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and then the meeting adjounu'd at 

 8.15 P. .M . and all hied theiiiselvc3 to 

 the big show in the Grand Central 

 Palace. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Paterson (N. J.) Floral Society 

 at its meeting on April 5 appointed a 

 committee to prepare a schedule for a 

 show in June. 



At the meeting ot the Cincinnati 

 Florists' Societ.v on Monday evening at 

 Hotel Gibson, R. Witterstaetter, who 

 presided, gave an interesting talk on 

 the Philadelphia Show. 



At the meeting of the Lenox (Mass.) 

 Horticultural Society on Wednesday 

 night, April 12, J. Frampton read an 

 essay on "The early masters of the 

 garden art." This was Carnation .Night 

 and some nice exhibits were staged. 



The Chicago Florists' Club meeting 

 on Thursday, April 6, was uneventful, 

 the chief interest centering in thj 

 raffling of a silver punch bowl, which 

 was one of the prizes purcliased by 

 the Greenhouse Construction people 

 (or the last flower show, and was not 

 awarded. The lucky winner was A. 

 Benson. Downer's Grove, HI., formerly 

 orchid collector for Poehlmann liros. 

 Co., and now with J. H. Kidwell & 

 Co. Peter Kohl, of Morton Grove, and 

 t;dw. E. Schmeltekopf, Park ' Hridge, 

 was elected to membership. 



At the meeting of the Pittsburgh 

 Floiists' and Gardeners' Club on April 

 4th two blooming plants were shown, 

 one a Clarkia elegans and the other a 

 Schizanthus, each five feet high and a 

 mass of bloom, showing the wonder- 

 ful possibilities in these plants for 

 greenhouse culture. M. Curran, of 

 Sewickley, the exhibitor, received a 

 first class certificate for the Clarkia. 



Jas. Murphy of Sewickley received 

 a certificate of merit for calceolarias 

 and a first-class certificate for a new 

 snapdragon. Cultural certificates were 

 awarded to Neil T. Forsyth for For- 

 mosa lily, seven feet high, and Carl 

 Becherer, for a Gloxinia. 



As it is near the 25th anniversary 

 of the founding of the Club there 

 was some talk as to the proper way 

 in which to celebrate it. A banquet 

 held in connection with a chrysan- 

 themum show was one of the tenta- 

 tive propositions. 



Messrs. Falconer and Ludwig who 

 had attended the Philadelphia Flower 

 Show gave their impressions, which 

 were very favorable. 



H. P. JosuN, Sec'y. 



COVER ILLUSTRATION 

 The sweet little lady whose portrait 

 appears on our Easter cover, is the 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wem- 

 ple, of Albany, New York. Mr. Wem- 

 ple has been for many years in charge 

 of the oflice in the flower store of H. 

 G. Eyres on North Pearl St., Albany. 

 Little Elizabeth loves flowers. 



Admiral Aaron Ward has given the 

 use of his garden at Roslyn, N. Y., for 

 June 8 to the .American Ambulance 

 Committee for an entertainment in the 

 interest of the American Ambulance 

 Hospital at Neiully, France. E. H. Wil- 

 son, of the Arnold Arboretum, will lec- 

 ture on Roses. Last year on a similar 

 occasion enough money was made to 

 buy and support an ambulance for the 

 entire year. . Mrs. Robert Uacon is 

 chairman of the ambulance committee 

 in this country. 



OBITUARY. 

 Charles W. Ross. 

 Charles W. Uoss, for 25 years pre- 

 vious to 1914 street commissioner of 

 Newton and a former state highway 

 commissioner, died on April 11 at his 

 home in Newton Center. Mass. He 

 celebrated his G7th birthday a little 

 more than a month ago. He was 

 widely known as an authority on roads 

 and highways and in 1914, after 25 

 years of service, resigned as street 

 commissioner of Newton. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Rockland, Mass. W'. H. Wyman, of 

 North Abington, has acquired 30 acres 

 of land on Suninn^r street, which will 

 be devoted to nursery use. 



Toledo, Ohio — W. C. Knowles of 

 Portchester, N. Y.. has purchased the 

 greenhouses formerly owned by S. 

 Peek and will conduct them himself, 

 doing a general florist business. 



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