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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1919 



RUNNING 

 WATER 



THE New Deming 

 Marvel System 

 gives your home all the advantages of a city water system, 

 for less than a cent a day. Operated by gas, gasoline or 

 electrical power, it works automatically and needs no at- 

 tention. This new system brings you drinking 

 water, fresh, cold and sparkling, direct from 

 source of supply (not warm tank-stored water). 



Send for water supply booklet and select the system 

 best suited to your needs. 



THE DEMING CO., 308 Depot St., Salem, Ohio 



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SYSTEMS 



Silver Medal Iris 



Afterglow; F. C. C. Mass. Hort. So.; a 

 pink-or buff -gray, shading to a warm yellow 

 through the centre is but one of the seed- 

 lings for which we have received some 20 

 awards. List price $5.00, special $3.00. 



THE GLEN ROAD IRIS GARDENS 



GRACE STURTEVANT, Prop. 

 Wellesley Farms Massachusetts 



Send for catalogue 

 a?id Special Ever- 

 green Pamphlet 



HOW OUR EVERGREENS 

 ARE NURSED 



We have acre upon acre of them — perfect, vig-or- 

 plants. Continual cultivation at the proper 

 time, well-sustained fertility of soil, ruthless 

 weeding out of trees that do not develop as 

 they should, regular transplanting- to insure 

 adaptability to new surroundings — these 

 combine to produce plants of surpris- 

 ing vitality and hardihood. They are 

 bound to "take" to almost any environ- 

 ment and grow into sturdy, orna- 

 mental trees. 



We have been growing such trees 

 for more than a century with singu- 

 -_ lar success, till we have over 8oo 

 j acres and many friends who ap- 

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 ■.; n^ver regret buying- from us, be- 

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 Flushing, L. I. New York 



Tropical Water Lilies 



Among the most beautiful are Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 

 Panama-Pacific, Wm. Becker, and Mrs. E. B. Bedford, 

 all prize winning varieties, but my general list of tender Lilies 

 includes all the varieties of worth, both in day and night 

 bloomers. I also grow many hardy varieties for pools and 



ponds. All easily grown, needing only water, sunshine and a 



little soil. 



Write to-day for booklet listing these wonderful plants for the 

 ^ aquatic garden. I will be glad to assist you in your plans. 



William Tricker, Box E, Arlington, New Jersey 



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THE GREENHOUSE BEAUTIFUL 



Whether large or small — a greenhouse adds to any grounds an atmosphere I 

 of distinction. To insure this to the fullest degree the structure must be I 



"right" in every detail as in every essential. Built on such a standard 



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Foley Greenhouses 



To-day lead in reputation for true worth. Scientifically planned ; 

 — carefully made and skillfully erected — they give owners the f 

 greatest measure of satisfaction. Write for your copy of book 

 "The Greenhouse Beautiful" — It is full of suggestions and proofs. 



THE FOLEY GREENHOUSE MFG. CO., 



180 N. STATE ST. CHICAGO 



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yO COJtCINq EVENTS _. 



(^LUB & SOCIETT ^(EWjS 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 



Officers for the year 1919: President, James 

 Boyd; Vice-Presidents, Robert Craig, Henry F. 

 Michell, William Kleinheinz, J. Otto Thilow;. 

 Treasurer, Sidney W. Keith; Secretary, David 

 Rust. 



Meetings of the Society are held on the 3rd 

 Tuesday of each month, except July and August 

 at 3:30 p.m. at Griffith Hall, 1420 Chestnut 

 Street, Philadelphia. 



Exhibitions for 1919: Peonies, Out Door 

 Cut Flowers, and Hybrid Tea Roses, at Fire- 

 mans' Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa., June 3rd and 4th. 

 Sweet Peas, Hardy Perennials, Hybrid Perpet- 

 ual Roses, at the Jenkintown Club and Reading 

 Room, Jenkintown, Pa., June 24th and 25th. 

 Dahlias, Out Door Cut Flowers, Vegetables, at 

 Masonic Hall, Ardmore, Pa., September 16th 

 and 17th. 



Annual Chrysanthemum Show, at the First 

 Regiment Armory, Broad and Callowhill Sts., 

 Philadelphia, November 5th to 8th, inclusive. 

 At all the Exhibitions, prizes are offered for vege- 

 tables for the School Gardens and War Gardens. 



New York Botanical Garden 



Spring Lectures, 1919. Free Public Lectures 

 will be delivered in the Lecture Hall of the 

 Museum Building of the Garden, Bronx Park, 

 Saturday afternoons, at four o'clock, as follows: 



May 3. "Evergreens," by Mr. G. V. Nash. 

 May 10. "Plant Hybrids: How Produced:: 

 Their Uses," by Dr. A. B. Stout. (Exhibition 

 of Flowers, May 10 and 11). May 1.7. "The 

 Future of American Forestry," by Prof. J. W. 

 Tourney. May 26. "The Recognition of 

 Medicinal and Poisonous Properties in Unknown 

 Plants," by Dr. H. H. Rusby. May 31. "Floral 

 and Scenic Features of the Panama Canal 

 Zone," by Dr. M. A. Howe. June 7. "The 

 Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg, Java," Dr. H. 

 A. Gleason. (Exhibition of Roses and Peonies, 

 June 7 ana 8). June 14. "Destructive In- 

 sects," by Dr. F. J. Seaver. 



The lectures, which occupy an hour, will be 

 illustrated by lantern slides and otherwise. 



American Peony Society 



The annual meeting of this progressive organiza- 

 tion for this year will be held at Detroit, Mich. The 

 exact date is yet to be fixed; but, of course, it will 

 be in the season of bloom and may be assumed as 

 being somewhere about the middle of June. Any- 

 one interested should communicate with the 

 secretary, Prof. A. P. Saunders, Clinton, N. Y.,. 

 who will be pleased to send definite information 

 when the time is fixed. 



American Rose Society 



The twentieth annual meeting was held at 

 Hotel Breslin, New York City, April 2. Presi- 

 dent Hammond in his annual report reviewed 

 briefly the development of the Society during 

 the twenty years of its existence, and emphasized 

 the broadened interest in Rose growing which 

 has resulted during the period. The Secretary 

 reported a membership, April 1st, of 1203, and 

 the Treasurer reported a balance of $2137.58. 

 The election of officers resulted as follows: 

 President, Captain George C. Thomas, Chestnut 

 Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.; Vice-President, F. L. 

 Atkins, Rutherford, N. J., Treasurer, Harry O. 

 May, Summit, N. J.; Secretary, Prof. E. A. 

 White, Ithaca, N. Y. Members of the Exe- 

 cutive Committee for three years, Robert Pyle, 

 West Grove, Pa.; George H. Peterson, Fair 

 Lawn, N. J.; James Boyd, Haverford, Pa. 



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