December, 1914 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



175 



five cents' worth of flower or vegetable seed, for which 

 each child pays ten cents, the club paying the balance. 

 The childien plant their seeds at home, exactly as they 

 please, and in late July or August a committee makes 

 the round and judges each garden on a scale of points 

 for neatness, quantity, quality, etc. 



The adoption of a color standard is one of the chief 

 aims of the club. After several years of experiment and 

 "matching up" of flowers, the Executive Committee 

 decided upon Dr. Robert Ridgway's book "Color Stan- 

 dards and Nomenclature" as being far simpler, more 

 compact, and more accurate than the French chart then 

 in more or less general use, and having the added ad- 

 vantage of being in English. The club, therefore, com- 

 menced a vigorous campaign of talking and writing, 

 called the attention of the Garden Club of America 

 and other independent clubs to the Ridgway chart, 

 and started a movement in which many of the clubs are 

 joining, to urge the dealers to adopt this chart as a 

 national standard of color nomenclature. The one 

 drawback to this chart is its price, but the aim of the 

 club is to prepare a less expensive chart of fewer colors, 

 based on the Ridgway system of nomenclature. It is 

 gratifying to learn that so eminent an authority as the 

 Rev. Joseph Jacob is giving his color descriptions in 

 terms of this chart, and leads to the thought that it 

 may prove not only a national, but an international, 

 standard of garden color. 



The federation and cooperation of garden clubs are 

 planned for on a basis Utopian in itsultimate conception. 

 The plans at present in action are based on the free ex- 

 change of help between clubs. Each club having a " co- 

 operation secretary," whose sole work should be to send 

 out, periodically, a report of the meetings for the period 

 and a schedule of meetings for the period to come. 

 The reports should include the name of the speaker, 

 subject, price paid, and whether or not the speaker was 

 pleasing to the club. Representatives from any club 

 in correspondence under these arrangements are invited 

 to attend the meetings announced for the succeeding 

 quarters. Except for the fact that there is no separate 

 secretary for cooperation work, to which the corres- 

 ponding secretary attends, these plans are in active 

 service in the Shedowa Garden Club. As for foimal 

 federation, our country is so large, and the ideas and 

 ideals of the garden clubs differ so widely in diffeient 

 sections, that a real national federation, on democratic 

 lines, is almost impossible. In the formation of a club, 

 the members have every right to their choice of social 

 restrictions; in a national federation of clubs, it would 

 seem as though all kinds should be represented, from 

 the small association of farmers' wives to the wealthy 

 association of the summer colony, 



The management of the Shedowa Club is entirely in 

 the hands of the Executive Committee. The member- 

 ship is not limited; the dues are smaller than those of 

 the average garden club, and men of the community 

 are admitted as associates (since they cannot attend 

 afternoon meetings) for a still smaller fee. The club is 

 an all-the-year-round one, with meetings each month, 

 and an occasional extra talk. The speakers and their 

 expenses, prizes (except for four cups offered at each 

 large flower show by members and not permitted to 

 exceed S2.50 in price), and in fact all expenses, are 

 paid from the club treasury. An entrance fee for mem- 

 bers, and admission to non-members, are charged at 

 the spring and fall shows, and occasionally a small ad- 

 mission fee is charged to non-members for some of the 

 illustrated lectures; but as a rule, non-members are in- 

 vited as guests; and no admission fee is ever charged to 

 members except for the shows. Neither fee, nor ad- 

 mission, is charged for the little shows at meetings. 

 Members are never assessed beyond their annual dues. 

 This strict financial arrangement is one of the reasons 

 for its remaining an independent club. 



The Secretary of any garden club who cares to write 

 to the Secretary of the Shedowa Garden Club, 26 Cathe- 

 dral Ave., Garden City, L. I., with a request for a 

 quarterly schedule of meetings, will leceive a copy, 

 together with a cordial invitation to her club members 

 to attend our meetings when they can and will. 



Mary Youngs, Sec'y. 



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