A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



"Is the Pergola an American Necessity?" 



"Garden Design." 



"The Need of a Plan for the! Small City or 

 Suburban Lot." 



"The Spring Garden." 



An occasional lecture by one thoroughly versed 

 in some special subject connected with the garden 

 is a wonderful fillip to interest in meetings. In 

 our club, where the dues are so small, we cannot 

 engage speakers. But should an authority on gar- 

 dening happen to be in the town, we seize upon 

 him or her and demand a few crumbs of garden 

 wisdom as our right. But — not too many lec- 

 ttires, or individual participation lags. Once or 

 twice a season experience meetings are well. Call 

 the roll, asking each member beforehand to use 

 three minutes in describing her greatest success or 

 most depressing failure during the past season. 

 The severest garden club atmosphere under this 

 treatment warms and glows. 



Too many lectures, I may repeat, hurt rather 

 than help. Too much intensive work is apt to 

 grow dull. To strike the delicate balance is the 

 needed thing. Above all, to get many members 

 actively to work — this is the secret of success in 

 any organization of any kind. 



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