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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
March, 19 ] 
Why Not 
^ , a real 
Hardy 
Garden 
from SEEDS ? 
The constant delights of 
hardy gardens may be yours 
for very little money. Spend 
just a little while each day 
with a vigorous lot of seedling 
plants and your desires for hardy 
plants will be easily fulfilled. We 
gather each year, partly for our own 
use, the freshest and choicest home- 
saved seeds of many hundred different 
kinds. These we will share with 
readers of The Garden Magazine. 
You Can Have a $100 
Garden for $2 — Postpaid 
We will mail one packet of seeds of 
each of 25 distinct and beautiful hardy 
perennial plants, all easily grown from 
seeds, for S2 or 1 2 packets distinct kinds 
for $1. .Among them you will find 
many popular favorites as well as some 
rare new kinds. These seeds, with rea- 
sonable care, should produce over one 
hundred dollars’ worth of hardy plants 
within a year. Should you want 
specific varieties name them or write 
for list of kinds available. 
“ Palisades Popular Perennials” 
is a 64 page portfolio of unusual character. 
Besides serving as an introduction to over a 
thousand distinct hardy plants, it describes 
them in easily understood language and gives 
their common names. It will prove a decided 
acquisition to any horticultural library. 
Serves. the beginner as well as advanced 
hobby-ist alike. The price is ten cents which 
amount may be deducted when ordering seeds 
or plants. Those who prefer to start hardy 
gardens with plants will find ours to measure 
up to the highest standards known, at rea- 
sonable prices. 
Write for catalogue TO-DAY or better 
still, let us mail you above collection of 
Seeds. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
Palisades Nurseries, Inc. 
R. W. CLUKAS, Manager 
Sparkill New York 
/O COMING EVENTS Q 
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Meetings, etc. in March 
(Following dates are meetings unless otherwise specified) 
10. 
12. 
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15 - 18 . 
15 - 22 . 
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21 - 25 . 
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Marshfield. Mass., Garden Club. 
Pasadena, Cal., Horticultural Society. 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, 
Mass. Lecture: Strawberry Culture. 
Garden Club of Myers Park. Charlotte, N. C. 
Subject: Insects and Plant Diseases. 
Lake Geneva, Wis., Gardeners' & Foremen's 
Association. 
Short Hills. N. J., Garden Club. 
Westchester. N. Y., & Fairfield, Conn., Horti- 
cultural Society. 
Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hartford, 
Conn. 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, 
Mass. Lecture: Cranberry Culture. 
Dobbs Ferry. N. Y., Horticultural Society. 
New York Florists' Club, New York City. 
Park Garden Club, Flushing, L. I. 
Rochester, N. Y„ Florists' Association. 
New Rochelle, N. Y., Garden Club. 
Nassau Co. Horticultural Society, Glen Cove, 
N. Y. 
Short Hills, N. J„ Garden Club. 
Lenox, Mass., Horticultural Society. 
Marshfield, Mass., Garden Club. 
St. Louis, Mo., Spring Flower Show Association. 
St. Louis Spring Flower Show. 
Horticultural Society of New York and New 
York Florists’ Club, New York City. Inter- 
national Spring Flower Show. 
Pasadena, Cal., Horticultural Society. 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston. 
Mass. Lecture: Orcharding in the West and 
South. 
New Bedford, Mass., Horticultural Society. 
Lake Geneva, Wis., Gardeners’ & Foremen’s As- 
sociation. 
Garden Club of Myers Park, Charlotte, N. C. 
Subject: The Vegetable Garden. 
Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club. 
Rhode Island Horticultural Society, Providence, 
R. I. 
Tarrytown, N. Y., Horticultural Society. 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, 
Mass. Spring Exhibition. 
Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hartford, 
Conn. 
Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Society. 
Park Garden Club, Flushing, L. I. Lecture: Art 
in the Cottage Door Yard Garden. 
Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club. 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston 
Mass. Lecture: Alpine Plants. 
New Plants Registered 
DY THE American Rose Society— Mrs. 
Chas. Gersdorff, a new climbing hybrid 
tea offered by Mr. Chas E. F. Gersdorff, 
Washington, D. C. 1 he plant is of strong 
climbing habit. Strong thorns not too thickly 
set. Flowers in clusters of two to four buds 
long. Color Killarney pink, shading to 
blush; tea fragrance. — B. Hammond, Secy. 
By the American Gladiolus Society. The 
variety Prosperity by Arthur Cowee, Berlin, 
N. Y. The following is a description: The 
plant is tall, most striking, and attractive. 
Its massive proportions, broad, heavy foliage 
of a rich green, erect, and vigorous habit of 
growth, give evidence of a strong constitu- 
tion. Flowers are large. Color is a bright 
rose shading to madderlake, except the last 
segment, which has a chamois-yellow base. 
Anthers violet, styles white. Unsurpassed 
as a keeper. — A. C. Beal, Chairman. 
The New York Annual Flower Show 
Peas 
one for Carnations; one for Sweet 
another for table decorations, etc. 'j| 
This arrangement insures a continuous 
interest, and visitors on different days find 
different attractions in perfection. The plant 
exhibits will be drawn from the leading private 
establishments around New York, including 
the collections of the New York Botanical 
Garden and of the City Park Department 
(Central and Prospect Parks). Noteworthy , 
contributions are also coming from some of I 
the larger private establishments of Phila- 
delphia. The Garden Clubs are contributing 
actively to the success of the event. Trophies 
are offered by Mrs. J. Willis Martin, President 
of the Garden Club of America, and by Mrs. 
Charles F. Hoffman, President of the Inter- 
national Garden Club of New York. 
The volume of exhibits bids fair to outclass 
any previous event; the space taken up by the 
trade section is larger than has ever been sold 
for any previous flower show held in America. 
Rose gardens and rockeries built on the 
ftoor of the exhibition hall, and which have 
formed such attractive features in previous 
shows, will be represented again on a more 
extensive scale. 
An effort is being made to arrange the 
plant exhibits in naturalistic groups and to 
reproduce, so far as possible, the appearances 
of tropical plants growing under natural 
conditions. The interest in the Rose and 
other special feature gardens will be aug- 
mented this year by a new scale of points for 
judging: 40 points to be considered for artistic 
design, general effect and accessories; 2q 
points for variety; 20 points for cultural 
perfection; 20 points for practicability. 
The Tea Garden feature, under the man- 
agement of the ladies of the American Red 
Cross, will be conducted on much the same 
lines as last year; the receipts of that feature 
being devoted directly to the objects of the 
Red Cross. 
The representative committee of man- 
agement is under the direction of Mr. T. 
A. Havemeyer, President of the Horticultural 
Society of New York as Chairman, with John 
Young, Secretary of the New York Florists’ 
Club, 54 West 28th St., from whom schedules 
and other detailed information may be ob- 
tained. 
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National Rose and Peony Gardens 
F LOWER lovers are being asked by the 
r\f HGrfiriilfnrtil I n Vf*Qticrnf inns 
npHE International Spring Flower Show 
is now firmly established as an annual 
event in New York. It takes place this 
year in the Grand Central Palace, March 
15th to 22nd, and as in previous years, is under 
the direction of the Horticultural Society of 
New York and the New York Florists’ Club, 
which two organizations are representative 
of the wider, general interests of the city and 
trade growers. As in former years, there 
will be the special attractions on the different 
days of the Exhibition — one for Roses; 
Office of Horticultural Investigations 
of the U. S. Department of Agriculture to 
contribute to the test gardens at Arlington, 
Virginia, just across the Potomac from 
Washington, Roses and Peonies of varieties 
not now represented in the Government 
collections. It is the hope of the Depart- 
ment to assemble at the Arlington gardens 
as nearly as possible complete collections of 
varieties of the two flowers. These collec- 
tions will be used for comparison and study 
of conditions under which they thrive best, 
and also as a basis for plant breeding work. 
At the present time approximately 700 vari- 
eties of Rose and 400 varieties of Peony are 
growing in the Arlington gardens. 1 hese 
represent about one-half the varieties of each 
of the flowers believed to exist in the l nited 
States. 
The Department of Agriculture is creating 
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