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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1914 



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Fountains for Country Estates 



A FOUNTAIN is often the 

 ■**■ "piece de resistance" in 

 landscape architecture. 



Many of the show places of 

 the country are beautified by 

 our out-of-door fixtures. 



Consult our catalogues or 

 ask us to prepare special designs 

 for anything you require in 

 ornamental iron or bronze. 



We issue separate catalogues of Display Fountains, Drinking-Fountains, Electroliers, Vases, Grills and 

 Gateways, Settees, Chairs, Statuary, Aquariums, Tree-Guards, Sanitary Fittings for Stable and Cow Barn 



Address: Ornamental Department 

 THE J. L. MOTT IRON WORKS, Fifth Ave. and 17th St., New York 



Established 1828 







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FOR BETTER FLOWERS 



PLANT QUALITY BULBS 



We IMPORT to your order at lowest prices the very finest bulbs grown 

 in Holland's Quality bulb fields — they are sound, large and full of vitality. 



For Tulips — Narcissi— Hyacinths 



Our import plan is fully described in our catalog. Write for it NOW, as 

 ™ ■™"^^^™"'""™™^^^^^^^" all orders for fall delivery must be in our hands by July i. 



QUALITY BULB COMPANY 824 C. of C. Bldg., Rochester, N. Y 



Made to order — to exactly match 

 the color scheme of any room 



HAVE your fine rugs made to order, not 

 cheap stereotyped fabrics, made in unlimited 

 quantities; but rugs that are different and sold 

 only through exclusive shops. We are only too 

 glad to submit sketch in color to harmonize with 

 surroundings of the room. Woven in selected 

 camel's hair in undyed effects or pure wool in 

 any color tone.^ Any length, any width — seam- 

 less up to 1 6 ft. Order through your furnisher. 

 Write us for color card — today. 

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 Auburn, New York 



For Intensive Tillage 



Cut&w& 



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Disk Harrows and Plows 



A style and size for every farmer 



The Cutaway Harrow company 



Makers of the o 

 902 Main Street 



■igiual CLARK disk harroivs and ploivs 



Higganum, Conn. 



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Are you a lover of beautiful flowers? Have you a garden? If so, 

 you will be interested in the mission of this little card. 

 'JTTflP' ^^^fr^^irriS Here at "The Gardens" you will find a most wonder- 



^vlfflfraTJ ■ ful collection of hardy garden flowers, the IRISES. 



We make a specialty of this gorgeous and artistic flower, 

 having acres of them, many rare, all of them beautiful, over 

 500 varieties, gathered together from all over the world. 

 They thrive in all conditions of soil and climate, blooming from 

 March until August, beginning with the pumilas, then the won- 

 derful Germanica family, followed by the Spanish, English, Siber- 

 ian, Crimean, and wonderful Hybrids, and at last come the glorious Japanese Irises, 

 blooming in July and August, having flowers from 8 to 10 inches across. 



No garden is complete without a collection of these most popular of hardy garden 

 flowers. 



REMEMBER: They are fast becoming America's most popular garden fower. 



Plant them in August and September. 



Allow me to send you, free, my beautifully illustrated catalogue. A card will bring it. 



ERITH N. SHOUP 



"The Gardens" 



DAYTON, OHIO 



(Continued from page 304) 



Official Rose Testing Gardens 



The American Rose Society, through their com- 

 mittee in conjunction with a committee appointed 

 by the Society of American Florists, has started 

 two Experimental Rose Gardens, one in connection 

 with the Department of Agriculture at Washington, 

 D. C, and one at the College of Agriculture, Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, N. Y. The Rose Garden 

 Committee of The American Rose Society sent 

 out requisitions to rose growers for the Washington 

 garden, covering between 475 and 500 varieties, 

 totaling about 5,000 plants. This garden is 

 conducted by the Department of Agriculture, which 

 agreed to support it and to work in conjunction 

 with the American Rose Society in maintaining 

 it as a test garden for roses for America. Very 

 little has been done as yet with regard to foreign 

 roses, but we believe that when this garden is 

 once firmly established it will be a testing ground 

 for all foreign varieties, too. It is the intention of 

 the Department of Agriculture, we understand, to 

 give the results of this test garden to the people of 

 America in bulletins issued by that Department. 



The garden contains twelve plants of a variety 

 in all of the dwarf growing types, and three of a 

 variety in all of the Ramblers, Pillar roses, and 

 Rugosa types. 



The American Rose Society is also working in 

 conjunction with Cornell University. The garden 

 there is almost a duplicate of the one at Wash- 

 ington, the intention being to get a line on roses 

 for colder climates. The response to the requisi- 

 tions for plants has been very favorable, and the 

 success of the gardens is assured. 



Garden Clubs of America Meet 



A meeting of the Council of Presidents of the 

 Garden Clubs of America was held at Mrs. Archi- 

 bald D. Russell's residence, New York, during the 

 time of the New York flower show. 



The Second Annual Meeting of the Garden Clubs 

 of America was held at Princeton, N. J., on May 

 1 2th and 13th. 



The object of these affiliated clubs is to stimulate 

 the knowledge and love of gardening among 

 amateurs and to share the advantages of associa- 

 tion through conference and correspondence in 

 this country and abroad; to aid in the protec- 

 tion of native plants and birds and to encourage 

 civic planting. 



The Officers of the National Club are Honorary 

 President, Mrs. C. Stuart Patterson; President, 

 Mrs. J. Willis Martin; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. 

 Archibald D. Russell, Mrs. Alfred Ely, Mrs. 

 Walter S. Brewster, and Mrs. Francis King. 

 Secretary, Miss Ernestine A. Goodman; Correspond- 

 ing Secretary, Mrs. Bayard Henry, Germantown, 

 Philadelphia, Pa; Garden Consultants, Mrs. Max 

 Farrand and Miss Elizabeth Leighton Lee. 



A Metropolitan Garden Club 



The Staten Island Garden Club, organized on 

 the seventh of April at the picturesque old Austen 

 house overlooking the Narrows, promises to out- 

 grow its own limits before it is half the summer old. 

 Mrs. Albert Boardman, second Vice-President of 

 the International Garden Club, and President of 

 the Garden Club of Southampton, Long Island, 

 spoke at the initial meeting, outlining the general 

 scope and purposes of gardening organizations of 

 this nature. 



Meetings on the first and third Mondays of 

 every month during the early summer are scheduled, 

 with several timely exhibitions and shows that 

 promise great interest and instruction. At each 

 meeting a lecture is provided, the committee con- 

 sidering itself particularly fortunate in securing 

 Mr. Leonard Barron for the first of these. Nothing 

 could have been better calculated to inspire en- 

 thusiasm and the keen personal interest in gar- 

 dening which it is the aim of such organizations to 

 cultivate, than his talk on "Some Garden Prob- 

 lems." 



The officers of the Club are: Miss Alice Austen, 

 President; Mrs. Ernest Schefier, Mrs. George 

 Osgood Lord, Mrs. Walter Price, Vice-Presidents; 

 Mrs. Harry Alexandre, Secretary; Mrs. Ralph 

 Monell, Treasurer. Geace Tabor. 



