A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



tural organizations are highly desirable, as in this 

 way the help of the many is brought to the few. 



Now, as to the social side of the small garden 

 club. In no other department of social life can 

 such independence of spirit be shown as here. 

 This is due to the fact that members and their 

 guests are absorbed by the fascination of study 

 and discussion of gardening in one or another of 

 its forms; it matters not to them what they shall 

 eat, what they shall drink — I had almost added, 

 wherewithal they shall be clothed. For clubs in a 

 smaller community the question of the collation is 

 often and naturally, however, a matter for con- 

 cern. Let the articles limit this as they do in the 

 suggested constitution; but, more than this, let 

 the individual hostess occasionally omit the plea- 

 sant cup of tea. Do not be bound by a trifling 

 custom which fades into the background where so 

 important a matter as garden talk is and should 

 be uppermost. 



The time is here when any beginning garden 

 club can map out its plans with no difficulty and 

 may start on its career with high hopes of success. 

 It is common knowledge that the very character 

 of the gardening interest makes people more ready 

 to help than in almost any other form of organized 



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