ing flowers, fancy baskets, scissors, etc. Before the fete opened, 
$300.00 worth of annuals had been sold and delivered, from the 
gardens of various of the Club members. These sold at $1.00 
a dozen. One member who specializes in Gladioli, and has many 
thousand, sent about 3,000 bulbs which sold at $5.00 a hundred. 
Delphinium plants, very strong and from English seed, sold at 
$3.00 a dozen; hardy Chrysanthemums at from $2.50 to $3.00 
a dozen, according to the size. One member of the Club, who 
had a large supply of the fine white Iris, OcJiroleuca, sold almost 
$30.00 worth of them and great numbers of named Iris sold 
well. These were not brought to the grounds, but orders were 
procured, and the plants delivered at the right time. Dahlia 
bulbs from Mrs. Taft's garden were in demand, and many other 
perennials beside the Delphiniums, such as Anchusa and Colum- 
bines, sold well. Fancy baskets filled with cut flowers, in attract- 
ive combinations, were eagerly bought, also great bunches of 
Japanese Iris. Some of the members, who had no flowers or 
bulbs to give, gave donations of money. 
Flower The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has adopted a policy 
Shows for of giving assistance to all Horticultural Societies, Garden Clubs 
School and Civic Associations in Pennsylvania, who may be interested 
Work in Flower Shows or School Garden Work, by aiding them in 
making up schedules of prizes in the management of shows, by 
offering a prize in any competitive class of importance, in the 
development of flowers or exhibitions, and whenever possible the 
Secretary of the Society will attend personally at a first show, 
to give advice as to proper methods. Mrs. H. G. Lloyd and 
Mrs. Wm. T. Elliott have been active in the adoption of these 
new activities. All inquiries sent to the office of the Society, 606 
Finance Building, Philadelphia, will be cheerfully answered.. 
\ AT \ R VT T m 
Halli Mrs. Charles Stout writes us of a charming pink and mauve 
(Lycoris) comDm ation of plants. ' She uses Didiscus Cerulea (Blue Lace 
Flower) as a ground cover for her pink hardy Amaryllis, Lycoris 
Didiscus S( l ua ' m W era > which blooms without leaves in August and needs 
Cerulev J us ^ sucn a feathery mass blooming with it. 
Flower 
Gardener 
AS 
Contrasted 
with 
Flower 
Arranger 
The following excerpt from a recent novel by E. O. Somer- 
ville will make a humorous appeal to many of our gardeners. 
"The temperaments of the flower-gardener and the flower 
arranger are seldom united, and it is sufficiently apparent why 
this should be so. The gardener, with his caution, his instinct 
for preservation, his inveterate stinginess, is inevitably incapable 
of the free and buccaneering sacrifice of the fittest that marks 
the true flower-arranger." 
E. P. K. 
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