Garden Club News 
Garden Club Meeting December ist, 1919 
Much interest was manifested at the meeting of the Garden Club 
at the Colony Club, New York, on December i, 1919. Twenty-nine 
Member Clubs were represented and there was a lively exchange of 
opinions. 
Many of the decisions reached are recorded under committee 
reports, general information, etc. A resume follows of replies to 
the questionnaire sent out in the autumn to all Clubs. 
Replies In reply to the first question asking, whether a general program 
to for each year's work to be followed by all Clubs would be acceptable, 
Ques- the consensus of opinions was that each Club preferred to be re- 
tionnaire sponsible for its own programs. 
The second suggestion, that each Club make a collection of garden 
slides, met with great enthusiasm and the progress made by the 
committee is recorded elsewhere. 
The matter of visiting cards, proposed in the third suggestion, 
is welcomed by most of the Clubs, but as a very careful plan must be 
made, the final report was deferred until all suggestions could be 
carefully tabulated and details worked out. A book will undoubtedly 
be issued giving the names of gardens that may be visited, how they 
may be reached and at what hour they mil be open. 
Answers to the fourth question disclosed the fact that few original 
papers are being written by members, a result which Mrs. Martin 
deplored. 
There has been little objection on the part of Member Clubs, to 
paying the per capita assessment of $1.50 to meet Garden Club 
expenses. Only four Clubs have felt unable to send the additional 
amount. 
Resolu- The following Resolution, which explains itself, was unhesitatingly 
tions adopted: 
- Against 
Billboards Resolution for the Garden Club of America Against 
Billboard Campaign of the Society of American Florists 
Whereas, The Society of American Florists. John Young, Secretar}% 
1170 Broadway, New York City, has begun an advertising campaign with 
billboards twenty feet long by seven feet high, bearing their slogan "Sav 
It with Flowers" to be placed in conspicuous places over this country. 
and; 
Whereas, Eighty-seven of these Ijillboards have already been ordered 
and the society is urging all its members to buy and set them up over 
America; 
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