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House & Carden 
The Dogwood in Bloom 
Flowering Trees 
F OR a riot of springtime glory—a sure touch of 
decorative beauty for your lawn—cheerful color 
in the dull autumn days—and many other land¬ 
scape charms, there is one prescription that never 
fails: plant Flowering Trees. Certainly for the slight 
trouble and the small cost, the reward is munificent. 
How often you have envied the foresighted neigh¬ 
bor whose home is panoplied in a gorgeous shower 
of springtime blossoms—just when you hunger for 
it most! Don’t miss your opportunity now —especi¬ 
ally with this advantageous offer of the choicest of 
Flowering Trees: 
The following five trees , one of each, for the special 
combination price of $17.50 b’eiow) 
The beauty of these Flow- I f jji 
ering Trees is enhanced by 
group planting. The Dog- m _ 
PINK DOGWOOD. Perhaps the 
most popular flowering tree 
because of the delicate pink 
flowers that brighten the land¬ 
scape during the early spring. 
It makes a handsome individual 
specimen when given suffi¬ 
cient space. 5-6' high. Price, 
each .$4.00 
WHITE DOGWOOD. Although a 
forest native, this is a valu¬ 
able tree for lawn decoration. 
The flowers are attractive dur¬ 
ing the spring and the foliage 
assumes brilliant autumnal 
tints that make it effective 
during the fall months. On the 
older trees, the berries remain 
well into the winter. 6-8' high. 
Price, each .$2.00 
PARKMAN’S CRAB APPLE. The 
branches of this tree are fairly 
covered with bloom during the 
spring. Because of its irregu¬ 
lar growth its beauty is best 
displayed in group or colony 
plantings. 6-8' high. 
Price, each .$5.00 
Cherry Blossoms 
FLOWERING CHERRY, white. 
Its large double blossoms make 
it especially desirable for lawn 
decoration. Few trees attract 
more attention during the 
flowering season. 8-10' high. 
Price, each.$7.50 
VARNISH TREE — KOELREU- 
TERIA PANICULATA. Very 
rare, this is a valuable tree, 
worthy of being included in 
* your collection. Flowers dur¬ 
ing the summer when few 
other trees are in bloom. 8-10' 
high. Price, each .$3.50 
ALL 5 OF THE *7 SO 
ABOVE TREES FOR 1 / 
(OR THE NEXT SMALLER SIZE 
ALL FIVE TREES FOR $12.50; 
4sk for our Complete Catalog 
Moons ’ Nurseries 
THE WM. H. MOON CO. 
MORRISVILLE PENNSYLVANIA 
which is 7 mile from Trenton. N.J. 
Notes of the Garden Clubs 
{Continued from page 98) 
T HE Garden Club of Danville, Va., 
was organized 1918, and Mrs. William 
D. Overby is the President. There are 
30 active women members, and 10 
honorary, some of whom are men. 
Meetings are held every two weeks, the 
nine gardening months of the year, with 
spring and fall exhibitions held at homes 
of members, the flowers being after¬ 
wards sent to the City Hospital and the 
vegetables to the Orphanage, the 
grounds of which the Club hopes to 
lay out and plant soon with flowering 
shrubs. 
A number of the members of the 
club have designed their own gardens, 
and prepare papers for the year’s pro¬ 
gram which includes such subjects as 
grapes, vegetables, special flowers, etc., 
also the old English garden, the rock 
garden, and water gardens. One of the 
members, Mrs. Brimmer, after crossing 
the Beefsteak and Ponderosa Tomato, 
for years, has placed a new tomato on 
the market, and one meeting was de¬ 
voted to explaining the culture of this 
new variety which Mrs. Overby has 
grown to the length of 14', cutting out 
all suckers, and gathering tomatoes av¬ 
eraging one pound and a half and run¬ 
ning as large as two and a quarter 
pounds each. The late Maurice Fuld 
gave two lectures for the club to which 
friends were invited, and upon another 
occasion it entertained the State Fed¬ 
eration of Clubs. The arousing of in¬ 
terest in gardening is considered the 
chief accomplishment of the Garden 
Club. 
T HE Garden Club of Evanston, Illi¬ 
nois, of which the President is Mrs. 
Leslie Hildreth, was founded in 1915, 
and is composed of 50 active women 
members, and includes men on the list 
of associates. Professor Waterman, the 
eminent authority on the Dunes, and 
Professor Atwell, the specialist in trees 
and their protection, are honorary mem¬ 
bers of the Club. At the monthly meet¬ 
ings the speakers are frequently from the 
University of Chicago and the North¬ 
western University, though sometimes 
from more distant places, even from 
England. When there is a subject of 
general interest the public is invited to 
attend. Topics which have been con¬ 
sidered are gardens in relation to the 
home, color in various aspects, soil, 
scientific plant-feeding, botany as the 
foundation of agriculture, by Professor 
Henry Coles, and War Gardens. On 
field days a group of gardens may be 
visited by previous arrangement or per¬ 
haps a whole day is spent at one of the 
members’ places, as at Mrs. Clay Baird’s 
extensive fruit farm, which she has 
planted with plums, peaches in succes¬ 
sion of about three months, and choice 
apples, all growing successfully on vol¬ 
canic soil. 
Another day a motor trip was made 
to Grass Lake, where a motor launch 
enabled the Club to view the lotus field. 
Two of the most successful of the nu¬ 
merous exhibitions held were arranged 
in a park in the center of the city, and 
there is an annual exhibition of asters, 
the flower selected by the school children 
of Evanston to perfect, prizes of money 
and ribbons being awarded. The Gar¬ 
den Club also conducts a spring garden 
market, where, in addition to the choic¬ 
est perennials, sweet herbs, etc., annuals 
from the tiniest seedlings at a cent each 
to those in bloom, are sold so cheaply 
that even the poorest can buy, and the 
streets are joyous with flowers carried 
by young and old. There is a bargain 
table of surplus stock from members’ 
gardens so that all who wish can have 
a hardy border. 
Original garden work has been done 
by many of the members on their own 
grounds, including Mrs. William Nic'n- 
olls, Mrs. Alfred Gross and Mrs. Gabriel 
Slaughter. Mrs. Evans planned the gar¬ 
den of the Woman’s Club and several 
school gardens. Mrs. Clinton Day plant¬ 
ed a border on the Westmoreland golf 
grounds, and for years Mrs. David Noyes 
has had charge of the lovely gardens of 
the Glen View Golf Club. The chief 
concrete achievement of the Garden Club 
has been the Shakespeare Garden plant¬ 
ed as part of the tri-centenary celebra¬ 
tion and given to the Northwestern Uni¬ 
versity, for whose grounds it was de¬ 
signed by Mr. Jens Jensen, the landscape 
architect, the planting being done by a 
member of the Club and her associates 
from a list of plants verified by the 
Shakespeare Society at Stratford-on- 
Avon. The Club maintains the gift. 
The most important new plans of the 
Club are the planting of some railroad 
banks and of memorial trees for the new 
high school. During the war bulletins 
were printed for school gardens and for 
some of the foreign residents. Also, 
money has been given to city gardens 
and for preparatory garden training for 
women. 
The Evanston Garden Club belongs 
to the Illinois Audubon Society and the 
American Gladiolus, American Iris, and 
American Rose Societies. 
T HE Garden Club of Youngstown, 
Ohio, of which Mrs. R. P. Hartshorn 
is President, was founded in 1915, and 
includes 49 active and 18 associate mem¬ 
bers who almost all do practical garden¬ 
ing, and who meet monthly, excepting 
in December and August. The program 
is rather allowed to take its suggestions 
from the seasons, a special subject, such 
as strawberries, bulbs, etc., being as¬ 
signed to each member, who is expected 
to be prepared to supply information 
and possibly give a talk on her specialty. 
At one meeting a landscape architect 
talked on lilacs and similar lectures are 
planned. Mrs. Willis Warner, one of the 
members, has especially studied the 
shrubs supplying birds with food in win¬ 
ter, on which she wrote a paper for the 
Club. Another member, Mrs. Martha 
Kneass, has done professional work, one 
of her chief examples being the design¬ 
ing and planting of the McKinley Me¬ 
morial at Niles, Ohio. 
A sale of plants and bulbs is held in 
October, the last one being arranged in 
the entrance arcade of a department 
store, and the funds realized have been 
contributed towards a scholarship for 
training an Ohio girl at the State Agri¬ 
cultural College; also part of the money 
has been contributed to the Woman’s 
National Farm and Garden Association, 
of which the Club is a branch. During 
the war many of the members super¬ 
vised community gardens, which also re¬ 
ceived their financial support, and Mrs. 
George Clegg, the President of the Club, 
organized and managed the Community 
House in which the girls lived while 
working on the farm. In addition, the 
members sent a large sum of money to 
France to be used for agricultural re¬ 
construction. 
T HE Horticultural Society of New 
York is offering at the International 
Flower Show in New York, March 14th 
to 20th, two $50 silver cups to be com¬ 
peted for by Member Clubs of the Gar¬ 
den Club of America. One is for the 
best bird bath with planting, not to 
exceed 50 square feet of floor space, or 
7' by 7'; and the other for the best vase 
or basket of cut flowers, not less than 
2' nor more than 3' in diameter. 
The Garden Club of America, whose 
acting President is Mrs. Samuel Sloan, 
is also offering on the same occasion a 
gold medal for the best exhibit at the 
Show. On the committee to judge this 
exhibit are Mrs. Arthur Butler, of Mt. 
Kisco; Mrs. Pepper, of Philadelphia; and 
Miss Marian C. Coffin, of New York. 
