Bulletin of 
Zhc (3ar5en Club 
of Hmerica 
January, 1918 
No. XXIII 
President 
MRS. J. WILLIS MARTIN 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia 
Treasurer 
MRS. H. D. AUCHINCLOSS 
33 E. 67TH Street, New York and 
Newport, R. I. 
Secretary 
MRS. BAYARD HENRY 
Germantown, Philadelphia 
Librarian 
MISS ERNESTINE A. GOODMAN 
Chesti^t Hill, Philadelphia 
Vice-Presidents 
MRS. ARCHIBALD D. RUSSELL 
34 E. 36TH Street, New York and 
Princeton, New Jersey 
MRS. WILLIAM CABELL BRUCE • 
8 Mt. Vernon Pl., Baltimore, Md. 
and Ruxton, Md. 
MRS. FRANCIS KING 
Alma, Michigan 
MRS. JOHN E. NEWELL 
West Mentor, Ohio 
Editor 
MRS. WALTER S. BREWSTER 
1220 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, and Lake Forest, Illinois 
The objects of this association shall be: to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening among 
amateurs; to share the advantages of association, tlirough conference and correspondence in this 
country and abroad; to aid in the protection of native plants and birds; and to encourage civic planting. 
New Year's, 1918 
We shall not see this New Year as of old 
A timid infant at the gates of Time. 
But as a figure beckoning sublime, 
Pointing us to our destiny, unrolled 
In widening fields of service manifold. 
We, the strong women of the nation, now 
Must put our willing shoulders to the plow. 
And plant the grain that brings the harvests' gold. 
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Forget ignoble ease, for now is hurled 
A challenge. Ours not only to keep bright 
The olden fires, to do the quiet tasks 
Of household routine. This Year coming asks 
That we shall help the warrior swords to smite, 
Shall clothe the naked, feed the hungry World, 
— Anne Higginson Spicer 
