APPENDIX 



president, and could the most eager garden club ask for 

 more? 



In this club men and women are again associated. The 

 membership is limited to one hundred and twenty-five, and 

 has, I fancy, barely reached that number. Regular meet- 

 ings are held on the first Mondays of July, August, Septem- 

 ber, and October. Two novel and highly interesting sections 

 occur in the by-laws of the Lenox Garden Club. The first 

 is this: "On the third Monday in June, July, August, and 

 September there shall be meetings of the officers and council 

 for the closer study of gardens and gardening problems and 

 the general management of the club. All eligible to the 

 council must do manual work in their gardens, and bring to 

 the meetings, twice during the season, interesting specimens 

 of plants, blights, or insects, giving their personal experience 

 with them." 



The second follows and concerns a plant exchange : " Mem- 

 bers having plants to exchange or give away may send a 

 postal giving names and quality to the recorder. Members 

 desiring plants may send in applications in the same man- 

 ner. The recorder shall keep a list of both and shall 

 bring the same to all meetings, that members may refer 

 to it." 



The younger clubs naturally profit by such wise arrange- 

 ments and suggestions as these. Thus it is not strange to see 

 rules on these general lines in the book of the Garden Club 

 of Long Island, whose membership seems to centre about 

 Lawrence and which, though in existence only since Septem- 

 ber of 1912, has the astonishing membership "already yet 

 so soon, " as an old German gardener of my acquaintance was 

 wont to say, of ninety-one ! This club meets twice a month 

 in summer. Miss Rose Standish Nichols has spoken to them 



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