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GARDEN’ MA CAZINE 
May, 1916 
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IV hat the Eneimeers are Dotng 
|] HIRTY thousand American engineers are mak- 
| ing a card index survey of American industry 
so that it may be prepared for its vital part in 
defending the Country, if need comes. The 
past eighteen months have taught us here in America 
what lack of industrial preparedness has meant to some 
of the countries now at war. These nations had the 
ships and they had the men; but when the hour struck, 
their factories were not able to furnish the colors with 
arms and shells and powder. ‘Their factories were not 
prepared. And our factories are not prepared. 
But it is not enough to draw a moral. In the United States five 
great Engineering Societies—Civil, Mining, Mechanical, Electrical and 
Chemical—have pledged their services to the Government of the United 
States, and are already working hand in hand with the Government to 
prepare industry for the national defense. They receive no pay and will 
accept no pay. All they seek is opportunity to serve their country, that 
she may have her industries mobilized and prepared as the basic line of 
defense. 
All elements of the nation’s life—the manufacturers, the business men, 
and the workingmen—should support this patriotic and democratic work 
of the engineers, and assist them cheerfully when asked. There can be no 
better national insurance against war. 
The Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, representing all ad- 
vertising interests have offered their free and hearty service to the Presi- 
dent of the United States, in close co-operation with these five Engineering 
Societies, to the end that the Country may know what the engineers are 
doing. The President has accepted the offer. The engineers have wel- 
comed the co-operation. 
This advertisement, published without cost to the United States, is 
the first in a nation-wide series to call the country to the duty of co-oper- 
ating promptly and fully with the Engineers to prepare industry for 
NATIONAL DEFENSE AND 
INTERNATIONAL PEACE 
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whole enclosed by a neat iron pipe railing. Some 
of us have since regretted the choice of Privet, 
Barberry being more satisfactory. 
The school directors caught the spirit of im- 
provement; they graded and seeded the school 
grounds, purchasing later adjacent lots for the 
playgrounds, and this last year increased the 
capacity of the building by a large addition to 
the building, to furnish class rooms accommo- 
dating the department of agriculture. 
Last year a Neighborhood Garden Club was 
tried out, its purpose being to codperate with 
the League and under its direction to bring 
about more wholesome conditions in the village, 
and to increase its,general attractiveness. 
Prizes were offered and awarded on a day 
known as Community Day to families who had 
kept their grounds about their homes in the 
most attractive condition.. Members paid a fee 
of twenty-five cents and entered the contest. 
The League duplicated the amount thus raised 
and prizes were awarded by three judges, who, 
jn a conscientious manner, visited the homes of 
the competitors at various periods. 
New York’s Spring Show 
Ae THESE pages go to press the New York 
Flower Show opens—an artistic achieve- 
ment far in advance of any previous flower 
show. Time compels this brief notice here, but 
next month the matter will receive further at- 
tention. 
A Garden Record Book 
ING was given at one of the recent meet- 
ings of the Greenwich Garden Club of a 
Garden Record Book which has been printed 
and is now ready for sale. It is about eight 
and a half inches long by five inches wide, with 
flexible leather or black oil cloth covers, and 
sells for two dollars and fifty cents. It con- 
tains a complete inventory of work accom- 
plished, implements, seeds, ete., bought and cash 
expended for a period of five years, under one 
cover. Space is also provided for notes, etc., on 
garden lectures attended. Members of garden 
elubs desiring this book should send orders to 
Mrs. H. W. Hamlin, Greenwich, Conn. 
A Women’s Conference in Boston 
HE third annual meeting of the Women’s 
National Agricultural and Horticultural 
Association will be held in cooperation with the 
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union at 
Horticultural Hall, Boston, on May 18 and 19. 
This conference is to cover a variety of sub- 
jects: “Preparedness in Agriculture,” “Devel- 
opments in Horticultural Training,” “Flower 
ardening for Profit,” “Trees and Hedges for 
Town and City Planting,” “Vacant Lot Garden- 
ing,” “Bees as Pollenizers,” “The Tree Rust,” 
“Color in the Garden,” ete. An interestin 
feature will be the “Garden Sale” of perennia 
lants, seeds, garden aprons, hats, buckets, 
Hewes glasses, and other garden accessories 
offered by the members of the Women’s Educa- 
tional and Industrial Union. 
The exhibit of members’ work of the Women’s 
National Agricultural and Horticultural Asso- 
ciation is in the hands of an able committee 
(Mrs. B. Hammond Tracy, Wenham, Mass., 
Chairman) which hopes to show by varied con- 
tributions ranging from garden photographs 
and pottery to butter, eggs, cream and honey, 
what this organization is doing along com- 
mercial as well as educational lines. 
Peony Show for New York 
HE annual Peony exhibit of the American 
Peony Society (to be held in conjunction 
with the Horticultural Society of New York), 
June 9th, 10th, 11th, will take place in the Mu- 
seum of Natural History. | 
Canadian Tulip Festival 
HE St. Thomas Horticultural Society, the 
largest in Ontario, will hold a Tulip Festi- 
val May 11th to 14th, under the auspices of the 
Ontario Horticultural Association. Visitors 
will be shown about the city where 160 public 
boulevard beds, containing 25,000 Tulips, have 
been planted by the Society. In the parks and 
private gardens, which will be open to imspec- 
tion, will be found 200,000 more. The exhibit 
of Tulips will comprise two hundred varieties. ‘ 
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