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started our club a year ago, and being perfectly overrun 

 with clubs and rather tired of them, we have tried to make 

 it as unclublike as possible. It has been the greatest suc- 

 cess. We have had delightful meetings, with papers and 

 talks by our own members. We have had two days in the 

 country with the wild flowers, which were intensely enjoyed. 

 Those who were able went to a lecture by Hugo de Vries, at 

 Princeton; and in the spring some of us visited the garden 

 planned by the late Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, doubtless one of 

 the most beautiful smaller gardens in this part of the country. 

 During the summer a number of meetings were held at the 

 seashore, where most of the members had come together and 

 studied the flowers of the coast, both wild and cultivated. 

 Some of our topics are: 'Flowers in Mythology and History, 5 

 'The Christmas Tree,' 'Evergreens from Prehistoric Ages to 

 our Gardens/ 'Orchids, Wild and Cultivated,' 'English Gar- 

 dens,' 'French Gardens,' 'Italian Gardens,' 'Kew and Its 

 Research Work,' 'Flowers in Poetry,' 'Insect Pests,' 'The 

 Hardy Border,' 'Roses,' 'Bulbs'; and always we have prac- 

 tical discussion for the last hour." The range of suggestion 

 here set forth is remarkable, and, if I am not mistaken, the 

 enthusiasm warming every word of this short letter will 

 affect others who may read it here, as it has already af- 

 fected me. 



The Garden Club of Lenox, Massachusetts, has the great 

 good luck to exist where backgrounds, both near and far, are 

 pictures; where planting, however little, cannot fail to be 

 telling. Disadvantages may exist. Frost surely arrives too 

 soon; soil on those glorious hillsides may be scarce; yet 

 where every prospect is one of beauty, the stimulus toward 

 the creation of beauty must be unique. Add to this the 

 fact that for at least a year a painter and sculptor was their 



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