves; that students in our 

 schools and colleges have a very re- 

 stricted opportunity to gain an inti- 

 mate knowledge of plants on account 

 of the limited range of varieties in 

 their environment; that an arboretum 

 for each school would be a costly es- 

 tablishment; that in the area of our 

 home and public grounds we have the 

 opportunity of easily and cheaply 

 creating such arboreta; that the nur- 

 sery industry in this country is just 



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in its infancy and that our nursery- 

 men are insuflficiently stocked with 

 the known species of plants that are 

 desirable and decorative; that our 

 nurseries are inefficiently equipped 

 with proper storage facilities for hold- 

 ing dormant plants; that there are no 

 millionaire nurserymen and that 

 prices for nursery stocks, retail and 

 wholesale, are too low to afford a fair 

 and adequate profit; that it is well 

 nigh impossible to develop landscape 

 gardeners and landscape architects 

 into landscape artists until the public 

 acquire a more intimate knowledge 

 of plants; that the cardinal principle 

 of landscape art. both on the part of 

 the artist and the critic, is intimate 

 knowledge of plants. 



However much knowledge and skill 

 an artist may possess or exhibit in 

 his works, his reputation depends up- 

 on the capability of the public to un- 

 derstand and appreciate his art. The 

 development of an art can proceed 

 no faster than the education of the 

 public. It was a long, long road from 

 the Pipe of Pan to the magnificent 

 pipe organ of today. Unless we 

 quicken the interest and education of 

 the public in the intimate knowledge 

 of plants our present aimless and in- 

 terestless landscape decoration will 

 continue and the cleaning up and 

 beautifying of our cities will remain 

 a slow and stubborn problem. 



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