comprehensive and simple; and the 1905 edition, which I use, is still 
up-to-date in many ways, for although the names of the roses are changed 
each year the care of them is fundamentally the same. 
"Garden Flowers in Color" are a series of very good books, each 
treating of one flower. Edited by R. H. Pearson. 
"The Gardeners' Pocket Manual," by F. F. Rockwell, supplies 
information in the briefest possible way, reads well, but as it was pub- 
lished April, 1914, I have not yet tested its usefulness. 
Coming Sbows 
National Dahlia Society Convention, Seattle, Wash., September 
18th, 19th. 
American Institute, New York; Dahlia Show, September 22d to 
24th; Chrysanthemum Show, November 4th to 6th. 
Short Hills Garden Club Fifth Annual Dahlia Show, Friday and 
Saturday, September 25th and 26th, to which all members of the 
Garden Club of America are invited. 
Washington Flower Show, Old Masonic Temple, Washington, 
D. C, November 2d to 8th. 
Lenox Horticultural Society, Lenox, Mass., Fall Show, October 
22d and 23d. 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural Hall, Boston, 
Mass., Chrysanthemum Show, November 5th to 8th. 
The English shows have been almost all cancelled owing to the 
war. 
Destroy IRemnants of Garben plants IRow 
Prof. H. A. Surface, State Zoologist, Harrisburg, calls attention 
to the importance of promptly destroying the remnants of garden plants 
and truck crops in the fall rather than leaving them in the gardens or 
fields until spring. If destroyed now, many of their pests are destroyed 
with them; if allowed to remain until spring, many of these pests have 
opportunity to escape. 
At the suggestion of Miss Clark, President of the Amateur Gar- 
deners' Club of Baltimore, one of our garden consultants, Miss Lee, 
has consented to give a correspondence course during the winter in 
"Landscape Art in Relation to the Flower Garden" — the subject 
chosen for discussion at the next annual meeting of the Garden Club 
of America. The course will consist of about fifteen lessons or papers. 
Information as to terms and other details can be had by applying 
directly to Miss Elizabeth Leighton Lee, 10 South Eighteenth Street, 
Philadelphia. 
