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Meetings and Lectures in April 
1, 2. Fourth National Flower Show, Philadelphia, Pa. 
American Rose Society, Philadelphia, Pa.: exhi- 
bition at Fourth National Flower Show. 
3. New Bedford, Mass., Horticultural Society: meet- 
ing. 
Colorado Florists’ Club, Denver, Colo.: meeting. 
Retail Florists? Association of St. Louis, Mo.: % 
meeting. 1 
4. Buffalo, N. Y., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
Florists’ Club of Philadelphia, Pa.: meeting. 
Florists’ Club, Washington, D. C.: meeting. 
Knoxville, Tenn., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
Minneapolis, Minn., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
Pittsburg, Pa., Florists’ and Gardeners’ Club: 
meeting. ‘ 
State Florists’ Association of Indiana, Indianap- 
olis, Ind.: meeting. 
5. Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 
Kentucky Society of Florists, Louisville, 
meeting. 
5-12. intemnational Flower Show, Grand Central Eels 
ace, New York City. 
6. Marshfield, Mass., Garden Club: meeting. 
Chicago, Ill., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
Dayton, Ohio, Florists’ Club: meeting. 
Milwaukee, Wis., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
Terre Haute, Ind., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
7. Pasadena, Cal., Horticultural Society: meeting. 
8.. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.;. Horticultural Mssourayionl; 
meeting. |. 
10. Germantown, Pa., 
bition. 
Rochester, N? Y., Fierists’ Necoenone meeting. 
New York Florists’ €lub, N. Y. City: meeting. 
Park Garden: ‘Club, Rjushing, L. I. meeting. | 
Ky. i 
Horticultural Society: exhi- 
Tnternauonal Flower Show 
HE annual New York spring flower show, 
under thé direction of the Horticultural 
Society of New York ‘and the New York 
Florists’ Club, to be held at the Grand Central) 
Palace, April 5-12, will be remarkable for the 
great increasé in large group exhibits. Indeed, 
the management is much taxed to find appro-| 
pte) accommodation for late comers. s in, 
ormer years the ladies’ auxiliary will add to 
the general interest. This season the New York 
Chapter of the American Red Cross will have 
charge of the tea garden each day of the show 
gad “the proceeds “will be distributed as fol-, 
ows: 
Wednesday, April sth, Vacation War Relief 
Fund and the American Branch for French 
Wounded. Thursday, April 6th, American Am-| 
bulance Hospital Fund. “Fr iday, April 7th, Bel- 
gian Relief Fund. Saturday, April 8th, German! 
Relief Fund. Sunday, April 9th, Jewish Relief, 
Fund. Monday, ‘April 10th, Br itish American, 
War Relief Fund., Tuesday, April llth, Polish 
Relief Fund and Serbian Relief Fund. The 
chairmen of the various committees are Mes-, 
dames Wm. Prime, Jr., Ethelbert Nevin, Robert 
Cincinnati, Ohio, Florists’ Club:-meeting. 
Garden Club, New Rochelle, N. Y.: meeting. 
11. Syracuse, N. Y., Rose Society: meeting. 
12. Nassau County Horticultural Society, -Glen Cove, 
N. Y.: meeting 
Short Hills, N. i ; Garden Club: meeting. 
Morris County Gardeners’ and Florists’ 
Madison, N. J.: meeting. 
13. Albany, N. Y., Ilorists’ Club: meeting. 
Omaha, Neb., ‘Florists’ Club: meeting. 
St. Louis, Mo., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
Sccety, 
| 14. Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hartford, Conn. : 
meeting. 
, 17. Florists’ and Gardeners’ Club of Rhode Island, 
Providence, R. I.: meeting. 
18. Gardeners’ and Florists’ Association of Ontario, 
. 6th, EH. H: Wilson, 
Toronto: meeting. 
Gardeners’ and Florists’ 
meeting. 
Portland, Ore., Floral Society: meeting. 
19. Rhode Island Horticultural Society, Providence, 
R. I.: lecture and meeting. 
Tarrytown, N. Y., Horticultural Society: meeting. 
Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 
20. Marshfield, Mass., Garden Club: meeting. 
21. Pasadena, Cal., Horticultural Society: meeting. 
22. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Association: 
meeting. 
24. Park Garden Club, Flushing, L. I.: meeting. 
26. Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 
27. Minnesota Garden Flower Society, St. Paul, Minn.: 
meeting and lectures. 
28. Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hartford, Conn. : 
meeting. 
Club of Boston, Mass.: 
Bacon, Pierre Mali, Hugo Reisinger, Philip 
Lewisohn, Nicholas Murray Butler, lLinzee 
Blagden, Cadwalader Jones, Lady Herbert, Miss 
Hasting. The following lectures willbe ‘held: 
“Gardens and Plants’ of 
China and Japan”; 7th, George V. Nash, 
“Water Gardens” ; sth, Conference-on the ‘Out- 
look of Horticulture; Mr. Arthur Herring- 
ton will lecture at 11 a.m. Monday, A April 
10th, on “Irises for American Gardens,” illus- 
trated with colored lantern slides. General 
Leonard Wood, U. S. A., will speak on Pre- 
aredness, Apr il 11th; and on the 12th, Child’s 
Welfare League. Each afternoon and evening 
there will be exhibition dancing by members of 
the Russian ballet, exhibition roller skating, 
ste. Messrs. Lawrence G. White and Frederic 
R. King have designed the tea garden and are 
attending to the installation and decorations. 
*. New York Summer Show 
HE International Garden Club is to be con- 
gratulated in having taken the initiative 
in arranging for a summer exhibition of flowers, 
ete., June Ist to 4th at the Club House and 
grounds, in Pelham Bay Park, New York City. 
Tea Garden decorations at the International Flower Show designed by Lawrence G. White and 
Frederic R. King 
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