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DREER'S CONVENTION DISPLAY 



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We will have on display at the Conven- 

 tion, a full line of seasonable stock in 

 Kentias in both single and made-up plants, 

 Phoenix, Cocos, Ficus, Crotons, etc., all of 

 which will be well shown in a full line of 

 commercial sizes. 



Our representatives. Messrs. James J. 

 Karins and Joseph J. Goudy will be 

 in attendance and will be pleased to 

 meet our friends. 



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HENRY A. DREER, Inc. 



714-716 Chestnut Street 



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plicant for active membership must 

 provide the membership committee 

 with complete record of his gardening 

 experience and references as provided 

 for on the application blanks. 



Section 8. The executive board, or 

 Its authorized committee, shall have 

 the power of refusing to admit an ap- 

 plicant to membership, and shall be 

 empowered to expell from member- 

 ship any one guilty of unprofessional 

 conduct or other conduct, calculated 

 to reflect adversely on the associa- 

 tion. The executive board shall be 

 under no compulsion to give any rea- 

 son tor its action in refusing an ap- 

 plicant to, or expelling a member from 

 the association, either to the individ- 

 ual concerned or to the association. 



To amend Article 3. Section 1, by 

 making the dues $5.00 a year instead 

 of $3.00 a year as now provided. 



To amend Article 3. Section 3, by 

 making the dues for life membership 

 $50 in place of $25 as now provided. 



The following estate owners have re- 

 cently become sustaining members of 

 the association: Adolph Lewishon. 

 Ardsley. N. Y.: Joseph P. Day. Short 

 Hills. N. J.: Samuel Untermyer. Yonk- 

 ers. N. Y. Mrs. Henry C. Frick. Prides 

 Crossing. Mass.; Mrs. Payne Whitney, 

 .Manhasset. L. I.; Childs Frick. Ros- 



lyn. L. I.; W. H. Truesdale. Green- 

 wich, Conn.; Miss Grace E. Arents, 

 Richmond, Va. ; Mrs. William A. Read, 

 Purchase, N. Y.; John T. Pratt, Glen 

 Cove, L. I.; Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, 

 Oakdale, L. I.; Mrs. W. D. Guthrie. 

 Locust Valley, L. I.; Charles A. Sher- 

 man, Oyster Bay, L. I.; Mrs. R. M. 

 Thompson. Southampton, L. I. ; Miss 

 A. B. Jennings. Fairfield. Conn.; Mrs. 

 G. B. Douglas, Cedar Rapids. Iowa; 

 H. D. Roosen. Greenlawn, L. I.; Mrs. 

 F. W. Upham, Golf. 111.: Gov. R. L. 

 Beeckman, Newport, R. I.; Cleveland 

 H. Dodge. Riverdale, N. Y.: C. Oliver 

 Iselin, Glen Head, L. I.; Mrs. Harold 

 1. Pratt. Glen Cove, L. I.; Mrs. John 

 Henry Hammond, Mt. Kisco, N. Y.; 

 Mrs. J. A. Spoor. Pittsfield, Mass.; 

 CharCBs A. Bradley, Convent. N. J.; 

 Mrs. F. A. Constable, Mamaroneck, N. 

 Y.; Mrs. F. F. Prentiss, Cleveland. 

 Ohio; Mrs. Lewis L. Dunham. Madi- 

 son, N. J.; A. B. Dick. Lake Forest, 

 111.: A. Albright, Jr., Maplewood, N. J.; 

 Mrs. Coleman du Pont, Great Neck, 

 L. I.; Mrs. William P. Hamilton, Ster- 

 lington, N. Y.; Benjamin Stern, Ros- 

 lyn, L. I.; Mrs. Julius McVicker. 

 Larchmont, N. Y.; Otto H. Kahn. 

 V.'oodbury, L. I.; Pierre S. du Pont. 

 Wilmington, Del.; Prof. C. S. Sargent. 

 Mass.: Hubert T. Parson, West End. 

 N. J. 



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NEWS NOTES 

 The engagement is announced of .Miss 

 Cecelia Roth Gross of Hartford, Ct., 

 to Harry Quint, well known as a florist 

 of Boston, and now connected with the 

 Quint Tire Co. .Miss Gross is promi- 

 nent in Hartford society and her pic- 

 ture was published in the Hartford 

 papers in connection with the an- 

 nouncement of her engagement. 



Miss Edna Brown has opened a 

 greenhouse at New Lebanon, N. Y., 

 and is not only growing flowers but 

 some vegetable plants as well. 



Henry A. Wheeler, a resident of 

 Newtonville. and prominent as an or- 

 chid grower, recently passed away at 

 the New England hospital. He was 

 the head of the firm of Wheeler & 

 Co., conducting greenhouses in the 

 Waban section of Newton for the cul- 

 tivation of orchids and had grown a 

 great many rare plants 



Boston is to bloom out in its old- 

 time tulip display next year. It is 

 said that 27.500 bulbs for planting in 

 the Public Garden. Boston Common, 

 and other parts of the park system 

 have been contracted for by the park 

 department. The contract was placed 

 with Fottler. Fiske Rawson Company 



