Tiitionium County Fair in the fall, for exhibits of flowers and 
vegetables. 
This has been our first year under a revised set of by-laws. 
In addition, our President, Mrs. Louis O'Donnell, inaugurated 
a committee system of government by which the different activ- 
ities of the Club were looked after by six committees, each com- 
posed of a chairman and two members, thus creating a body of 
interested and active members larger than ever before. 
Mrs. Ernest D. Levering 
Recording Secretary. 
RYE GARDEN CLUB 
From March 1, 1921 to October 11th, 1921, inclusive, the 
Rye Garden Club held six regular and five special meetings. 
The regular meetings included : 
1. — A lecture by Miss Alderson. 
2. — A lecture by Mr. Gilbert Pearson on Birds — (to this the 
children of members were invited). 
3. — An illustrated lecture by Mr. Loring Underwood on 
the Arnold Arboretum. 
4. — A talk by Mr. Otto Thilow on Practical Gardening, and 
5. — A plant exchange held on June 1st, 1921. 
The special meetings consisted of two field days, an evening 
meeting to which the husbands of club members were invited, 
and at which colored slides were shown of the Rye, North Shore 
and Illinois Gardens, and two flower shows, one of which was 
the combined flower show held June 15, 1921 at the Purchase 
Community House participated in by the Garden Clubs of Rye, 
New Canaan, Ridgefield, Mt. Kisco and Greenwich. 
On May 15th, 1921 the Rye Garden Club acted as the host- 
ess club to the Garden Club of America. 
Under public enterprises a lecture was given at the Public 
School in Rye during the spring of 1921, on the preservation of 
wild flowers, and the Rye Library was supplied with flowers by 
club members during the three summer months. 
The Chairman of the Slides Committee has had fourteen 
aew colored slides prepared of the Rye Gardens, making twenty- 
seven slides in all now available. 
Grace W. T. Putnam, President. 
1920 and 1921. 
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