THE NORTH SHORE GARDEN CLUB 
OF MASSACHUSETTS 
The North Shore Garden Club sends in its annual report 
with some diffidence — it is so meagre and so unpublic-spirited in 
appearance! We have held ten meetings this year, to only one 
of which we can point with any civic pride — that given under the 
auspices of the Wild Flower Committees of both this Club and 
the Chestnut Hill Garden Society. It was given in Horticultural 
Hall, Boston, in the spring, and was a most interestingly illustrat- 
ed informal talk on wild flowers and birds, and the hall was 
crammed to overflowing. 
The other nine meetings were all of the simplest sort, original 
papers provided by the members, followed by more or less ani- 
mated discussion. 
When we read the reports of other clubs with the accounts 
of their excellent civic or neighborhood benevolences, their 
flower shows, their markets, their lectures, all their public activ- 
ities, we hang our heads, and have to remind ourselves that it is 
difficult to be neighborly — or civic — in eleven different townships 
and five large cities — the geographical confines of our member- 
ship ! 
Such local horticultural organizations as there are on the 
North Shore we do try to encourage ; but we feel that our club 
is of necessity primarily for the edification and pleasure of its 
own members — Hence, these short and simple annals ! 
Elinor Hopkinson 
(Mrs. Charles Hopkinson) 
THE ORANGE AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES 
GARDEN CLUB 
The meetings of the Club have numbered ten during the 
year. In July we made an exhibit, and sale of flowers and seed- 
lings for the benefit of the "Old Homestead" fair in Cornwall, 
with bestowal of prizes among such village folk as exhibited, 
which resulted to the advantage of the Homestead Association 
in a substantial amount. 
We responded to the appeal of the "National Plant, FhDwer 
and Fruit Guild," becoming financially responsible for five Gar- 
dens. These small gardens were conducted and cared for in the 
city by young persons of the poorer class who were supplied with 
tools, seeds, material for enrichment of the soil, etc. 
The lamentable condition of the highways, caused chiefly 
by motorists has been studied with regard law and expediency. 
We believe that much may be done by the "Mounted State 
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