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a good delegation from Monmouth Horti- 

 cultural Society. Some excellent exhibits 

 were shown. The judges selected were: L. 

 Kennedy, William W'aite. and William Tur- 

 ner. The President introduced Thomas 

 Head, who gave a very instructive and help- 

 ful essay on the National Association of 

 Gardeners. W. Waite also spoke on the 

 same subject, after which a general discus- 

 sion was entered into by the society. The 

 President spoke with regret of D. Gustaf- 

 son, active member, leaving this section for 

 a position on the Hudson. The April meet- 

 ing will be a ladies' night when a good time 

 is expected for all. 



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HORTICULTURAL JOTTINGS 



The General Federation of Women's 

 Clubs is conducting a campaign for the ob- 

 servance of a National Garden Week, April 

 22 to 28, inclusive, which plan has received 

 the personal approval of President Hording. 



Programs may be secured by addressing 

 Mrs. John D. Sherman, General Federation 

 of Women's Clubs, 1734 N street, N. W., 

 Washington, D. C. 



Two large bouquets of flowers were found 

 in Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb in the Valley of 

 the Kings. This Egyptian monarch was 

 placed in his funeral chamber thirty-tive cen- 

 turies ago and the doors were sealed. When 

 an English explorer opened the tomb, he 

 found the funeral flowers still intact. 



Here, in truth are the flowers of yester- 

 day. According to the cable dispatches, they 

 were not arranged in wreaths or in any of 

 the floral designs customary at modern fun- 

 erals, but in the form of bouquets, such as 

 might be carried by a woman. . . . 



An attempt is being made to coat these 

 flowers with wax and preserve them for pub- 

 lic exhibition. These funeral flowers are a 

 touch of sentiment, proving how constant 

 human nature is. With all the outward 

 changes that have taken place in the afl'airs 

 of man since Tut-ankh-Amen reigned, men 

 and women have the same passions, the same 

 hates, loves, and fears, the same hopes, am- 

 bitions, and desires. Nothing found in the 

 tomb of the Valley of the Kings indicates 

 that the basic motives of human nature have 

 materially changed. Nor has its basic love 

 of beauty. — A'. Y. Evcnitig Mail. 



The fifth oldest known living thing on 

 earth, and the third oldest in North Amer- 

 ica, is a giant cypress tree in what is known 

 as the Edenborn Brake, in Winn parish, this 

 State, according to Carlton F. Poole of the 

 Louisiana State Convention Department. 



The age of the tree has been placed at 

 2,500 years by Prof. Herman Schrenk of St. 

 Louis, and other scientists who have exam- 

 ined it. According to records, it is ex- 

 ceeded in longevity only by the Santa Maria 

 del Tule cypress, near Oaxaca, Mexico, 5,000 

 to 6.000 years old ; the Dragon tree at Oro- 

 tava, Island of Teneriffe, 4,500 years old, 

 the Redwood tree, California, 4,000 years 

 old, and the Baobab tree, Senegal, 4,000 

 years old. 



The Edenborn cypress was budding into 

 life when Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchad- 

 nezzar. It was a lusty young sprout when 

 the battles of Marathon and Thermopylw 

 were fought, when Assyria was at the apex 

 of world dominion and when Rome was a 

 village of mud roads and hovels. The tree 

 was 600 years old when Christ was torn in 

 Bethlehem, a veteran when the Roman le- 

 gions were withdrawn from Britain to leave 

 the savage tribes of those islands to fight out 

 their differences, and was more than 2,00(1 

 years old when Columbus sailed into tin 

 Atlantic to begin his voyage of discovery. 



The tree was one of a number of its kind 

 in a tract of pine timber purchased by Will- 

 iam Edenborn some years ago and when 

 logging begati he refused to permit it and 



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A bountiful succession of this toothsome delicacy is yours if you follow these aim pie direclioni 



Plant this collection of 6 choice varieties all at once this Spring, just as soon as the 

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Here IS something ^ nu must have in your flower garden. 



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