ON FORMING A GARDEN CLUB 



The very life-blood of any meeting is free and 

 intelligent discussion, and this is always present in 

 the garden club of our town. Always the hidden 

 gifts of knowledge and of expression which come 

 to light prove a delightful thing. Small concerted 

 movements on the part of the club are common. 

 For example, the receiving vault in our cemetery 

 needed a hanging of green; the garden club bought 

 a dozen good creepers of unusual character — ■ 

 Evonymus radicans (var. vegeta), and Ampelopsis 

 Lowii, to be explicit, and thus filled this small pub- 

 lic want. A bride in a new house with ungarnished 

 grounds receives a visit from a large committee of 

 the club, each of whom brings her quota of shrub 

 and plant from her own store. Seeds and plants 

 are constantly exchanged between members. But 

 the true beauty of this club is its democracy. 

 Every woman is welcome to the house in which the 

 meeting chances to be held. I quite realize that 

 this is possible or practicable only in the smaller 

 community; but one cannot but dream of the time 

 when it will be common in the large. 



In some garden clubs an extra officer is elected 

 to manage the exchanging of seeds and plants be- 

 tween members. This is sometimes effected by 

 the handing in of cards with names of things 



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