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Louisville, Ky., April 15, 1915. 



MP. J. W. Newman, 



Commissioner of Agriculture, 

 Frankfort, (Ky. 



My Dear Sir: 



Enclosed find financial report of the Louisville Garden Club, also 

 bills amounting to $100.00, whicli are paid, and report of Mr. C. L. 

 Clayton, Superintendent, for the year 1914. 



We regret exceedingly not being able to get this report to you 

 sooner, but on account of business have not been able to do so. It is 

 needless to state that the Louisville Garden Club has done a great 

 deal of good in Louisville, and the results are being shown this year 

 in the great number of gardens started in the city, and the interest 

 tafeen by the schools and school children; and will state that this 

 year, on account of not having the necessary funds to engage a super- 

 intendent, prizes will only te given to the children; and we feel that 

 the rough work of the club has been done during the last three years 

 while Mr. Clayton was superintendent. 



We certainly appreciate your kindness and the help given us, and 

 also say the same for a great many others who have gardens, and 

 are interested in the work, who never would have thought of this 

 work except for your efforts in helping us. If there is any other 

 information or explanation in regard to anything that you would like 

 to have, we will be very glad to inform you. 



We are also enclosifig clippings of the last notice we had in the 

 paper, and will state that during the year we had a great many of these 

 clippings, and we are also giving stereopticon lectures, which work 

 was carried on all last year in different parts of the city, and through- 

 out the county. We do not expect to have the financial backing we 

 had last year, on account of change of times, but we expect to raise 

 enough to give the children substantial prizes. 



Thanking you for your kindness, we remain. 

 Yours truly, 



LOtJlSVILLE GARDEN CLUB, 

 (Signed) G. C. Blackman, 



Treasurer. 



P. S. — Blue ribbon prizes were also given. 



EEPOBT OF C. L. CLAYTON, SUPERINTENDENT 

 OF LOUISVILLE GARDEN CLUBS. 



Foe the Summee of 1914. 



The Louisville Garden Club was organized to create 

 an interest in gardening among the children and adults 

 of the city of Louisville, with the idea of making use of 

 some of the vast amount' of waste space which is scat- 

 tered throughout the city. Many people in the city are 

 paying out a large share of their earnings for food, 

 when by the use of some of their spare time spent in 

 raising a small garden, they could grow a very consider- 



