§LL subscribers are requested to contribute short articles to 

 Our Garden Forum relative to their garden experiences, 

 successes and difficulties, and matters of interest pertain- 

 ing to unusual garden conditions, the whims of flowers. 



Dear Mrs. Harde: 



Our Garden Journal is issued for and by real flower lovers, 

 who work to develop the beauty of God's earth in gardens. It is 

 exactly these people the American Rose Society wishes now very 

 definitely to interest and associate with it. 



As you know, the American Rose Society is responsible for 

 three succeeding issues of the American Rose Annual, the one for 

 1918 probably now being on your desk. As its editor I can only 

 speak of the kindness, breadth and ability of the great men and 

 women who have contributed to make it a unique presentation of 

 original matter relating to the queen of flowers. It is a volume of 

 wholly net character, there being no more space-filling banalities 

 in it than in Our Garden Journal. Indeed, again as editor, I can 

 say that it was with open thought the blue pencil was used as elab- 

 orately as I found it necessary to use it to bring the original re- 

 search matter relating to roses within the limits of the book. 



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