Mr. Chester Jay Hunt, at Madison, N. J., makes us all very wel- 
come at Narcissus time (April 15 th to 20th) and again at Tulip time 
(May 15th to 30th). It is a very easy trip by train or motor. 
Mr. T. A, Havermeyer's Lilac gardens near Roslyn, Long Island, 
are open to members of our Club. The celebrated Lilacs of Rochester 
are at their height in early June. 
But it is my heart's great desire that every one of our 2750 mem- 
bers will visit their nearest Iris nurseries during May and study this 
most ethereal flower as they have never studied it before. Those 
lucky enough to be near Philadelphia, on June ist, can see Iris in its 
glory at the First Annual Iris Show in the Wanamaker Auditorium. 
We are hoping that our club members will be among the prize winners; 
although the Iris Aristocracy wiU be out in full regalia. 
Chesterton somewhere remarks on the strange vagaries of " Family The Incom- 
Life." He asks who could be a more utter stranger to you than your jjotany ^^ '^ 
maiden Aunt, or who so temperamentally opposite than your cousins. 
He must have been thinking of the Ranunculus Family. It has always 
bewldered me to be assured that a Thalictrum is a first cousin to a 
Buttercup; or a Monkshood to an Anemone or a Clematis to a Colimi- 
bine and all six of them nieces of Love-in-a-Mist ! They neither look 
ahke, act alike, nor have they a taste in common. They are a bit 
acrid to be sure, although they seem to be more or less cut up about 
their leaving, but they all have their pistils distinct and unconnected 
and ready for a family feud. But wouldn't you hate to have to Hve 
in a family just because you happened to be Anatropous, which 
seems to mean "inverted and straight with your Mycrophyle next 
your hilHum and your radicle consequently inferior"? 
Anna Oilman Hell. 
The following article, reprinted in part from "Horticulture," Plant 
sounds so promising, that it would be well worth while to try a few Material 
plants of the St. Martin berry, I have looked through a dozen cata- 
logues for it, in vain, but still hope I can get it somewhere. 
"At recent exhibitions in Boston visitors have been greatly inter- |*- Martin 
ested in a remarkable new strawberry exhibited in bottles by Mr. 
Lewis Graton, of Whitman, a strawberry grower of long experience. 
It is with pleasure that I learn of Mr. Graton's intention to put this 
strawberry on the market this season, for it seems to me that it has 
great possibiHties. Mr. Graton, himself, is not an extensive commercial 
grower, but has spent many j^ears in perfecting this particular variety, 
hoping to make it the finest strawberry on the market. 
The large berries are a dark, rich red clear to the center, and are 
without green tips. The flavor is delicious, just the flavor looked for 
in a high class strawberry. 
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