agree to supply help or not, seems to be a moot question at present. 
It seems to be the generally accepted idea that lawns shall not be 
cut, except possibly for three or four feet bordering the edges of an 
important drive. 
Garden Association in Newport. The war activities of the 
Garden Association in Newport last summer were as follows : 
First: Starting community gardens which proved so successful 
that a Mayor's Committee was formed for the same object, whereupon 
the Garden Association having shown the way, a member of it was 
appointed on the Mayor's Committee and their work ceased. 
Second: A market once a week on the grounds of the Garden 
Association, the vegetables, flowers and fruit coming from the surplus 
of gardens belonging to members of the Association. The produce 
was sold at less than the current price to people of small means. 
The sum of money made went half to the American Red Cross and 
half to the fund for devastated orchards in France. 
This year the Garden Association has formed a sub-committee 
which will take up community gardens. Part of the produce will be 
given to the market and the rest to canning centers established by 
the Chairman of the Newport Food Conservation Committee who is 
also the President of the Garden Association. 
A unit of Women Workers is also being started on a small scale 
with the possibility of enlargement should the demand for such farm 
laborers increase. 
The Garden Club of Orange and Dutchess Counties held a 
special meeting on the fourth of March, at which was discussed the 
feasibility of establishing units of the Women's Land Army in our 
two counties. 
The President, Mrs. Samuel Verplanck, reported that several 
people in her vicinity were not unfavorable to the idea of women on 
the farms. She appointed a committee for further investigation in 
Dutchess County and several committees for various localities in 
Orange to discover the feeling of the farmers there, and it was decided 
that the Club would establish at least two or three units in the parts 
of the two counties covered by our membership if the committees 
reported favorably. All of the reports are not yet in but those received 
are promising, and our club is looking forward to a summer of united 
patriotic work, something difiicult for us to accomplish hitherto on 
account of our widely separated homes. 
