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MAGAZINE 
COMING EVENTS - 
May, 1916 
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LUB¢S@IETY NEWS. 
1. Colorado Florists’ Club, Denver, Colo.: meeting. 
New Bedford, Mass., Hort. Society: meeting. 
Retail Florists’ Asso. of St. Louis, Mo.: meeting. 
2. Buffalo, N. Y., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
Florists’ Club, Philadelphia, Pa.: meeting. 
Florists’ Club, Washington, D. C.: meeting. 
Knoxville, Tenn., Florists’ Society: meeting. 
Minneapolis, Minn., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
Lake Geneva, Wis., Gardeners’ & Foremen’s Asso.: 
meeting. 
Pittsburg, Pa., 
meeting. 
State Florists’ 
meeting. 
Kentucky Society of Florists, Louisville, 
meeting. 
Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 
. Chicago, Ill., Florists’ Club.: meeting. 
Dayton, Ohio, Florists’? Club: meeting. 
Milwaukee, Wis., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
Marshfield, Mass., Garden Club: meeting. 
Albany, N. Y., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
Garden Club of New Rochelle, N. Y.: exhibition. 
- Pasadena, Cal., Hort. Society: meeting. 
N. Y. Botanical Garden, Bronx Park: 
“Rock Gardens,’’ Richard Rothe. 
8. Cincinnati, Ohio, Florists’ Club: meeting. 
Park Garden Club, Flushing, L. I.: meeting. 
Germantown, Pa., Hort. Society: exhibition. 
Florists’ Club, Rochester, N. Y.: meeting. 
New York Florists’ Club, New York City: meeting. 
Springfield, Ohio, Florists’ Club: meeting. 
9. Syracuse, N. Y., Rose Society: meeting. 
10. Nassau Co. Hort. Society, Glen Cove, L. I.: 
meeting. 
Rose Féte at Roslyn, L. I. 
HE successful opening of Willowmere Rose 
Gardens last year in the interest of the 
American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly, 
France, has induced Admiral Ward to repeat 
the event this year. Although last year’s occa- 
sion was on very short notice, more than 1,200 
people took advantage of the opportunity to see 
this excellent Rose collection. Arrangements 
have been concluded for the opening of the gar- 
den this year on Thursday afternoon, June 8th, 
from three to seven o’clock, when the American 
Ambulance Hospital will again be the bene- 
ficiary. Tickets of admission, one dollar, may 
be obtained from Mrs. Robert Bacon, of West- 
bury, L. I. In case of rain, the garden will be 
shown the following day. 
Florists’ and Gardeners’ Club: 
Asso. Indianapolis : 
Ky.: 
of Indiana, 
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lecture, 
A Community Garden Club 
YERS PARK is a suburb built around an 
open park which has been a show place of 
Charlotte, N. C., for many years. The devel- 
opers have planted trees and shrubbery in every 
available place, and the restrictions as to the 
size of lots leave open spaces, inviting garden 
making. 
The Service Department of the Company 
gives a new family a year’s subscription to 
some attractive magazine pertaining to home 
building and gardening, and in the office are 
files of Country Life in America, THE GARDEN 
MAGAZINE, etc., which are kept for the benefit of 
any one who cares to read them. It was no- 
ticed that if any two ladies were together for a 
short length of time, they would be found dis- 
cussing Roses, or Hydrangeas, or peas or rad- 
ishes; and the much greater benefit to be had 
from discussing the subject in groups of twenty 
or thirty, instead of twos and threes, was ob- 
vious. So invitations were sent out for a pre- 
liminary meeting of a Garden Club. 
Between thirty and forty women responded to 
the invitation and the enthusiasm at this first 
gathering easily assured the success of a Gar- 
den Club. Miss Ethel Gowans, from the Bu- 
reau of Education in Washington, who was in 
Charlotte in the interests of school gardens, 
gave an interesting talk on “Planting the Home 
Grounds.” 
Organization is now complete. Mr. Earle S. 
Draper, the resident landscape architect, has 
given a talk on “The Care of Hardy Shrubs.” 
At one meeting every member was presented 
with catalogues from leading seed houses. Meet- 
ings take place twice a month, on the first and 
third Tuesdays, in the Service Department 
office, as the membership, numbering sixty-one, 
is too large to permit meetings in private 
homes. A separate chairman and acting secre- 
tary officiate at each meeting. There are three 
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Short: Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 
Morris Co. Gardeners’ & Florists’ Society, Madi- 
Meetings and Exhibitions for May 
son, N. J.: meeting. 
11. Worcester Co. Hort. Society, Worcester, Mass.: 
exhibition. 
Omaha, Neb., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
St. Louis, Mo., Florists’ Club: meeting. 
12. Conn. Hort. Society, Hartford, Conn.: meeting. 
13. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Hort. Society: meeting. 
N. Y. Botanical Garden, Bronx Park: lecture, 
“Trises for American Gardens,” Arthur Herring- 
on. 
15. R. I. Florists’ & Gardeners’ Club, Providence: 
meeting. 
16. Gardeners’ & Florists’ Asso. of Ontario, Can.: 
meeting. , 
Gardeners’ & Florists’ Club of Boston, Mass.> 
meeting. 
Portland, Ore., Floral Society: meeting. 
17. R. I. Hort. Society, Providence: meeting. 
Tarrytown, N. Y., Hort. Society: meeting. 
Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 
18. Marshfield, Mass., Garden Club: meeting. 
19. Pasadena, Cal., Hort. Society: meeting. 
20. N. Y. Botanical Garden, Bronx Park: lecture, 
“Valuable Plants Introduced from China,’” 
Frank N. Meyer. 
22. Park Garden Club, Flushing, L. I.: meeting. 
24. Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 
26. Conn. Hort. Society, Hartford, Conn.: meeting. 
27. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Hort. Society: meeting. 
N. Y. Botanical Garden, Bronx Park: lecture, 
“Plant Hunting in China,’”’ Prof. E. H. Wilson. 
Myers Park, N. C., Flower Show. 
31. Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 
short papers by members, and a general discus- 
sion of these by all present. Hach member is 
asked, if possible, to bring one flower from her 
garden, to stimulate interest and exchange of 
ideas. 
Another part of the work will be observation 
and recording of the blooming dates for flow- 
ers in this location, the Department of Agricul- 
ture having supplied the phenological blanks 
for the purpose. The last spring meeting, on 
May 27th, will be a flower show. 
SarRaw P. THOMAS. 
The Larchmont Garden Club 
HE Larchmont Garden Club has held dur- 
ing the winter a very interesting series of 
lectures on such topics as “Secrets of the Soil,” 
“Japanese Gardens,” “How Nature Makes Plant 
Food Available,’ “Insects,” “Hardy Shrubs 
and Evergreens” and the lecture this month on 
“Landscape Architecture in Home Gardens.” 
The officers for the present year are: President, 
Mrs. E. Levy; First Vice-President, Mrs. Linds- 
ley; Second Vice-President, Mrs. Hd. C. Griffin; 
Treasurer, Mrs. Herman Fougnes; Secretary, 
Mrs. Ellsworth Smith; Auditor, Mrs. Wm. 
Ackerman. The membership has increased con- 
siderably and a very helpful year is anticipated. 
ELEanor G. SmitnH, Secy. 
A Vigilant Civic League - 
4S Town of Troy, Pennsylvania, is situ- 
ated among the hills of Bradford County. 
The springs of these same hills furnish its 
water supply, which, while pure, was at times 
in the past inadequate, so that ground water 
supply, including the waters of a stream, was 
combined with the spring supply. 
In the fall of 1912 the heavy rains caused a 
deposition of sewage to pollute this stream and 
residents of the borough found themselves in the 
midst of a typhoid epidemic. The aftermath re- 
sulted in the formation of a vigilant Civic 
League. Our attention called thus forcibly to 
matters of sanitation, the extermination of 
‘mosquitoes and flies was begun. 
Heretofore tin cans, empty bottles and refuse 
generally, had been promiscuously thrown into 
the ereek which runs through the town. Gen- 
eral “clean-up” days were established, when 
ashes, cans. etc., were carried free from the 
premises of any one desiring to be rid of them. 
Alleys and the rear of business blocks were 
generally tidied and various old sheds removed. 
Fearing germ-laden dust, the streets were 
oiled by public subscription solicited by com- 
mittees. An open place in the square was made 
into an attractive triangle consisting of a flower 
bed, surrounded by grass edged with Privet, the 
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