May 29, 1920 



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BOSTON FLORAL SUPPLY & SNYDER CO. 



15 Otis- 96 Arch St. 



Wholesale Florists 



BOSTON, MASS. 



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Main tS14 

 Fort Hill lOM 

 Fort nlll 1084 

 Fort Hill KWS 



Largest distributors of flowers in the east. We manufacture artificial flowers, baskets, wire frame, etc.. right in our 

 own factory. We preserve our own cycas leaves. Try us out in one way or another. 



FUTTERMAN BROTHERS 



After May 1st. we are moving into larger headquarters on the op- 

 posite side of the street. 101 WEST 28th STREET. 



Consignments solicited Returns Daily. Payments Weekly 



Telephone Watkins 9761 



William F. Kasting Co. 



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 Sfi8-570 WASHINGTON STREET 



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BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Would like to handle consignments from growers of good 

 Snapdragon and novelties. 



HERMAN WEISS, Wholesale Florist 



55 West 26th Street, New York City 



New England Florist Supply Co. 



276 Devonshire Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



Telephones, Fort Hill 3469 and 31X5 



Open 6 a. m. to 7 p. m. 



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gestions, and often illustrated by 

 photographs seldom seen elsewhere. I 

 am led to write these words, because 

 I have before nie a copy of the bulle- 

 tin for April which contains a long list 

 of native plants suitable for the gar- 

 dens of Missouri and nearby states. 

 The particular list featured in this 

 issue deals with plants which will 

 grow in the water, in marshy places, 

 or wet soil. The list is a long one and 

 includes both trees, shrubs and peren- 

 nials. This information should be very 

 helpful to landscape architects and 

 gardeners. In the same issue is a list 



of woody vines and climbers suitable 

 for covering unsightly objects and for 

 adding .graceful touches to natural 

 plantations. Many other lists of plants 

 for various situations have been pul>- 

 lished in other numbers, so that the 

 file of the Missouri Botanical Garden 

 B\illetins is little less than an exhaus- 

 tive encyclopaedia. 



If the city of Minneapolis did not 

 have one of the finest public park sys- 

 tems in the country it would hardly be 

 in a position to issue a report such as 

 that which has just come to my desk. 



It is a splendidly illustrated, hand- 

 somely bound volume, issued by the 

 Board of Park Commissioners, and 

 covering the activities of 1919. Of 

 course, the city is specially fortunate 

 in having a man like Theodore Wirth 

 for its park superintendent, for Mr. 

 Wirth stands among the ablest men 

 of the country in his profession. It is 

 due largely to him that the Minne- 

 apolis park system has become famous 

 from one end of the country to the 

 other, and is commented upon with 

 enthusiastic commendation by every 

 visitor to the city. Anybody who is in- 

 terested at all in park work should 

 have a copy of this report. 



Let us all hope that the gardens of 

 Greater Boston will be on their best 

 bevahior the latter part of June when 

 the Garden Club of America meets at 

 Manchester, Mass., for on that oc- 

 casion scores of women who are famil- 

 iar with the best gardens of the coun- 

 try will be eager to see what this sec- 

 tion has to offer. I understand that 

 the club is planning a visit to the Ar- 

 nold Arboretum, Thursday, July 1. I 

 suspect that as a matter of fact the 

 Arboretum is one of the attrac- 

 tions which drew the members to Bos- 

 ton this year. It is rather unfortunate 

 that they did not have their conven- 

 tion a month earlier, so that they 

 might have seen the lilacs at their 

 best, but as it is there will l»e much 

 of beauty in the Arboretum to charm 

 and delight the visitors. 



Tomorrow, May 30, will be observed 

 as Lilac Sunday at the Arnold Arbor- 

 etum, which will mean the gathering 

 there of thousands of people provided 

 the weather is favorable. 



The cold wet spring delayed the 

 opening of the flowers but the early 

 days of June will see the general Lilac 

 collection at its best. The large part 

 of the Arboretum collection consists of 

 seedling varieties of the plant which 

 has been a favorite in gardens for 

 centuries, and to most persons the only 

 Lilac — the Syringa vulgaris of botan- 

 ists. It is now known that this shrub 

 came originally from the mountains of 

 Bulgaria and that it reached v/estern 

 Europe by the way of Constantinople in 



