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HORTICULTUEE 



November 25, 1920 



$6,000 FOR APRIL SHOW 



Plans of Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society — Lectures at Each Exhibit 

 Albert C. Biirrage is now president 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, having been elected at the 

 annual meeting at Horticultural Hall. 

 Mr. Barrage, who has won wide fame 

 in the horticultural world by his ex- 

 hibits of orchids throughout the past 

 year, is a powerful executive, an ex- 

 cellent speaker, and thoroughly inter- 

 ested in horticultural matters. The 

 Society should prosper under his 

 direction. The other officers elected 

 are as follows: Vice-president, Thomas 

 Allen ; trustees for three years, Wil- 

 liam C. Endicott, Walter Hunnewell, 

 Thomas Roland and Mrs. Bayard 

 Thayer; nominating committee. OaUes 

 Ames, George E. Barnard, Wilton B. 

 Fay, Duncan Finlayson and Thomas 

 Roland. 



The trustees have voted to appro- 

 priate $6,000 for the April Rose Show. 

 If all plans are carried out as formed, 

 this will be one of the most notable 

 shows ever held in the country. The 

 American Rose Society has agreed to 

 co-operate in making the show an un- 

 equaled success, and no doubt the 

 large money prizes will prove a stim- 

 ulus in bringing to Horticultural Hall 

 some of the finest rose exhibits ever 

 staged there. During the year there 

 will be four shows besides the April 

 show. Doubtless there will be regret 

 in some quarters at this small number, 

 because many people feel that it is 

 better to have numerous small shows 

 which will arouse the interest of the 

 amateur. All the shows to be held 

 should be exceptionally good, however, 

 and the American Peony Society, as 

 well as the Massachusetts Gladiolus 

 Society will help in making them a 

 success. 



Attention should be called to one Im- 

 portant innovation to be featured at 

 the shows the coming year. Miss 

 Marian Roby Case, who has taken a 

 keen interest in the exhibits for sev- 

 eral years, has contributed a thousand 

 dollars to be used for lectures. These 

 lectures will be given in connection 

 with each show, the speaker being an 

 authority on whatever flowers are 

 featured at each exhibit. He will give 

 a talk at a specified hour, and possibly 

 will also act as docent in the exhibi- 

 tion hall at other times during the 

 day. It is believed that this feature 

 will add greatly to the popularity of 

 the shows, and help to increase the 

 attendance. Certainly it will be ap- 

 preciated by flower lovers and those 

 who are growing flowers. Of course 

 these lectures will not conflict in any 

 way with the regular series to be held 

 during the winter, and it is quite prob- 



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FOREST TREES 



Today I have been walking through 

 the woods at Hillcrest seeing all their 

 beautiful colors, the reds and tanny 

 browns of the oaks. The yellow of 

 the great sycamore by the brook, the 

 plum of the ashes, the golden glory 

 of the tulip tree, all set off by the 

 dark dense green of the red cedar. 

 Above all rose the forest of the stately 

 white pines. 



As I went among these trees 1 

 thought of how they resembled peo- 

 ple. No tree being quite true to type, 

 but each having its own idiosyncracy. 

 Most of their marks came from the 

 way they were forced to grow as chil- 

 dren in the forest, some were bent this 

 way, some that. Few trees were grow- 

 ing straight up in the air with their 

 full equipment of branches. 



Then came the thought of how much 

 more beautiful our forests are with 

 their great variety of trees, than are 

 the planted woods of Europe. The 

 natural growth of our forests show 

 the delight of the trees to grow as a 

 Californian from San Diego once said 

 of our wild flowers, "At home we can 

 plant flowers and make them grow, but 



in the woods of New England they 

 spring up from the very joy of ex- 

 istence." 



The woods of Hillcrest are surely 

 rich with the native flora from the 

 violets and moccasin flowers in the 

 spring to the pyrola and loosestritt In 

 the summer, and now we are encourag- 

 ing the perennial asters. 

 M. R. Case, 



Hillcrest Gardens. 



Weston, October 24. 



GENERAL NEWS NOTES 



J. Olesky has opened a new flower 

 store on Warren street, in Glens Falls, 

 N. Y. 



.lack Trepel has established another 

 flower shop at the corner of Flatbush 

 avenue and Lenox road, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. Mr. Trepel now has a remark- 

 able chain of flower stores, the new 

 one being the ninth controlled by him 

 in Brooklyn and Queens. 



Geo. B. Thomas, who recently passed 

 away in West Chester, Pa., at the age 

 of 83 years, was long a member of 

 Hoopes. Bro. & Thomas, the well 

 l.nown nursery concern in West 

 Chester. Mr. Thomas had many 

 friends in the trade who will be pained 

 to hear of his passing. 



