Dahlia Show of the Short HiUs Garden Club 
The twelfth Annual Dahlia Show of the Short Hills Garden Club 
will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, September 29th and 
30th. 
All members of the Garden Club op America are invited to lunch- 
eon on Wednesday, September 29th at the Club House at one o'clock. 
[The Short HiUs Garden Club Dahlia Show is one of the really 
important shows of the country and Garden Club members are urged 
to accept this delightful invitation both for pleasure and enhghten- 
ment — Editor.] 
Notes 
Christmas At the Garden Club meeting held in New York last December 
Trees there was some discussion of the menace to our forest in the indiscrim- 
inate cutting of Christmas trees. No definite suggestions were made 
but the meeting agreed that something must be done. There has been 
a good deal of public interest in this question during the past year. 
In its December 1919 issue American Forestry printed the following 
on its front page: "Cut the Christmas Trees wisely and thus display 
the right Christmas spirit. Each year thousands of dwellers in towns 
and cities near the National Forests or privately owned forests turn to 
these tracts for trees which are to be the central feature in Yule-tide 
decorations. Where the trees are cut in accordance with the recom- 
mendation of the Forest Service and state forestry departments no 
harm is done, but the tendency of many is to slash the growth without 
regard to conserving the forest's resources. A tree selected for cutting 
should be one which is part of a group of trees of comparatively 
compact growth rather than a more or less isolated tree, the absence of 
which would make a decided gap which future growth could not fill. 
To follow this rule, of course, prevents the wholesale stripping of 
wooded tracts, which is done in many instances. Objection is some- 
times made to selecting for Christmas purposes a tree standing close 
to others, because the one chosen is apt tobeunsymmetrical. This ob- 
jection can be overcome by selecting a tree somewhat taller than the 
height required and cutting off the lower end. By using only the upper 
end a weU-shaped, pleasing ornament can be obtained which results 
in no harm to the forest." 
Some nursery-men contend that Christmas trees can be profitably 
nursery-grown, others that they cannot. One suggestion is that for 
every Christmas tree used a small tree be planted somewhere. 
Have you any suggestions to make and do you think that the 
Garden Club of America' should concern itself with this question? 
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