THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



Bobbink and Atkins, Rutherford, N. J. 

 Display of Taxus cuspidata capitata — ^$25. 



F. Heeremans, Elm Court Farms, Lenox, Mass. 

 Chrysanthemum — New and Meritorious Variety not in com- 

 merce — $10. 



N. Harold Cottam, Wappingers Falls, N. Y. 

 Collection of apples^ — $5. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



The Horticultural Society, in cooperation with the Garden 

 Club of America, gave a series of afternoon lectures on horti- 

 cultural subjects, at the American Museum of Natural History. 

 These lectures were given on the third Tuesdays of the months 

 of January, February, March, and April, and had an average 

 attendance of over two hundred people. The lectures and their 

 subjects were as follows: 



January 17th — Japanese Flower Arrangement — Miss Mary 

 Averill. 



February 21st — -The Arnold Arboretum — Mr. Loring Under- 

 wood. 



March 21st — ^Herbaceous Perennials — Mr. Henry E. Downer. 



April i8th^ — English Garden Methods — Miss Mary R. Jay. 



A resume of Miss Averill's lecture is printed in this issue. 



RESUME OF LECTURE ON JAPANESE 

 FLOWER ARRANGEMENT. 



Japanese Flower Arrangement is the only branch of Japanese 

 art that has no traces of foreign origin. Most matters of JaP" 

 anese art have come through China. Japanese Flower Arrange- 

 ment has been practised for centuries, but was brought to its 

 present-day form in the latter part of the fifteenth century 

 through Yoshimasa, who conceived the idea of representing 

 three elements in every arrangement of cut flowers, namely, 

 Heavens, Man, Earth; and from this has evolved the present 

 system. These principles take different names in the different 



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