possible call which the active prosecution of the war will make on the 
retail trade. 
The flower business is fortunate in that it is able to use women to 
such good advantage. In some lines it is difficult to replace men with 
women, though this is being done more and more, by virtue of neces- 
sity; but women fit right into the flower business, no matter in what 
department the vacancy may occur. Some of the most successful 
growers and retailers are women, and it goes without saying that they 
are able to handle subordinate positions in these departments to good 
advantage. 
It would be hard to say that woman is inferior in any branch of the 
business, and in the selling end especially women have a certain knack 
that is very valuable. The natural good taste of many women helps 
immensely in displaying the stock in the windows and elsewhere. 
Consequently, even though the war takes some of the men from 
the ranks of the salespeople in flower shops, their places should be 
filled satisfactorily by members of the other sex. And in this fact, as 
suggested above, the trade is fortunate compared with most. 
On the Saturday of the week of the Y. M. C. A. drive, Chicago 
florists generously organized and furnished flowers for a sale at the 
Art Institute. Ladies interested in the work sold the flowers and a 
very large sum was realized. The time, energy, and really beautiful 
plants and cut flowers donated by the florists gave evidence of great 
patriotic interest. 
Reports of Work Planned and Accomplished 
by Member Clubs 
Garden Club of Allegheny County 
The members responded nobly to the idea of increasing their 
vegetable gardens, some even ploughing up lawns which, while it may 
not have resulted in great harvests must have been an object lesson 
in the necessity of producing food. Members having coimtry places 
put all available space into vegetables, and some very productive 
gardens resulted. 
The feeling was strong that we should be taught how to make 
our summer gardens winter gardens as well, and that we must learn 
conservation. A coromittee was appointed to investigate the best 
means to attain this end, and Mrs. Henry Rae undertook to finance 
the endeavor. As a result, Mrs. McDermott, a graduate of Drexel 
Institute, was employed as instructor. In the Domestic Science 
rooms of the Sewickley Public School, daily and two evening classes 
were held, and thirty public demonstrations given. Two hundred and 
