Last April, at Aldenham the estate of the Honourable Vicary 
Gibbs, I saw just such an edging as that described above. Around the 
kitchen garden and bordering all its paths are great perennial beds 
twelve to jfifteen feet wide edged with entrancing rockery borders 
two or three feet wide. The rocks were laid with a gentle slope from 
the bed to the path and were filled with all the rock plants that to us 
are difficult but that grow with all the energy and assurance of weeds 
in England. In April all the plants named above were flowering or 
beginning to flower and it seemed to me the most charming and suc- 
cessful treatment of the edging problem that I had ever seen. 
K. L. B. 
Committee on Special Plant Societies 
Mrs. Charles H. Stout, Chairman. 
American Gladiolus Society. Mrs. S. E. Gage, 30Q Sanford Ave., Flushing, New York. 
American Peony Society. Miss Ellen Watson, 5400 Bartlett St., East End., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
American Iris Society. Mrs. Horatio G. Lloyd, Haverford, Pa. 
American Rose Society. Miss Hilda Ward, Roslyn, L. I. 
American Dahlia Society. Mrs. Charles H. Stout, Short Hills, N. J. 
SECRETARIES 
American Carnation Society. American Peony Society. 
A. F. J. Bauer, Indianapolis, Ind. A. P. Satmders, Clinton, N. Y. 
Chrysanthemum Society of America. Northwestern Peony and Iris Society. 
C. W. Johnson, 2242 W . logth St., W. F. Christman, Franklin Nursery, 
Chicago, III. Richfield Sla., Minneapolis, Minn. 
American Dahlia Society. American Rose Society. 
E. C. Vick, 205- Elwood Ave., Newark, N. J. John C. Wister, 606 Finance Building, 
California Dahlia Society. . Philadelphia, Pa. 
F. C. Burns, 714 Fourth St., San Rafael, Cal. American Sweet PeA Society. 
American Iris Society. E. C. Vick, 20s Elwood Ave., Newark, N . J. 
R. S. Sturievani, Wellesley Farms, Mass. 
The American Rose Society 
The American Rose Society was organized in New York in 1899, 
since then it has grown and prospered; its membership of in in 1907 
has gone beyond the 2,200 mark in 1921. The members, amateur 
and professional, represent all parts of the United States and much of 
the world. 
Carefully planned test gardens have been established: at Wash- 
ington, in co-operation with the Department of x\griculture; at Utica, 
with Cornell University and in co-operation with the Park Depart- 
ments of Hartford, St. Paul and that Rose city, Portland, Oregon. 
These test gardens are under direct charge of a selected local com- 
mittee appointed by the American Rose Society, 
There is also a system of affiliated local Rose Societies, each holding 
meetings and arranging lectures and shows to arouse wider and more 
intelligent interest in Roses among all types of people. 
Life Members pay $50, Sustaining Members and Annual Members 
make yearly payments of $10 and $3 respectively. Affiliated members 
are received at $3 through the secretary or other official of an organ- 
ized rose or horticultural society, who will distribute the pubhcations 
to which such members are entitled. If ten or more affiliated members 
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