could one ask of a rose? The third is Mrs. John Cook, a descendant of 
Ophelia. I do not know it, but I have read great things in its praise: 
that it is more beautiful than its parent, more robust, more prolific 
in the garden, and more fragrant. It certainly sounds promising. 
Louise S. Hubbard. 
Garden 
Pests 
and 
Remedies 
Lilacs and 
Their 
Troubles 
Lilacs are particularly easy to grow and for this reason are usually 
neglected and left to take care of themselves. 
They appreciate a deeply cultivated and well-manured soil. They 
thrive in plenty of air and sunlight and resent being wedged in by 
evergreens in crowded shrubbery. 
When lilacs fail to bloom it is frequently due to the wood not 
having ripened, owing to the overcrowding of the growth. 
The pruning of Klacs is simple. It consists of cutting, away the 
old flower heads and thinning out the weak shoots as soon as the 
flowering season is over. 
The suckers constantly thrown up by lilacs should be grubbed 
up at all seasons of the year. Choice varieties are frequently grafted 
on common stock, and if the suckers are allowed to grow, they will 
soon over-run the weaker graft. 
From The Garden. 
Special Plant 
Societies 
American Carnation Society 
A. F. J. Bauer, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Chrysanthemum Society of America 
C. W. Johnson, Sec'y, 2242 W. logth St., 
Chicago, III. 
American Dahlia Society 
E. C. Vick, Sec'y, 203 Elmwood Ave., 
Newark, N. J. 
National Dahlia Society 
R. W. Gill, Sec'y, Portland, Oregon 
California Dahlia Society 
JV. F. Vanderbilt, Sec'y., 725 Fifth St., 
San Rafael, Cal. 
Southern Dahlia Society 
W. E. Claftin, Secy, College Park, Md. 
American Gladolius Society 
A. C. Seals, Sec'y, Ithaca, N. Y. 
American Iris Society 
R. S. Sturtevant, Sec'y, Wellesley Farms, Mass. 
American Peony Society 
A. P. Saunders, Sec'y., Clinton, N. Y. 
Northwestern Peony and Iris Society 
W . F. Christman, Sec'y, 3804 Fifth Ave. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
American Rose Sooety 
Prof. E. A. White, Sec'y, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
American Sweet Pea Society 
William Gray, Sec'y, Bellevue, Rd. 
Newport, R. I. 
Preliminary arrangements are being made for exhibitions of both 
the Peony and Iris this Spring. 
Northwestern The Iris is grown extensively in the Northwest and especially at 
Peony and points tributary to the Twin Cities of MinneapoHs and St. Paul, Minn. 
s bociety rj^YiQ Ins Show will be held in MinneapoHs and a special Peony Show 
is being arranged for St. Paul. Definite dates have not as yet been 
announced. 
Many new varieties of both Peony and Iris will appear at these 
Shows, and a report of them will be found in the Bulletin of The 
Garden Club and in the American's Peony Society's "Bulletin." 
An article on "Some of the Newer Peonies" has been prepared by 
the writer, and will be presented in the May issue of the "Flower 
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