ordered a PMox or Dahlia from several nurseries under the same 
name you were disappointed sometimes to find them different in 
color or shape from what you anticipated. Last spring needing more 
Anton Mercier Phlox I ordered several dozen from the same lirm 
from whom I had ordered the year before; later, when they bloomed 
only a few were what I expected them to be. Why would it not be a 
simple but very far reaching matter, if every Garden Club throughout 
the country were to undertake to perfect one annual, one perennial 
and one native plant, choosing of course those which do unusually 
well in their district? 
Think how far reaching this would prove and what results might 
be obtained should we all work in unison. Suppose for instance the 
Garden Club of Easthampton should grow a true Belladonna Del- 
phinium, a pale pink Zinnia, and our own native Asclepias Tuberosa 
or butterfly weed; that in a few )'ears we could be depended on to 
supply perfect seeds and plants of one color, one name and one tj^je, 
that we in turn could also procure perhaps a mauve Phlox and a cream 
Snapdragon from the Lake Forest Club, and a blue Petunia and a pink 
Michaelmas Aster from Lenox and so on throughout the country? 
It does not seem to me too much to say that in a few years the Clubs 
could trade or sell plants and seeds to each other and also to the 
nurserymen who in their turn could grow fields of known varieties 
and sell them to the general public. 
The Garden Club of Easthampton has already formed an en- 
thusiastic committee to try to carry out this idea, which I am sure 
will entail but little trouble and expense. We have already sent to 
several firms in England for the Belladonna Delphiniimi seeds and 
from the softest pink Zinnia seeds we have saved ourselves we hope 
to make a beginning this spring. We have also chosen as our native 
plant the Asclepias Tuberosa whose gorgeous orange shines so magnifi- 
cently along our roadsides and in our fields. 
The Garden Clubs have accomplished so much in the past, why 
cannot they become true gardeners in the future, real gardeners per- 
fecting and creating? Harriet Shelton Hollister, 
Garden Club of Easthampton. 
A Notable An exceptional exhibition of Begonias was recently enjoyed by 
Begonia lovers of this plant when Edwin S. Webster of Chestnut Hill, Mass., 
Collection invited a number of those interested to view his choice collection. 
This collection was started about nine years ago and since then the 
latest introductions, imported from England and France, have been 
added from time to time. Strict selection of the best varieties and 
careful treatment under the intelligent direction of Peter Arnott, 
