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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 
THE 
GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 
OF AMERICA. 
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 
President, Vice-President, Treasurer, 
W. N. CRAIG, THEO. WIRTH, JAMES STUART, 
Brookline, Mass. Minneapolis, Minn. Mamaroneck. N. V. 
Secretary, MARTIN C. EBEL, Madison, N. J. 
TRUSTEES FOR 1916. 
Peter Duff, Orange N. J.; William H. Dnckham, Madison, N. J.; William 
Turner, Bernardsville, N. J.; William Kleinheinz, Ogontz, Pa.; John F. 
Huss, Hartford, Conn. 
DIRECTORS. 
To serve until 1917 — Wm, Hertrick, San Gabriel, Cal. ; Robert Angus, 
Tarrytown, N. Y. ; Robert Bottomley, New Canaan, Conn. ; Alex. Fraser, 
Newport, R. I. ; Arthur Smith, Reading 1 , Pa. ; Thomas W. Head, Lake 
Forest, 111.; L. P. Tensen, St. Louis, Mo. 
To serve until 1918— William H. Waite, Rumson, N. J.; William J. 
Kennedy, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; Edward Kirk, Bar Harbor, Me.; John W. 
Johnston, Glen Cove, N. Y. ; Carl N. Fohn, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Peter 
Johnson, Dallas, Tex. ; Thomas Proctor, Lenox, Mass. 
To serve until 1919— John W. Everitt, Glen Cove, N. Y.; Thomas W. 
Logan, Jenkintown, Pa., Robert Cameron, Cambridge, Mass. ; James Mac- 
Machan, Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; A. Bauer, Deal Beachj N. J.; David Fraser, 
Pittsburgh, Pa.; George W. Hess, Washington, D. C. 
O FFICIAL ORGAN OF 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS 
P reside ii ! , Secretary -Treasurer, 
EMIL T. MISCHE, 
Portland, Ore. 
J. W. THOMPSON, 
Seattle, Wash. 
JOHN F. WALSH, 
New York, N. Y. 
Vice-Presidents, 
ALEX. STUART, 
Ottawa, Out. 
E. P. GRIFFIN, 
East St. Louis, 111. 
ROLAND W. COTTERILL, 
Seattle, Wash. 
L. P. JENSEN, 
St. Louis, Mo. 
EUG. V. GOEBEL, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Vol. XX. 
February, 1916. 
No. 2. 
FOURTH NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 
HP HE committees in charge of the Fourth National 
-*- Flower Show to be held in Convention Hall, 
Philadelphia, March 2? to April 2, report that the 
work in all departments is progressing favorably, and 
that the outlook for the success of "the greatest 
flower show ever held," as the Philadelphia press de- 
scribes it, could not be brighter. 
The trade is taking a keen interest and the growers, 
both commercial and private, it is expected, will be rep- 
resented by a larger number than at any of the previous 
National Flower Shows. There will be special days and 
New York Day, March 28, should prove one of the 
eventful days of the show. 
The Mayor of Philadelphia will designate the week 
of March 27 as National Flower Show Week. Several 
conventions of horticultural bodies will be held during 
the week in which some of the women's horticultural 
organizations will participate. 
The publicity committee is actively engaged exploiting 
the National Flower Show, not alone in Philadelphia, but 
in neighboring cities reaching from New York to Pitts- 
burgh. 
NEW YORK SPRING FLOWER SHOW. 
HPHE New York Spring Flower Show, which will 
-*- occur in the Grand Central Palace, New York 
City, April 5 to 12, promises to eclipse any of the 
former shows. There will be several feature displays 
of a magnitude never before attempted at an indoor 
show which will arouse much public interest. 
A large garden will be constructed under the auspices 
of the Red Cross Society, wdiere a different program 
will lie presented each day for the benefit of the war 
sufferers. 
As at the former shows at the Grand Central Palace, 
the trade exhibits will play an important part. A num- 
ber of firms, not heretofore represented at the shows, 
have taken space to exhibit this year. 
The joint committee of the New York Horticultural 
Society and the New York Florists' Club meets regularly 
and the reports received by it give every assurance that 
the 1916 New York Spring Flower Show will be even 
more popular than that of a year ago, which was so well 
patronized by society that it was classed as one of New 
York's leading society events of the season. 
OFFER TO AMERICAN GROWERS OF 
NEPHROLEPIS 
AT the Brooklyn, X'. Y., Botanical Garden there has 
■^ been assembled a collection of between sixty and sev- 
enty varieties of Nephrolepis; over fifty of which are 
named, as shown in the lists given below. The catalogs of 
English growers offer about forty additional varieties 
which the Garden has ordered for delivery in the near 
future. 
In addition to maintaining this collection for the pur- 
pose of scientific study, the Garden desires to make it 
of value to American growers of Nephrolepis, and 
makes, herewith, the following offer. Small plants or 
runners of any of the plants named will be furnished to 
growers interested in trying them out, as fast as a limited 
supply of stock plants will allow. Requests for informa- 
tion regarding any of the varieties listed below will be 
answered by the writer of this note as completely as 
available data will permit. Furthermore, the Garden is 
having reprinted the writer's article on Nephrolepis pre- 
pared for Bailey's Cyclopaedia of American Horticul- 
ture, and will be glad to send a copy of this reprint to 
any grower on request. This contains a general dis- 
cussion of Nephrolepis, with descriptions of all the varie- 
ties about which information was obtainable at the time 
it was written. 
In return growers are asked to send in any new forms 
which they may produce, and also any old forms, such 
for example, as Wittboldi, which has not yet been cer- 
tainly obtainable in the United States, although listed in 
the English catalogs. In connection with the Cyclo- 
paedia article, the writer will welcome and greatly ap- 
preciate notification of any mistakes or omissions, or 
other information pertinent to the subject. 
Eist 1. Varieties of A', exaltata of authenticated iden- 
tification (two or three exceptions noted), the stock 
plants having been obtained from their original sources : 
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