Every garden club, and they are now legion, should arrange for 

 its members to "show" even if it is but a small basket of — well, just 

 anything pretty. No woman who hopes to exhibit her flowers will 

 be a gardener in June and by August tired or bored with it all. No, 

 the prospect of the Autumn show, or the "Harvest Fair" will hold 

 her unflagging interest until at least the first heavy frost. 



Garden clubs should have flower shows and make them so 

 worth while that unconsciously you will soon be growing only the 

 finest, the loveliest and the rarest of everything in the flower world, 

 learning the history of this plant and all the members of that one 

 and so on until you are quite expert and familiar with floriculture. 

 Your ambitions will soar, you will stop at nothing a woman may 

 accomplish. Budding, propagating etc., will soon be as casual 

 work as your former simple achievements. 



Exhibiting will give a zest to competition of the friendliest 

 sort among garden club members, leading to such delightful inter- 

 course and pleasant rivalry. I have never found real envy or 

 jealousy among women gardeners and I have known women who 

 in everything else but gardening were never open to conviction. 



Women gardeners should always dress attractively when 

 working, pretty fadeless linen smocks, large graceful garden hats 

 and tan laced boots of rather high cut. Always wear your pro- 

 tecting gloves and sometimes pretty, soft, unboned, dainty sun- 

 bonnets. 



Then you may garden in comfort and with the satisfying con- 

 viction that you are looking charming and quite worthy of a 

 charming garden. 



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