To these suggestions is added an excerpt from the original min- 
utes of the Annual Meeting: "Mrs. Francis King spoke enthusiasti- 
cally of the Bulletin, but thought it might be made the means of 
better communication between Clubs. She suggested that each Club 
send in each month a typewritten report of its monthly activities — 
speakers at meetings — subjects of meetings — garden pilgrimages; a 
personal interchange should be the important thing. Miss Ernestine 
Goodman emphasized the importance of news. Mrs. Francis Crown- 
inshield thought one article from a celebrity would be acceptable. 
Mrs. Arnold Hague emphasized the importance of literary standards. 
Mrs. Mercer suggested a combination of news and literary articles. 
Mrs. Robert C. Hill recommended a comic section, and Mrs. John 
Newell, a column for Diseases and Remedies of plants, Mrs. Fred- 
erick Greeley wanted the Bulletin to be used as a medium to hear 
from the President. The Chair asked the Editor to appoint persons 
to take charge of the vaiious departments of the enlarged Bulletin 
to relieve her of some of the responsibilities and work." 
If you are interested in any of these things, won't you say so, or 
write an article upon one of them, or offer to conduct a department? 
Tell us what doesn't interest you, too, but remember that we have 
2500 members with apparently 2500 different tastes. Perhaps we 
can't quite please them all, all of the time, but we ought to be able 
to please some of them some of the time and possibly a few of the 
less critical will be pleased all of the time. 
One request is for an annual index, so this issue of the Bulletin 
is numbered, as you see, and its pages begin with one. With the Sep- 
tember issue of next year our first index will be printed. 
Three comments sum up what the Bulletin is and what it hopes 
to be. One member says: "The Bulletin is an amateur magazine, 
written by amateurs, read by amateurs and valuable to amateurs. 
Why attempt to compete with a professional magazine?" Why in- 
deed? For "Mark you," as Mrs. Ewing says in Letters from a 
Little Garden, "Amateur gardener, being interpreted, means gardener 
for love"; and if we are that we should be able to make for ourselves 
a magazine quite different from others, quite outside competition, 
quite necessary to our existence as a club. 
Another says, "Make the Bulletin a necessary adjunct to the 
garden library." Shall we try? 
And last, one says, " It might be a question as to which part of the 
name should be most emphasized in the Bulletin. It sometimes 
seems as if Club outranked Garden." Does it and should it? 
Gardening is a lonesome sport, not like golf or bridge. Its triumphs 
are small and personal, the one that exalts the most the least easy to 
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