The dahlia "Sunshine" may now be had for $3.00 per tuber, or 
two tubers for $5.00, or $2.00 per plant, three plants for $5.00. The 
money goes to the same charity. 
Henrietta M. Stout, 
Short Hills Garden Club. 
Warning! 
White Pine Trees Being Destroyed 
They Are Valued at 8261,000,000 
and the White Pine Blister Rust is Killing Them 
A disease known as the White Pine Blister Rust threatens the 
destruction of all the white pine and other five leaved pine trees in 
the United States. 
It has already appeared in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, 
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota and in Quebec and Ontario. 
There is no known cure for it. It kills the white pines infected and 
it spreads steadily. The spores or seeds are blown from diseased pines 
to currant and gooseberry bushes. They germinate on the leaves of 
these bushes. The leaves then produce millions of spores or seeds 
of the disease which are blown by the wind from the bushes to the 
pines, and these, even those several miles distant from the nearest 
bushes, are infected, become diseased and die. 
Unless the ravages of the White Pine Blister Rust are stopped 
these pines valued at $261,000,000 will be destroyed. 
The American Forestry Association urges people in all the regions 
where the disease has been discovered to destroy at once all currant and 
gooseberry bushes, diseased pines, and others exposed to infection. 
This will help to stop the spread of the disease. 
American Forestry Association, 
Washington, D. C. 
Now is the time for action. Help us to fight this disease. 
Rules for a Garden-Planning Competition 
■- : Hitherto the Garden Club has offered a prize to be awarded each 
year at the Annual Meeting, to the best essay submitted by a mem- 
ber, on a subject chosen by the Executive Committee. This year the 
plan has been changed and a prize will be given for the best Garden 
Design submitted under the following rules : 
