MEETINGS AND EXHIBITIONS IN JULY 
1. Garden Club of Lawrence, L. I.: exhibition and lec- 
ture, “Vegetables,” Mr. Edwin K. Jenkins. 
2. Pasadena, Calif., Horticultural Society: meeting. 
3. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y.: lec- 
ture, “Some Interesting Plants of the Rocky 
Mountains,” Dr. P. A. Rydberg. 
5. New Bedford, Mass.. Horticultural Society: meeting. 
6. 7. Texas State Florists’ Assoc., Fort Worth, Texas: meet- 
ing 
7. Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 
8. Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 
Mass.: exhibition. 
8, 9. American Sweet Pea Society, in conjunction with 
Newport Hort. Soc., Newport. R. I: annual exhibi- 
tion and meeting. 
10. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Society: meeting. 
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y.: lec- 
ture, “The Poisonous Plants of the Eastern United 
States,” Mr. William Mansfield. 
12. Rochester, N. Y., Florists’ Association: meeting. 
Baltimore Meeting of the Garden Club of 
America 
T HE third annual meeting of the Garden Club of 
America, held in Baltimore May 10th, nth, 
and 1 2th, 1915, was attended by delegates all the way 
from Massachusetts to Virginia, from Long Island to 
Michigan; 175 representatives in all from the twenty- 
one dubs incorporated in the organization — an 
organization of so vigorous growth that it increases 
by leaps and bounds each year of its life, nine new 
clubs being enrolled upon the membership list for 
1 9 I S- 
The Convention opened with an assembling of the 
various committees in the parlors of the Belvidere 
Hotel. 
The business meetings were held in the long 
parlors at 505 Park Avenue. Mrs. J. Willis Martin, 
President of the Garden Club of Philadelphia, as 
well as President of the Garden Club of America, 
held the chair. With the exception of Mrs. Stuart 
Patterson, Honorary President, and Miss Goodman, 
Secretary, all of the officers were present: Mrs. II. U. 
Auchincloss, Treasurer; the three Vice-Presidents, 
Mrs. Rutherford Ely, Mrs. King, well known to the 
readers of The Garden Magazine by her writings, 
Mrs. Russell, of Princeton; and the two garden 
consultants, Mrs. Max Farrand and Miss E. L. Lee. 
Mrs. Walter A. Brewster acted as Recording Sec- 
retary. 
The minutes of the Princeton meeting and the 
Treasurer’s report were read; and a change of name 
to the National Garden Club of America was dis- 
cussed. 
The award for the best paper on the “Placing of 
the Flower Garden in Relation to the House,” was 
bestowed on Mr. Renwick, of the Short Hills Garden 
Club, Miss Isabel Pendleton’s paper being second in 
the contest. 
There were reports from the committees on the 
wholesale purchasing of seeds; on garden literature; 
on lectures; on a definite color standard and nomen- 
clature with the purpose of finally inducing all seeds- 
men to adopt Dr. Ridgway’s Color Chart; and the 
committee on beautifying the highways and settle- 
ments of America. All these reports were discussed 
at length. In connection with the work of the last 
named committee Senate Bill No. 247, introduced by 
Senator Verdier, of Michigan, was laid before the 
assembly. 
This bill, an amendment to act No. 283, is for the 
purpose of preserving the trees, hedges and shrubs 
along public highways, and makes it a misdemeanor 
to destroy dogwood, elder, wild rose, and diverse 
other of the common wayside growths. Dr. War- 
thin remarked feelingly in his illuminating paper on 
the subject, that there are few things so conspicuous 
as our national shabbiness, and asks, “Are philistin- 
ism, vulgarity, and lack of taste the necessary con- 
comitants of a democratic state? ” 
It was moved that a copy of Dr. Warthin’s report 
be mailed with the “Garden Bulletin” to every 
member of the Club. 
Garden Club of New Rochelle, N. Y.: meeting. 
13. Lake Geneva Gardeners’ and Foremen’s Association, 
Lake Geneva, Wis.: meeting. 
14. Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 
Nassau County Horticultural Society, Glen Cove, 
N. Y.: meeting. 
14-17. National Negro Farmers’ Congress, San Francisco, 
Calif. 
15. Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 
Mass.: exhibition. 
Garden Club of Lawrence, L. I.,: exhibition and lec- 
ture, “Peonies,” Bertrand II. Farr. 
16. Pasadena, Calif., Horticultural Society: meeting. 
Greenwich, Conn. Garden Club: meeting. 
17. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y.: lec- 
ture, “Botanic and Scenic Features of the Dells of 
the Wisconsin River,” Dr. A. B. Stout, N. J. 
18. 19. Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural Society, 
Greenwich, Conn.: summer show. 
21. Short Hills Garden Club: meeting. 
The executive committee announced a change of 
management of the “Bulletin,” with Mrs. Walter 
Brewster, of Lake Forest, 111 ., as editor. It will be 
issued six times yearly in future, instead of quarterly. 
The reports of the different clubs on the work done 
by them during the year were most inspiring. 
Hardly a club that had not aimed to prove of real 
civic value to its community. Special mention 
should be made of the Orange and Dutchess County 
Club, of which Mrs. Ely is a member. It numbers 
twenty-nine, with average attendance of fifteen. It 
is spread over two counties, some of its members 
driving eighty miles and crossing the Hudson River 
twice to attend a meeting. Their President re- 
marked that Washington crossing the Delaware 
seemed but a small feat to them. 
The Michigan club has a garden planning contest. 
The Lenox club has instituted a caterpillar campaign 
for the extermination of those creeping horrors; and 
the Cincinnatti club has distributed nine thousand 
pink roses and fifty thousand bulbs in its beautifying 
campaign. 
The officers of the executive board were re-elected, 
with the exception of the secretary, Miss Goodman, 
whose resignation owing to ill health was deeply re- 
gretted. Mrs. Bayard Henry was elected to the 
vacancy. Lenox asked the honor of the meeting of 
the Garden Club in 1916; and the Lake Forest Club, 
of Illinois, and the Cincinnatti Club requested the 
dates of 1917 and 1918. 
Some word of appreciation is due Baltimore for its 
efficiency in handling, transporting, and entertaining 
the delegates. The charm of the beautiful gardens 
visited, the kindly savor of the old Southern hospi- 
tality will forever linger with those who enjoyed and 
participated in the Garden Fest of Baltimore. 
Mrs. C. Shirley Carter. 
Garden Clubs in the United States 
IV. The Ideal Federation 
{Concluding article in this series) 
W HEN the Millenium comes, with it will arrive 
the ideal federation of garden clubs. Until 
that time there will be federations like the varying 
governments of the ancient Greeks, of which we 
learned in school that they were “Aristocracies of 
birth, of wealth, of intellect, or of physical superi- 
ority,” the members of which were bound together 
“by kinship and religion!” 
Any kind of federation, the end and aim of which 
is to improve, is a good tiling — so far as it goes. Any 
organization which plans to help its own members 
alone, is a good thing for those members, except that 
it makes them narrow minded. Any organization 
which aims to help those outside of its membership 
by bestowing benefits from conscious heights of 
superiority is benevolent, but blind. They are all 
stirrings, beginnings, moves in the right direction, 
but not “until the sleeper wakes” will we have the 
ideal federation of garden, or any other clubs. 
Gardening is essentially a gentle art, and tra- 
ditionally conducive to a friendly spirit. “The 
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22. Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 
Mass.: exhibition. 
24. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.. Horticultural Society: meeting. 
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y.: lec- 
ture, “Botanizing on the Austro-Italian Border,” 
Dr. W. A. Murrill. 
26-30. California State Fruit Growers’ Convention, Stanford 
University, Calif. 
27,28. Lenox, Mass.: summer exhibition. 
28. Short Hills, N. J., Gaiden Club: meeting. 
29. Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 
Mass.: exhibition. 
30. Greenwich, Conn. Garden Club: field day. West Coast 
Potato Association, Stanford University, Calif.: 
meeting. 
31. N ew York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y.: lec- 
ture, “Library of the New York Botanical Garden,” 
by Dr. J. H. Barnhart. 
Dates to be fixed later: 
Garden Club of Warrenton, Ya.: meeting. 
Colonel’s Lady, and Judy O’Grady, are sisters under 
their skins,” when they set forth to conquer the in- 
vading rose bug, or mourn over the pet plant which 
is bound to “die on them.” But many times does 
Judy triumphantly resuscitate the Lazarus-plant 
which the Colonel’s Lady cannot bring to fife; and 
the Colonel’s Lady from her wider access to books 
and authorities, can help out Judy in her battle with 
the rose bugs. And this applies with equal force 
to Mr. O’Grady and the Colonel himself. 
The ideal federation, therefore, will include every 
garden club in the United States. There will be 
local — let us say county — federations, with a county 
chairman, secretary, etc., to periodical meetings of 
which each club in the county will send a fixed 
number of delegates. There will be a State feder- 
ation properly officered — but the fewer officers, the 
better — to an annual meeting of which each 
County organization will send a fixed number of 
delegates; and there will be a National federation 
(or a National convention of State federations), to 
which each State federation will send not more than 
three or five delegates. 
Since this National body will be so large and so 
unwieldy, it will probably meet not oftener than once 
in two years, because of the attendant expense. 
Each club will, in all cases, pay from the club 
treasury the expenses of delegates appointed from 
that club. This will insure the sending of delegates 
from different clubs each time, as no one or two 
clubs, no matter what their political aspirations, will 
want to bear too much expense. If they do, it will 
not be allowed. 
Each county unit will exchange bulletins, infor- 
mation, etc., with the others; each club with as many 
clubs as ask — there will be a “federation secretary” 
in each club, besides the regular secretary. Each 
State federation will send reports to the others. All 
these regular exchanges will be quarterly, and irres- 
pective of other correspondence. There will be 
little or no printing done, as this exchange work will 
be done by secretaries, and not by means of a 
printed leaflet. This means more work for in- 
dividuals, but less expense, and hence less demand 
upon individual members for money. The only 
assessments will be for stationery and postage; each 
club will pay for its own from the club treasury, as at 
present. The County, State, and National secre- 
taries will at the end of each year make a statement to 
each club of what they have expended for paper and 
postage, and the expense will be equally divided 
among all the clubs. The National staff will have 
little control of the state federations, beyond calling 
and managing the National meetings, and should 
have comparatively little expense for postage, etc., 
since all exchange of lists of speakers, information, 
etc. , can be carried on by individual clubs and County 
organizations, and the results of all these exchanges 
brought to State and National meetings in the form 
of questions, reports, and papers of information. 
As a matter of course all this will include both 
women and men, for although in garden clubs as at 
present organized women take the leading part. 
