first. Raspberries — a fruit very difficult to preserve fresh — after 
fourteen days of the treatment were as fresh as when the experiment 
was started, and, moreover, they retained this freshness for four days 
after removal from the preserving chamber, thus allowing time for the 
marketing of the fruit. — Reprinted from The Garden. 
At the meeting of the Council of Presidents held in New York on 
March 15, 1918, the following clubs were elected to membership in 
The Garden Club of America: 
Name — The Garden Club of Santa Barbara, California. 
President — Mrs. James Mauran Rhodes. 
Address — Santa Barbara, California. 
Secretary — Mrs. J. Hobart Moore. 
Address — Santa Barbara, California. 
Name — The Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club. 
President — Mrs. Fairfax Harrison. 
Address — Belvoir House, Belvoir, Virginia. 
Secretary — Mrs. D. C. Sands, Jr. 
Address — "Benton," Middleburg, Virginia. 
Extracts from a Letter 
from Mrs. Ballington Booth 
Reprinted from the Florists^ Exchange. 
In Favor of Flower Gardening 
"I am indeed glad that you have written to me. We certainly 
must be kindred spirits. My flower garden is my greatest rest when 
I have gone through deep sorrow. Both my husband and I in the 
summer-time spend every spare hour working in our garden. 
I need hardly tell you that the hours are not many. A day or 
two days a week and then sometimes not as much as that, but they 
are wonderful in the real, healthful enjoyment they bring. 
I think that it is foolish in the extreme to talk of the raising of 
flowers as an unpatriotic pursuit. I wish you could have seen how my 
daughter, the president of the Girls' National Honor Guard, went 
through my garden this summer and fall, stripping it of Roses, Dahlias 
and everything else she could gather for the sick boys in our Naval 
Hospital, and how gallantly it responded to this war need and bloomed 
again each day. Right up to frost we were cutting baskets of flowers 
for these boys. 
