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Garden Club of Michigan. This was patterned mainly upon 

 that of Philadelphia, and I here acknowledge with renewed 

 gratitude our debt to that organization, which was most gra- 

 cious in its assistance; and to the New Canaan Garden 

 Club, also a friend in need. Our club, like the Philadelphia, 

 has sixty members. We have had, during our first year's 

 existence, seventeen meetings, with lectures upon such sub- 

 jects as roses, new flowers, gardens of England, garden books, 

 color in the garden, the making of an old-fashioned garden, 

 the grouping of shrubs, and the planning and planting of 

 home grounds. "We have learned," writes our secretary, 

 "much about gardens, gardeners, and gardening; also that 

 even garden clubs do not grow of themselves ! " 



For our club I have prepared from time to time a list of 

 color combinations in flowers, simple ones, easily produced 

 a list of my own preferences in seedsmen and plantsmen, 

 including specialists in this country and abroad, drawn from 

 dealings of twenty years past. If a seedsman sends me a 

 specially good sheet of cultural directions for a given flower, 

 I do not hesitate to beg at once for sixty for our next meeting. 

 Little piles of these things on the secretary's table do wonders 

 in shortening the hard road to good gardening. We have, as 

 a club, joined two or three plant societies, and during the 

 coming year we hope to help in some public horticultural im- 

 provement in Detroit, for in that city lies the balance of our 

 membership. The annual dues of our club, which were two 

 dollars, have now been raised to five. The dues of the va- 

 rious clubs average this sum; though in one club the sub- 

 scription is fifteen. In all clubs the meetings are held, as a 

 rule, in the houses or gardens of members. 



Expeditions are undertaken by some of the clubs jour- 

 neys to fine gardens, public or private. This is as it should 

 be. In England it is a common sight, that of horticultural 



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