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Significance of the "Garden 

 Clubs" 



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AT Short Hills, N. J., is a small but vigorous 

 Garden Club, with so informal an organiza- 

 tion that there is no officer but the president. 

 Membership here is limited — but meetings are 

 frequent, in summer as frequent as once a week 

 "thus enabling us" to quote a member, "to watch 

 carefully the development of color schemes and 

 artistic planting, so enthusiastically started in the 

 previous season; and to note the growth of plants 

 tried in our locality for the first time." The 

 writer further remarks upon the incentive estab- 

 lished by the frequency of meetings — and that 

 in time of failure the meetings prove a consolation 

 as well. The Short Hills Club has also for several 

 years had dahlia shows. In this short account the 

 most excellent suggestions are interest in novelties 

 in plants, a subject which always touches one nearly, 

 and an exhibition devoted to a particular flower. 



The Garden Club of Trenton, N. J., with a 

 membership of twenty-four, is limited to twenty- 

 five (one cannot help envying that twenty-fifth 

 member!) It holds its regular meetings on the 

 second Monday of each month, with an extra meet- 

 ing sometimes on the fourth Monday. The letter of 

 the Trenton club's secretary is so beguiling that I 

 yield to the temptation to quote a part of it ver- 

 batim — "We started our club a year ago, and 

 being perfectly overrun with clubs and rather 

 tired of them, we have tried to make it as unclub- 

 like as possible. It has been the greatest success. 

 We have had delightful meetings with papers and 

 talks by our own members. We have had two days 

 in the country with the wild flowers which were 

 intensely enjoyed. Those who were able went to 

 a lecture by Hugo de Vries, at Princeton, and in 

 the spring some of us visited the garden planned by 

 Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, doubtless one of the most 

 beautiful smaller gardens in this part of the country. 

 During the summer a number of meetings were held 

 at the seashore where most of the members had come 

 together and studied the flowers of the coast, both 

 wild and cultivated. Some of our topics are: 

 'Flowers in Mythology and History, The Christ- 

 mas Tree, Evergreens from Prehistoric Ages to 

 our Gardens, Orchids, wild and cultivated, English 

 Gardens, French Gardens, Italian Gardens, Kew 

 Gardens and its Research Work, Flowers in Poetry, 

 Insect Pests, The Hardy Border, Roses, Bulbs'; 

 and always we have practical discussion for the 

 last hour." The range of suggestion here set 

 forth is remarkable — and if I am not mistaken, 

 the enthusiasm warming every word of this short 

 letter will affect others who may read it here, as 

 it has already affected me. 



The Garden Club of Lenox, Mass., has the 

 great good luck to exist where backgrounds, both 

 near and far, are pictures; where planting, however 

 little, cannot fail to be telling. Disadvantages 

 may exist. Frost surely arrives too soon; soil 

 on those glorious hillsides may be scarce; yet 

 where every prospect is one of beauty, the stimulus 

 toward the creation of beauty must be unique. 

 Add to this the fact that for at least a year, a painter 

 and sculptor was their president, and could the 

 most eager Garden Club ask for more? 



In this club men and women are again associated. 

 The membership is limited to one hundred and 

 twenty-five, and has, I fancy, barely reached that 

 number. Regular meetings are held on the first 

 Mondays of July, August, September, and October. 

 Two novel and highly interesting sections occur 

 in the by laws of the Lenox Garden Club. The 

 first is this: "On the third Monday in June. July, 

 August, and September there shall be meetings of 

 the officers and council for the closer study of 

 gardens and gardening problems and the general 

 management of the club. All eligible to the council 

 must do manual work in their gardens, and bring 

 to the meetings, twice during the season, interest- 

 ing specimens of plants, blights, or insects, giving 

 their personal experience with them." 



The second follows and concerns a plant ex- 

 change: "Members having plants to exchange or 

 give away, may send a postal giving names and 

 quality to the recorder. Members desiring plants 

 may send in applications in the same manner. The 



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