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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1915 



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/ That a 

 /set of 

 / beautiful 

 "Homer 

 y/ Laughlin" 

 China will go 

 farther toward 

 making your dining 

 room more attractive and 

 inviting than will anything 

 else costing a like amount. 

 To act upon this good resolution is to 

 find how inexpensive this beautiful Din - 

 nerware really is. You will find that 

 the better class of dealers everywhere 

 feature and recommend it. All open 

 stock patterns — an unusually wide 

 range of selection. 



HOME HjAUGHUN 

 China 



Made in America in the world's larg- 

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 glaze is made that it is proof against the 

 innumerable tiny cracks and chips 

 which render table ware so unsightly 

 and insanitary. The designs, done in 

 artistic colors and gold, are of a lasting 

 character. 



The trade mark Homer Laughlin" 

 on the under side of each dish is your 

 guarantee of lasting satisfaction. 



"The China Book," an art brochure 

 in eleven colors, sent free to house- 

 keepers. Send for your copy. 



The Homer Laughlin ^"CT 



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China Co., 

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Frances Duncan's "Gardencraft ' 



Miss Duncan is an inventor and a gardener as well as a 

 writer. "Gardencraft" is the result of long experience in 

 the gardener's problem of making clear to a person who 

 cannot visualize how a garden will look when it is not yet 

 made. In this it is wonderfully successful. Proposed 

 changes can not only be seen in miniature, but photo- 

 graphed accurately. 



SIMPLE ENOUGH TO DELIGHT A CHILD 



SCIENTIFIC ENOUGH TO BE OF PRACTICAL 



VALUE TO THE GARDENER 



If you wish to represent Civic Improvements, Chil- 

 dren's Gardens, Proposed Buildings — anything else 

 in miniature, write to the GARDENCRAFT WORK 

 SHOP, 1 Milligan Place. (6th Ave. bet. ioth and nth 

 Sts.), New York City. Send 4c for catalogue. 



Meetings and Exhibitions in January 



Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hartford, Conn.: regular 15. 



meeting. 20. 



Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Society: regular meeting. 21. 

 Rochester Florists' Association, Rochester, N. Y.; regular 



meeting. 22. 



Nassau County Horticultural Society, Glen Cove, N. Y.: 



meeting. 22. 



International Garden Club, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia 



University, N. Y. City: annual meeting and lecture on 

 "Trees". 



Pasadena, Calif., Horticultural Society: meeting. 

 Tarrytown, N. Y., Horticultural Society: meeting. 

 International Garden Club, Gymnasium, The Colony Club, 



N. Y. City: lecture "Insects and Soil". 

 Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hartford, Conn.: regular 



meeting. 

 Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Association: meeting. 



Note: The Editors will be grateful for information about the doings of horticultural societies, 

 garden clubs, etc., and especially as regards notices of coming events to be announced in this de- 

 partment. In order to ensure timely publication, the information must reach the Editors not later 

 than the twelfth day of the month preceding the date of issue in which the notice should appear. 



A New Ger*anium and Five Cannas 



THE department of plant registration of the Society 

 of American Florists and Ornamental Horticul- 

 turists states that Charles Borrman, Buffalo, N. Y., 

 has registered a seedling geranium, La Favorite x 

 Detroit. Its color is the same shade as Bridesmaid 

 Rose; it is of dwarf habit; the leaves are stocky and 

 have a deep zone. 



The following cannas have also been registered by 

 the Conard & Jcnes Co., of West Grove, Pa.: 



Pocahontas (Bronze Olympic). The large, red 

 flowers are borne on firm, upright stems, just enough 

 above the foliage to show the entire head. The foliage 

 itself is a dark bronze-green with emerald shadings, 

 the ribs a darker bronze. Single roots cf this canna 

 will produce from five to twelve bloom-stalks in a 

 season, and each stalk makes two or three heads, with 

 from twenty to thirty perfect flowers on each. A truly 

 magnificejit sort. An early and continuous bloomer. 

 Height, 4^ feet. 



Flag of Truce. A large flowered, green-leaved, 

 cream-white canna with faint pink dots on each petal 

 and sulphur-colored tongue. When a short distance 

 from the flowers they appear pure white. The heads 

 average eight to twelve blooms on each, and each 

 bloom-stalk generally has three heads of flowers, which 

 bloom in succession, thus keeping the plant in bloom 

 all the time. Height, 4 feet. 



Dragon. If it were not for Beacon, this canna would 

 be in a class by itself. It blooms incessantly and keeps 

 sending up new bloom-stalks about every week, until 

 cut down by frost. Dark ox-blood red, and especially 

 suitable for mass planting. Height, 3 to 4 feet. 



Princeton. An intense bright yellow flower with a 

 decided dash of red in the throat, extending well up on 

 the petals and showing also on the tongue. Its prin- 

 cipal value lies in its ability to resist bleaching better 

 than any other yellow canna. It flowers early. Height, 

 3 to 4 feet. 



Gaiety. Is a reddish orange, mottled with carmine 

 and edged with yellow. The tongue is yellow and 

 densely spotted with carmine. When planted in solid 

 beds or rows it produces a dazzling effect. Height, 

 S feet. 



The International Garden Club 



A RECENT interesting event was the acquisition 

 i\ by the International Garden Club of the Bartow 

 Mansion, and twenty-five acres of land on Pelham Bay 

 Sound, for their use as club house and experimental 

 garden. Until the house is ready for occupancy, 

 which will be in April, the club's meetings and lectures 

 will be held at Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia Univers- 

 ity, and at the Colony Club, New York. 



The International Garden Club will cooperatewith 

 other garden and horticultural societies, and will be 

 affiliated with foreign organizations. Small monthly 

 exhibitions cf flowers and plants are to be held, and 

 women desiring to become teachers in the public 

 school gardens, will be admitted free to the Club's 

 gardens to study under the superintendent. 



A Garden Club in Ohio 



OUR particular branch of the Garden Club of 

 America came into existence about three years 

 ago. The gardens of the different members are shown 

 during the summer, several in May and June, and later, 

 not more than one a month. In the winter, lectures 

 are given on such subjects as annuals, perennials, bulbs, 



roses, preparation of the soil, shrubbery, garden 

 planning, and color schemes. 



We have bought a lantern and whenever a lecturer 

 has pictures we show them. Also a stenographer takes 

 notes and afterward for a small sum, the members may 

 buy the lecture and preserve the ideas in enduring form. 



At the suggestion of one of our members, each person 

 has taken an annual, perennial, shrub, or vegetable, 

 choosing from the different catalogues as nearly as 

 possible all the varieties of that one thing. They are 

 then tried out under the same conditions of soil, 

 temperature and handling, to discover which are really 

 the best. When the observations are completed they 

 will be sent in and put together for our mutual benefit. 

 It is always hard for the ordinary amateur to decide 

 what to order from a catalogue, as each item is labelled 

 "superlatively good" and this system will prevent 

 much confusion. 



In the autumn when changes are made in the garden, 

 a great many plants always have to be divided. It 

 often happens that there is no room for them and they 

 are burned. This seems an economic waste so we 

 decided to give the surplus to different charitable 

 organizations to pass along to poor people who would 

 enjoy them and with whom they were in touch. The 

 Home Gardening Association, the Associated Charities, 

 the Public Schools and others, gladly accepted all 

 we could send. 



June is the month selected for our Annual Flower 

 show, as more perennials flower then, than at any other 

 season. The last one was eminently successful. It 

 was held at one of our country clubs, a committee 

 taking charge of the affair. The year before the show 

 was held out-of-doors, and a sudden thunder storm 

 threw everything into dire confusion, and made us 

 vow forever after to have it in a water tight building. 



A manufacturer of garden furniture, lattice, sun 

 dials and such accessories was delicately approached 

 to see if he would like to exhibit his goods at our show, 

 thereby decorating the ballroom where we wished to 

 have the display. Our man responded cordially and 

 aided us to make a truly charming scene. A white 

 fence, agate with seats on each side enclosed in lattice 

 and an artistic top shut off the room from the rest of 

 the clubhouse. Down the centre was a pergola, in the 

 corners, garden seats, and lattice against the walls to 

 form a background for the exhibits. Everywhere we 

 had flowering shrubs and vines so that there might 

 be no bare spots. Tables and boxes were covered 

 with brown cloth to simulate earth, and all exhibits 

 placed on them in green pottery vases. 



Too many prizes, like too many cooks, spoil the 

 broth, so we have limited ourselves to two silver cups 

 for roses in different classes, a President's cup for 

 whatever she chooses, two club prizes for artistic 

 arrangement, and ribbon awards for everything else. 

 Each person was allowed to invite two friends and at 

 the end of the afternoon a popular vote was taken for 

 the most artistic arrangement. A competitor could 

 use any flower or shrub so long as it grew in her own 

 garden. No names were attached and as the public 

 did not know who had conceived the different creations, 

 there were no politics and the best man won! All 

 the other classes were judged in secret session by the 

 expert nurserymen within a radius of thirty miles, 

 thereby preventing any complaints of favoritism. 



An annual show certainly stimulates interest in 

 gardening. Human nature being what it is, most of 

 us like to have it known that we grow the finest Canter- 

 bury bells or the tallest larkspur. 



Cleveland Ohio. Kate B. Burton. 



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