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Horticultural ^ocietj? of J^eto ^ork 



INCORPORATED I902 



ROSES AND THE NEW ROSE GARDEN 



This is the title of a lecture delivered by Mrs. Max Farrand at 

 a meeting of the Society held on Saturday, February 17, at the 

 American Museum of Natural History. At four, the announced 

 time of the lecture, the hall was filled with an interested audience. 

 The speaker was introduced by the president of the society, Mr. 

 T. A. Havemeyer. Mrs. Farrand designed this new rose garden 

 which is to be located in a charming little vale just to the south of 

 the Mansion in the grounds of the New York Botanical Garden 

 at Bronx Park. As announced in this Journal in the issue for 

 August, 191 5, and again in that for May, 1916, the garden is to 

 be developed by cooperation with the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den, that institution to provide the site and to construct and main- 

 tain the garden, the Horticultural Society to provide the rose 

 plants. 



The lecture was illustrated with numerous lantern slides, de- 

 picting various types of roses, and methods of planting and 

 pruning. Other slides illustrated well-known rose gardens of the 

 Old World, and a number were used to make clear the location 

 of the new rose garden, the general plan of its beds and paths, 

 the enclosing fence, summer-house or pergola, and other interest- 

 ing features. Mrs. Farrand's lecture follows : 



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