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of flowers among the seedsmen and gardeners of France, 

 Germany, and the East, Third: To establish a bureau 

 where the seeds of novelties from abroad can be obtained. 

 Fourth: To develop by means of illustrated lectures on the 

 gardens of England, Italy, and other countries more art, in- 

 dividuality, sentiment, and variety in the planting of flowers, 

 shrubs, and so forth. Fifth : To increase the practical knowl- 

 edge of the care of trees and plants by demonstrating the 

 methods used in Europe in the cultivation of flowers, fruit, 

 and vegetables, and in forestry." 



Objects, these, most excellent, and most excellently set 

 forth. In my judgment the Newport association is right; 

 we still must go abroad to find most of that which is highest 

 and best in gardening. This remark may provoke criticism. 

 It is still true. The fine gardens, the great arboreta (with 

 the exception of our own Arnold Arboretum, whose free 

 bulletins no garden club should fail to get and read), the most 

 perfect use of trees, shrubs, and flowers, are not yet found 

 generally in this country. And the sooner incisive sugges- 

 tions, such as these of the Newport association, wake us to a 

 sense of what we have not, and where we should go to find 

 it, the better for us. On the other hand, the library of the 

 Newport society seems wofully behind, in that it has no 

 books but English books, and that those, indeed, seem to me 

 to be more the suggestions of an English gardener or super- 

 intendent than of the fine English amateur. Six books 

 wanting from this list, some English and some American, are 

 "in my foolish opinion" indispensable to the serious ama- 

 teur in this country, the gardener whose one desire is to call 

 forth true beauty from the earth. 



The Newport association has had lectures or talks during 

 the summer of 1912 on the subjects of soil, the art of 



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