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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
May, 1915 
Improving Your 
Home Grounds 
Let us aid you to solve vexing problems 
as to plans, surveys, landscape work, 
spraying, for- 
estry, planting, 
tree and shrub 
pruning. We 
will gladly an- 
swer any ques- 
tion without 
obligation t o 
you. 
The half cen 
tury of success 
of the Meehan 
organization in 
all garden work assures you expert 
advice or service. 
W rite to us for information as to your needs 
THOMAS MEEHAN & SONS 
Landscape Gardeners & Engineers, Tree Experts 
MT. AIRY 7106 Germantown Avenue PHILADELPHIA 
Special Offer “Lilies” for 
Larger Planting 
12 
100 
L. AURATUM 
$2.00 
$12.00 
/ L. ROSEIIM 
2.00 
12.00 
L. ALBUM 3.00 
f L. CROCEUM, gorgeous gold 
18.00 
tint, shot scarlet. . 
1.50 
10.00 
L. UMBELLATUM. . 
1.50 
10.00 
L. TENUIFOL ... 
1.25 
8.00 
L. CANADENSE . . . 
1.25 
8.00 
Price includes delivery. FULL directions HOW to 
grow LILIES, sent with every order. 
SEND for our 19 15 SPRING GARDENBOOK 
Full of GARDENLORE 
H. H. BERGER & CO., 70 Warren St., New York City 
NEW DAHLIAS 
We wish every reader of Garden 
Magazine could have seen our New 
Dahlias for 1915 in bloom last Septem- 
ber and October. They were the last 
word in their classes. Many offered 
now for the first time and by us ex- 
clusively. We are the largest Dahlia 
growers in the world (120 acres of 
Dahlias last year). Send for our 
new Descriptive Dahlia Catalogue ‘‘The 
IVorld’s Best Dahlias” containing ac- 
curate descriptions and the plain truth 
about the best Dahlias that bloom. 
Beautifully illustrated, showing the 
remarkable new Paeony Dahlia “John 
Wanamaker” in natural colors — the 
leading American Dahlia Catalogue. 
PEACOCK DAHLIA FARMS 
BERLIN NEW JERSEY 
and dooryards; preservation of birds; preservation of 
wild flowers, shrubs, and trees; cooperation with local 
horticultural and agricultural associations and county 
fairs and with professional gardeners; the establishment 
of acolor standard; civic planning and planting; destruc- 
tion of pests, such as the tent caterpillar, etc.; seed and 
plant testing for local conditions; and cooperation and 
correspondence with other organizations, and individ- 
ual authorities in America and Europe. A number of 
books are usually kept by the secretary or librarian as a 
club library for the use of members, and catalogues of 
domestic and foreign dealers are also kept on hand, and 
magazines subscribed for. 
These remarks apply to the “less wealthy” branch of 
this group. The clubs of the “more wealthy” division 
work along the same lines, with the added advantage of 
more money with which to accomplish their ends. 
Prizes are perhaps more numerous and costly; more 
speakers can be obtained — not always necessarily 
better ones, but at least more with illustrated talks, and 
perhaps more famous ones; more and better books can 
be kept in the club library; and with the advantage of 
greenhouses and skilled gardeners experimental work 
of every kind more fully carried out, from plant breed- 
ing, to the planting of wonderful wild and woodland 
gardens on large estates. But it is pleasing to note, 
especially in the West, the absence of a patronizing air 
in the clubs of this division. The “less wealthy” 
share, and the “more wealthy” give collectively and 
individually, with a true spirit of friendliness and a free- 
dom from self consciousness, which is one of the most 
charming and hopeful signs of the real good that the 
garden clubs are doing. 
Garden City, L. I. Mary Youngs. 
(Editors Note: The third article in this series will appear in the 
June issue]. 
New York Fall Flower Show 
T HE Horticultural Society of New York announces 
that its annual exhibition will be held in the 
American Museum of Natural History, New York 
City, on November 4 to 7, inclusive. 
Chrysanthemum Society Meetings 
T HE annual meeting of the Chrysanthemum Society 
of America takes place at Cleveland, Ohio, Nov- 
ember 10,1915, and the annual exhibition, in conjunc- 
tion with the Cleveland Florists’ Club, will be held 
November 10th to 14th, 1915. An exhibition of chry- 
santhemums under the auspices of the Chrysanthemum 
Society of America, in conjunction with the Pacific 
Coast Horticultural Society and the Department of 
Horticulture of the Panama-Pacific International Ex- 
position will be held at the Palace of Horticulture, Ex- 
position Grounds, in San Francisco, the date and 
details to be announced later. 
A list of the prizes to be awarded on both these 
occasions has been issued and may be had upon appli- 
cation to Charles W. Johnson, Secretary of the Society, 
Morgan Park, 111 . 
Another Garden Club 
A NOTHER garden club has recently been organized 
in Milwaukee, Wis., the president and leading spirit 
in the organization being Mrs. Roger Yale Flanders. 
The Queen of the Belgians Cattleya 
T HE plant which is illustrated on the front cover 
of this month’s magazine and to which the name 
“Queen of the Belgians” has been given, is an inter- 
esting form of what is known in gardens as Cattleya 
Schroederae, which itself is one of the forms of the very 
well known Cattleya Trianae. The flowers of Schroe- 
der’s cattleya and its varieties are fragrant, and gener- 
ally show a delicate blush faintly suffused with white 
on both sepals and petals. The sepals and the broader 
lip are very much crisped, and in this particular va- 
riety, Queen of the Belgians, there is an almost lumin- 
ous metallic sheen in the high lights which makes the 
flower very striking. The markings in the throat are 
very distinct, too. The petals of Queen of the Bel- 
gians show a distinctly lilac color. 
This plant was grown by Mr. Clement C. Moore, 
the orchid fancier of Hackensack, N. J., and was pre- 
sented by him to the Red Cross Committee working 
in connection with the recent New York Flower 
Show. The plant when sold increased the revenues of 
the Red Cross by $1,000. In all the amount of money 
received by the Relief Committees in connection with 
the Flower Show amounted to over $5,000. 
Beautiful Water Lilies 
in the Home Garden—— 
You can grow them in a tub, half-barrel, or concrete pool, 
in the open sunlight. The varieties I offer are easily cared 
for; success is almost certain if you follow the simple rules 
given in my book 
“The Water Lily” 
a brochure illustrating many rare sorts, with full description of the familiar 
varieties. Full directions are given 
for garden culture as well as 
for pond planting. Write 
today for the booklet which 
will be sent to any one 
who writes for it. 
William Tricker 
IVater-Lily 
Specialist 
Box E 
Arlington, 
N. J. 
IO RARE DAHLIAS 
FOR $1.00 
F OR 10 years I have been growing Dahlias as a hobby, 
trying the novelties every year and rigidly discarding 
all but the very best. I now have about 200 varieties, 
mostly Giant Cactus, Decorative, Peony-flowered and 
the new Collarettes. For $1.00 I will send, by parcel-post, 
10 divisions such as I plant myself, each different but not 
labeled. These will include the highest-priced novelties of 
American, German, French and English origin and the 
cream of the standard sorts. There is not a poor variety 
in my collection. Every inferior one, even if it cost $5.00 
a plant, has been discarded. 
H. I. IRELAND, Wallingford, Penna. 
Special May Planting List 
For Dry Ground and the Seaside 
ALL OF them are things that can be successfully 
planted in May 
We can assure you of beautiful seashore planting 
of shrubbery and trees where there have been repeat- 
ed failures. For high and dry ground, we have the 
drought resisting trees. 
We will gladly give you a set of trees and shrubs 
to test out. Don’t hesitate to ask for them. 
Nothing you buy of Hicks is an experiment. Every- 
thing is guaranteed to grow satisfactorily or cheerfully 
replaced. 
Rhododendrons in bloom May ioth to 
20th. Come and see them. Take a bloom- 
ing plant home. Send for the special list. 
Our phone is 68 Westbury. 
fficks ]reg5 
Isaac Hicks & Son 
T umpike, Westburu . LonJ Island 
