This is the Spring Planting number of the Bulletin. We hope 
that it finds you impatient for Spring. 
But since this is written on a zero day and the catalogue garden- 
ing of the editor is completed she has determined to do a little edi- 
torial Spring Planting not inconsistent with the cold and piercing 
weather. 
Dear fellow-members, have you a little corner in your mind where 
one might plant a meek suggestion that when you write to the editor 
reproving her for wrongly addressing your Bulletin, that you do 
not write on your Club paper giving no further address and signing 
yourself Mary Q. Smith? Will it take root in ground, too rich, per- 
haps, for so ordinary a plant? 
Is there a sunny stretch in your heart where co-operation seeds 
would germinate promptly and well? The Bulletin doesn't want 
to be one of those houses that will look all right when the vines and 
shrubs get a good start. It wants something from you to make it 
always gay and interesting and constructively sound. 
Have you a stony place in your character where a few sharp 
criticisms might flourish for a season? We shall not let them grow 
unheeded but unless you tell us where they are hidden we cannot root 
them out. 
There are other dehcate flowers and noxious weeds for which 
Trial Grounds are editorially sought. Will you think yourself over 
and forward, carefully packed, coherently worded, samples to show 
past accomplishments, offers to promote future experiments? 
K.L.B. 
A Letter from Mr. E. H. Wilson 
Arnold Arboretum 
Harvard University, Feb. gth, ig2o. 
Dear Mrs. Brewster: — Replying to yours of February 6th, re- 
Quarantine No. 37, I gladly avail myself of the opportunity to set 
before you, and through you the Garden Club of America, the 
effect of this drastic measure on American horticulture as I see it. 
For more than twenty years I have been engaged in introducing to 
the gardens of this country and Europe new plant material and was 
under the impression that the work was beneficial to this and future 
generations until I was abruptly brought face to face with the ruhngs 
of the Federal Horticultural Board. I feel that the far-reaching effect 
of Quarantine No. 37 is not properly understood by the amateur nor 
by the Horticultural Societies whose interests are his. It is these 
interests that are threatened with extinction for, just as it is impossible 
