Indian Hemp, Poppy and Caraway are sown in the fields and are 
given cultural treatment similar to field corn. Sage seed is sown in 
seed beds in the spring, is pricked out and transplanted into the field. 
In order to superintend and instruct the superintendents and 
gardeners in this work the services of one of the few successful growers 
of drug plants has been secured. 
If you would care to devote either a part of your greenhouse or 
land or both to growing drug plants, I would be glad to supply you 
with the necessary seed and to superintend the planting, cultivation, 
and harvesting of the crops. I think it would be fair after the crop is 
raised that you own half of it and I take one-half, to defray the cost 
to me of the seed and superintendence, and the cost of drying, which, 
to ensure the highest quality, has to be done in a specially con- 
structed house, heated to a high temperature. 
Should you desire to donate one-half of your share of the crop to 
the American Red Cross, I will join you and do likewise with my 
share. 
I shall be glad to send further particulars. 
C. Clifton Lewis, 
150 Nassau Street, New York, and 
722 French Street, Wilmington, Del. 
The Short Hills Garden Club Dahlia Show 
Our Dahlia Show was a problem this year. We had established for 
it an enviable reputation, and it seemed a pity to give it up. Our 
time and our labor was needed for the National Cause, and we 
must do oux bit, come what may. So at last we called in our beloved 
Dahlia to help — and help it did. 
It was too late to buy tubers when we finally decided to have 
the show for the benefit of the Red Cross, so that only a few of our 
members could show novelties. But the old favorites were favorites 
still, and the loving care given them was rewarded by the plant's best 
efforts. Our friends came from distant cities to see the blooms, and 
were most enthusiastic over what they saw. Even hardened dahlia 
specialists of many years' professional experience, admitted that our 
Show, though smaller, of course, was better in quality than the New 
York Show. 
The walls were banked with a veritable forest of autumn leaves 
and autumn berries. The soft green burlap with which we always 
cover the tables, brought out the color of the blooms in full relief, as 
in their natural surroundings. The flower arrangements were particu- 
larly original and very lovely. 
The blooms were all sold, some individually, and some at auction, 
and enough money was realized to keep our Surgical Dressing workers 
well supplied with material. 
