fruit-tree branches bloom with gorgeous luxuriance. In the vicinity 
of New York City all these branches may be cut by December ist, 
but not earlier, and cut in succession thereafter so as to give flowers 
up to April I St. 
Celia Thaxter's verses told the story to me years ago: 
" The alder by the river 
Shakes out her powdery curls, 
The willow buds in silver 
For Httle boys and girls, 
The Httle birds fly over 
And O, how sweet they sing 
To tell the happy children 
That once again 'tis Spring. " 
And through the years since then it has been a constant deHght 
to find from experience, by field and wood and hedgerow, how many 
surprises await one in the silent fastnesses of the leafless winter 
landscape. 
E. C. R. M. 
Dahlia Of interest to the Garden Clubs in the Middle West wiU be the 
Talk news that Mrs. Charles Stout will be in Cleveland some time during 
the first week in April to speak on Dahhas. Those of us who are so 
fortunate as to have heard Mrs. Stout's lecture will reaUze what a 
rare opportunity it is for the Dahlia lover. 
Any Garden Club wishing to take advantage of this opportunity 
might arrange a meeting by writing. 
Mrs. Chahles H. Stout, 
20 East 66th Street, New York. 
Memorial The Princeton Garden Club has just completed a memorial to its 
Planting late president, Mrs. Archibald Douglas Russell, which may be a 
helpful suggestion for memorials elsewhere. It is in the form of a walk, 
leading from the University Campus to Carnegie Lake through the 
strip of old woodland bordering the highway leading out of Princeton 
to the east. 
The aim of the club and their architects being to preserve as 
far as possible the natural character of the woods and the native 
plants, shrubs and trees, the walk, which is perhaps half a mile in 
length, it has been kept quite informal in character, following the 
natural levels of the groimd on the top of the rocky ledges through 
which the high-road was cut. It curves to the right or left to lead the 
walker under the natural arch of a viburnum lentago, between the 
splendid trunks of a group of century-old white oaks, or through a 
thicket of cherry trees which will be worth going far to see when they 
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