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Kahuav. \. ].; George Prastt-r, Montclair, 

 N. I.: Mrs. F. S. Fisher, Trenton. X. J.; 

 Robert L. Roe, Hohokus, N. J. ; Charles H. 

 Totty, Madison, N. J. The first regular 

 meeting took place in the Council Chamber 

 of the City Hall in Newark. N. J., when 

 plans for a field meeting in August and 

 the first annual show were discussed. The 

 latter will be held in Newark in the middle 

 of September — date and place to be an- 

 nounced shortly. 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe delivered a most 

 instructive illustrated lecture. 



This young society has already dnubkil 

 its membership and shows great promise. 

 Its slogan is "Quality above Quantity" and 

 its object, as incorporated in the Constitu- 

 tion is : 



"To stimulate the interest in dahlias: to 

 encourage the amateur : to assist the .grower 

 to keep a high standard for varieties origi- 

 nated and grown in the State of New 

 Jersey." 



It has affiliated with the -American Dahlia 

 Society and plans to assist the latter by tak- 

 ing over all problems relating to the dahlia 

 within the State of New Tersev. 



THE FLOWER SHOW 



M'O ONE could long be a pessimist in the 

 presence of such a splendor of flowers 

 as filled the Grand Central Palace at the 

 .Annual Flower Show. If Solomon in all 

 his glory was not arrayed like a single lily 

 of the field, what comparison is to be found 

 for the mas.ses of color which have been 

 made to blossom from like root and stalk 

 under human cultivation? Man has been 

 enjoined by the Great Teacher to forget his 

 anxiety about tomorrow and to fortify his 

 little faith by beholding how the wild flow- 

 ers are clothed. But the moral of the 

 Flower Show is that if man can in co- 

 operation with the Creator work such 

 miracles in the culture of flowers, what 

 ought he not to do in the cultivation of the 

 faculties of children or even in the improve- 

 ment of his own perennial self? 



But quite aside from the moral, the sheer 

 enjoyment of these flowers (which have 

 doubtless found their way into hospitals, 

 schools and the homes of the shut-ins be- 

 fore they were "cast into the oven" ) makes 

 for a paradisaical state so long as they last 

 and leaves a wholesome memory of color or 

 I>crfume that will last longer than the flowers 

 themselves. A flower show would be the 

 last place on earth in which to start a riot 

 or to lilaspheme an enemy. It was because 

 of this efi^ect of flowers in "destroying all 

 contaminations" that Buddha put first among 

 his seven shops in the "City of Righteous- 

 ness" and in the "Street of tlie Earnest Med- 

 itations" a flower-shop: for this was the list 

 of his shops : a Flower-shop, a Perfume- 

 shop, a Fruit-shop, a Medicine-shop, an 

 Herb-shop, an Ambrosia-shop, a Jewel-shop 

 — and a General-shop. 



Into the Flower-shop one is commanded 

 by Buddha to go and "buy a subject for 

 meditation." .And if there is one thing we 

 need in our Western urban life more than 

 another, it is that for which Buddha's 

 Flipwer-shop furnished delectable subjects — 

 meditation. So is "deliverance" promised 

 even from the muck and refuse of New 

 York streets, far from Eden and Buddha's 

 City, where children beg for tickets to see 

 the gardens, far more beautiful than the one 

 could have been in the midst of which our 

 scriptural ancestors were placed and from 

 which they were driven forth to earn their 

 bread in the sweat of their faces. Through 

 a culture of which the Flower Show gives 

 but the exquisite sinfile. man finds his way 

 toward another paradise. — Tlw Nc~lV i'or'k 

 Times. 



Range of V-Bar Greenhouses Built for 

 Mr. Emil Winlers, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



"One Good Job Begets Another'' 



To the National Association of Gardeners: — Greetings 



\\ bile at the Annual Convention of the Association you will have 

 a good opportunity to see for yourself why so many of the best 

 gardeners in the country recommend Lutton \'-Bar Greenhouses. 



In Pittsburgh and Sewickley we have built \'-Bar Greenhouses 

 tnr the following: 



Mrs. J. D. Lyous, Sewifkle.v, Pa.- -John Bamell. Gardener. 

 Mr. H. L. Mason, Sewickley, Pa.— James Murphy, Gardener. 

 Mr. E. A. Woods, Sewickley, Pa.— Henry Gibson- Gardener. 

 Col. J. M. Schoonmaker. Sewickley. Pa. — John Carman, Gardener. 

 Mr. B. F. Jones. Jr. Sewickley. Pa. H. Baumgarlen. Gardener. 

 Mr. W. S. Mitchell. Pittsburgh. Pa Rohl. I.adner. Gardener, 

 Mr. Emil Winter. Pittsburgh. Pa —Otto Rosl. Gardener 

 Mr. E. M. Herr, Pittsburgh, Pa 

 Mr. Geo. Mesla, Pittsburgh. Pa. 



1 he Lutton V-Bar type of greenhouse construction is the most 

 durable, lightest, strongest, most sanitary and efiicient type of 

 greenhouse built. There is a complete galvanized iron and steel 

 framework and the glass does not touch the metal but rests in 

 a cypress cushion and all condensation is properly taken care of. 



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As a specialist in water plants I shall be 

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Larqest Grower of Aquatics in America 



