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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1914 



IlliiilllH 



Porch 

 Shades 



Meet Your 

 Porch 



Half Way— 

 It'll Do 

 More Than 

 That for 

 Your 

 Health! 



Outside it's breathless ! Indoors it's 

 close with the stuffiness of deadened 

 air between walls. Move to the porch ! 

 Change it from a place where the glare 

 is to a place where the air is by 

 putting in 



vudor 



While other people swelter in dining rooms 

 you'll have appetite. While they toss in 

 bedrooms you'll sleep calmly. Your nerves 

 will be soothed, bathed into health by that 

 great nerve specialist, Pure Air. You'll say, 

 "Why didn't I think of that before?" 



Vudor Shades let people see out but not in. 

 They admit air but exclude heat. They last 

 — for their light, strong wooden strips are 

 lock-stitchcd together by fish-net twine that 

 won't rot. They're stained indelibly — not 

 painted. Their durability is enormously in- 

 creased by double warps at both edges, while 

 very wide shades have double warps at inter- 

 vals throughout their width. Vudor shades 

 measure a drop of 8 ft. when in use against 

 the 7§ ft. drop of most other shades. They sell 

 at a less price than the competitive shades 

 which lack Vudor Special features. Made in 

 all shades — to harmonize with the color of 

 your house. From $3 to $10 will probably 

 equip your porch. Send for samples for 

 bungalows — in special colors. 



Send for Booklet 



of Vudor Shades and Hammocks and name of near 

 est Vudor dealer. 



HOUGH SHADE CORPORATION 



255 Mill Street Janesville, Wis. 



Makers of the famous Reenforced Hammocks- 

 the only hammocks with reenforced 

 centers and double-strength end 

 cording. 



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Meetings and Exhibitions in June 



6-7. 



Elberon (N. J.) Horticultural Society: regular 18. 

 meeting. 



New Jersey Floriculture Society, Orange, N. J: 

 rose nieht. 



Short Hills (N. J.) Garden Club: regular meeting. 



"The Weeders," Haverford, Pa.: lecture on birds. 



Worcester County Horticultural Society. Horti- 

 cultural Hall, Worcester, Mass.: exhibition. 



John Bartram Association, John Bartram Garden, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.: meeting. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston: rhododendron exhibition. 



Horticultural Society of New York, Museum Building, 

 New York Botanic Garden: exhibition. 



Staten Island Garden Club, New Dorp, S. I.: regular 

 meeting. 



Nassau County Horticultural Society, Glen Cove, 

 N. Y.: rose show. 



Short Hills (N. J.) Garden Club: regular meeting. 



Worcester County Horticultural Society, Horticul- 

 tural Hall, Worcester, Mass.: exhibition. 



Connecticut Horticultural Society: regular meeting. 



American Peony Society, The Art Institute, Chicago, 

 111.: show (Subject to change on account of weather.) 



Dobbs Ferry Horticultural Association: spring ex- 

 hibition and regular meeting. 

 13-14. Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston: peony exhibition. 



Short Hills (N. J.) Garden Club: regular meeting. 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society, Young Men's 

 Lyceum: regular meeting and show. 



Oyster Bay L. I.) Horticultural Society: summer show. 



10 

 11. 



12. 

 12-13 



13. 



17. 

 17-18 



18. 



Worcester County Horticultural Society, Horticultural 



Hall, Worcester, Mass.: exhibition. 

 19. American Rose Society, Hartford, Ct. : meeting. 



19-20. Westchester (N. Y.) and Fairfield (Ct.) Horticultural 



Society, at Port Chester Hospital: summer show. 

 20-21. Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural 



Hall, Boston: rose and strawberry exhibition. 

 22. Staten Island Garden Club, New Dorp, S. I.: regular 



meeting. 

 23-25. American Seed Trade Association, Washington, D. 



C: annual convention. 



24. Short Hills (N. J.) Garden Club: regular meeting. 



24-26. Newport Garden Association and Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society, at residence of Senator George 

 Peabody, Bellevue Avenue: June exhibition. 



American Association of Nurserymen, Cleveland, 

 Ohio: annual convention. 



25. Worcester Horticultural Society, Horticultural Hall, 

 Worcester, Mass. : exhibition. 



26. Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hartford: regular 

 meeting. 



27. Dobb's Ferry Horticultural Association: regular 

 meeting. 



27-28. American Sweet Pea Society, Museum of Natural 

 History, New York: annual exhibition under 

 auspices of Horticultural Society of New York. 



Dates to be fixed in June depending on local weather condi- 

 tions: Hamilton Horticultural Society, Hamilton, 



Ont., Canada. 

 Germantown Horticultural Society, Library Hall, 



Vernon Park, Pa. 

 Ontario Rose Society, Toronto. 



Universal Exhibition of Trade and Com- 

 merce, spring, 1915. 



Foreign Fixtures Moscow, Russia: 



Belfast, Ireland: National Sweet Pea Society, July 24. 

 Berne, Switzerland Exhibition May 15 to October 15. 

 London, England: Anglo-American Exhibition at Shepherds Bush, May to October; Third International Congress on tropical 

 agriculture and forestry, June 23-30; R. H. S. Summer flower show, Holland House, June 30 July 1 and 2; National Sweet Pea So- 

 ciety, Royal Horticultural Hall, July 16; Metropolitan Exhibition, Royal Botanical Gardens, Regent's Park, July 7; Provincial Exhi- 

 bition, Bath, July it: Autumn rose show, Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster September 24. 



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

 clubs, etc., and especially as regards coming events. In order to ensure timely publication, the 

 information must reach the Editors by the sixth day of the month preceding the date of issue in which 

 the fixture should appear. 



The John Bartram Association 



On the occasion of the annual meeting of the 

 John Bartram Association, which will take place 

 in the old John Bartram Garden, Philadelphia, on 

 the afternoon of June 4th, a Gordonia tree is to 

 be planted. 



The Gordonia was originally discovered by 

 John Bartram, and the plant which is now to be 

 installed is a direct descendant of the original tree 

 which died some time ago. The present specimen 

 is supplied by Miss Haines, and is propagated from 

 a tree now growing at Cheltenham, Pa., which in 

 turn was propagated from the original tree secured 

 by John Bartram. 



Society of American Florists 



The annual convention of this representative 

 association of the allied horticultural trades takes 

 place in Boston, August 18th to 2 2d. A notable 

 feature and one that will be of interest to amateur 

 horticulturists generally is the outdoor exhibit, 

 or "convention garden." The success attending 

 the convention garden at Minneapolis last year, 

 induced the Society to adopt the scheme of estab- 

 lishing permanent convention gardens wherever 

 possible in connection with the annual meeting. 

 The City of Boston has placed at the disposal of 

 the Society, for this exhibition, ten acres of land 

 in the Back Bay Fens where the exhibits of con- 

 tributing firms will establish permanent growing 

 exhibits under the direction of Mr. J. B. Shea, 

 Superintendent of Parks. Gardening visitors to 

 Boston will find very much of interest in this dis- 

 play of growing plants, as it will embrace many 

 of the novelties of the current season. 



The Rose Society of Ontario, Canada 



In February of last year, a few rose enthusiasts 

 gathered together at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. 

 Allen Baines, Toronto, and founded a rose society 

 for Ontario. The object of the Society is to 

 further and encourage the cultivation, study, and 

 exhibition of the flower throughout this huge 

 province. The Society has met with marked 

 success; it is supported by all classes and the sum- 



mer exhibition this year, although the actual date 

 has not yet been fixed, bids fair to eclipse alto- 

 gether the splendid show, for a first attempt, of 

 last season. It is the intention of the Society to 

 hold also an exhibition in the fall, when many of 

 the best garden roses are in their richest beauty. 



Fourth National Flower Show 



The National Flower Show, the committee of 

 which Mr. George Asmus of Chicago was recently 

 elected Chairman succeeding Mr. Charles H. Totty 

 of Madison, N. J., has accepted the invitation of 

 Philadelphia to hold the next National Flower 

 Show in that city in the spring of igi6. This 

 organization is peripatetic in its nature, organizing 

 these large flower shows from time to time in 

 different sections. The very successful previous 

 efforts of the committee in Kansas City, Boston, 

 and New York have already been productive of 

 great results. Philadelphia is an interesting centre 

 from a gardening and horticultural viewpoint. 



Panama-Pacific International Exposition 



If the present plans are fully materialized, the 

 Department of Horticulture of the forthcoming 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco next 

 year will be on a scale quite unusual to efforts of 

 this sort. Mr. Charles A. Dennison, chief of the 

 horticultural division, made an extended tour 

 through the Eastern horticultural centres in 

 March and April, and concluded arrangements 

 for many Eastern firms to make exhibits at the 

 Fair. He also selected, as Superintendent of Horti- 

 culture, Mr. William Plumb, already well known 

 as a practical exhibition manager in New York, 

 and formerly President of the New York Florists' 

 Club. 



Among the dominant features of the Exhibition 

 grounds will be a great display of tulips — two 

 acres of space being devoted to this feature alone. 



Rose growers will be interested in the offer of 

 a $1,000 trophy for a new unnamed hybrid rose. 

 Four of the most renowned foreign rose originators 

 have already made entries that will total more than 

 one hundred contestants for this prize. 

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