Edilorial staff of the Bulletin are also invited. All other members may 
attend as non-delegates and are very welcome, as their presence is an evidence 
of interest and enthusiasm. 
In response to requests from many members, to facilitate future arrange- 
ments and to meet the convenience of both delegates and non-delegates the follow- 
ing motion has been passed by the Executive Committee: 
That officers of the Garden Club of America, members of the Editorial 
staff of the Bulletin, and duly appointed delegates shall be the official guests 
of the Hostess Club. The aforementioned members should address questions 
to Mrs. S. V. R. Crosby, Manchester, Massachusetts. 
That non-delegates and member s-at-large are cordially urged to attend 
the Annual Meeting unofficially and shall be welcome to all gardens open, 
to the Club and may attend the business meetings, though they may not vote. 
That a special committee of the Hostess Club shall form a Committee on 
Arrangements for non-delegates, and members-at-large, the duties of said 
committee to be to give information on hotel accommodations, rental of motors, 
routes, meals and so forth. This committee has been appointed tvith Mrs. 
Gardiner M. Lane, Manchester, Massachusetts, as Chairman, to whom, non- 
delegates and members-at-large should address questions. 
That all delegates and non-delegates, and members-at-large shall be 
responsible for their own hotel expenses. 
No member of the Garden Club of America will receive her 
badge unless she has sent her proper card of introduction to the Hostess 
Club, and presents in person the duplicate of the corresponding 
number at the office designated by the Hostess Club. Cards for 
presidents or alternates, duly appointed delegates, and non-delegates 
will be issued only upon application of the Presidents of the Member 
Clubs to the Secretary of the Garden Club of America, Mrs. 
Harold Irving Pratt, 820 Fifth Avenue, New York. Cards for the 
national officers and the Editorial staff of the Bulletin of the 
Garden Club of America and for members-at-large will be issued 
directly to them by the Secretary of the Garden Club of America. 
It is essential that all Club members who expect to attend the meeting 
notify the North Shore Garden Club not later than May 2jth. 
Wild Gardening '^ 
Gertrude Jekyll, V.M.H. 
It is only within the last forty years that we have become aware 
of the possibility of extending our gardening into the wild, and it 
seems strange that it should be so, because already in Tudor times 
it was foreshadowed as a regular garden practice. Thus, we read in 
Bacon's Essays, in his ordering of a stately garden of some thirty 
acres, there is first the quiet green forecourt leading to the house, 
then the main garden, and lastly the "Heath or Desart in the going 
forth." And though in this "heath," some of his planting, of standard 
roses and shaped evergreens is such as we should now reject, yet we 
cannot improve upon his counsel to have thickets of Sweetbriars and 
Honeysuckle and on the ground Thyme for its sweetness when crushed 
underfoot. 
