by answering the following questions at your earliest convenience 
and by making any suggestions which would help us to formulate a 
few simple rules governing our business dealings. These rules will be 
submitted for adoption to the Executive Board and to the members 
of all the Garden Clubs in this Association. 
"i. What method of ordering do you prefer? 
"2. Do you differentiate between home-grown and imported 
stock? 
"3. What percentage in addition to the original price should be 
added for guaranteeing stock? 
"4. Do you make a reduction in price to landscape architects 
and dealers? 
"5. Do you give commissions, gratuities, or presents at 
Christmas or other times to professional gardeners? and if so, how 
much?" 
Will you authorize us to go to the expense of sending out this 
questionnaire to perhaps twenty-five or thirty firms as a beginning? 
Mrs. Hill and I would be grateful for any suggestions. We feel 
that this is the psychological moment to follow up what has been 
already done to corner the evil and stamp it out. Any unnecessary 
delay may nullify previous action. 
The gist of the Massachusetts law referred to above is that the 
offense of giving an agent, employee, or servant a discount, com- 
mission, or bonus shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $25.00 
nor more than $500.00 or by imprisonment in the state's prison for 
not more than three years. 
Rose Standish Nichols, Chairman. 
Proposed Summer War 
Activities of Member Clubs 
The Garden Club of Allegheny County will associate itself 
as closely as possible with the already existing Allegheny County 
Farm Bureau. The President of the Club has asked for $10,000 to 
cover the expenses for 1918, the fund to be used for the following 
purposes: 
1. To furnish good seed to the farmers. 
2. To assist the farmers' wives with canning and evaporating 
vegetables and fruit. 
3. To convey county agents and demonstrators about the 
County. 
4. To establish a unit of women workers for farm labor. 
