when everything else is gone. This bed is said to be over sixty years 
old if not older. It faces south, and in summer the plants probably 
receive a measure of shade from the trees on the street. It seems to 
me it is a plant which should be more generally grown as it is said to 
be easy to manage when once established. 
Emily D. Renwick, 
November 25, 1916. Short Hills Garden Club. 
John Greenleaf Whittier's poem for the agricultural exhibition at 
Amesbury contained this verse: 
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; 
Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; 
Who sows a field, or trains a flower, 
Or plants a tree, is more than all. 
Mrs. Stout's 
New Prize Dahlia — Gertrude Dahl 
So many members of the Garden Club of America have enquired 
whether my new dahlia "Gertrude Dahl" may be had, that I have 
told them that as soon as I knew myself, I would write to The Bul- 
letin. 
As soon as the American Dahlia Society gave me this prize, I 
had a number of cuttings made from the two plants which I have 
in my garden, and now think that I shall have a number of " pot- 
tubers" which I shall be able to sell to those who want them. As 
some have to go to the experiment station in Geneva, and a good 
many have already been spoken for, I must add that I will be 
able to take orders and fill them in order of precedence only, at 
$3.00 per plant or two plants for $5.00. Orders may be sent to 
to me direct, or to Mrs. Henry B. Binsse, Short Hills, New Jersey, 
who is to handle the money, and buy and ship supplies to a hospital 
in Brittany. This hospital is on the estate of her sister, Mrs. Thebaud, 
and they have also upward of a thousand Belgian children there. I 
know personally that the money is entirely used for that purpose, and 
feel that greater good is done with it than any other such charity 
which has come to my notice. 
"Gertrude Dahl" is a very large peony dahlia with strong stiff 
stems. It is an opalescent pink and apricot in color and is very free- 
flowering. 
