THE WARRENTON GARDEN CLUB 
The Warrenton Garden Club has just completed its four- 
teenth year. We have had the usual variety of meetings and 
lectures, but our greatest pleasure was being hostess at the annual 
meeting of the Garden Clubs of Virginia, and the next day visit- 
ing the Fauquier and Loudoun gardens. 
There are nine Virginia clubs in -this Federation and one 
hundred and twenty members were present at the annual meeting. 
Our greatest achievement will be the planting of our Court 
House Square and Main Street with Norway maples. The trees 
are ordered and grudging permission from the town council se- 
cured, so the work should be done when this is in print. 
Fourteen colored slides were sent to the Garden Club of 
America and four members were present at the annual meeting 
in Philadelphia. 
Mary P. A. Appleton. 
President. 
WASHINGTON GARDEN CLUB 
Among the activities and privileges of the season 1920-21 
were the following: 
A delightful meeting with six other clubs at Thorndale at 
the invitation of Mrs. Oakleigh Thorne. 
A wild flower preservation meeting. 
Lecture on "What is New in the Garden" by Mr. Edward 
J. Farrington. (Valuable to all clubs). 
A meeting discussing Garden Club of America matters. 
Mrs. Gage of Litchfield assisted at this. 
A fascinating talk on ferns by Professor Evans of the Yale 
Botany Department. 
Newspaper publicity in regard to preserving wild flowers. 
A letter to the Society of Landscape Architects calling at- 
tention to the use of laurel in their last exhibition and the need 
of conserving it. A courteous reply came requesting literature 
on preservation. This was sent. 
Establishing the La Rue Holmes Nature League in the 
schools through the field agent Mrs. Turton, who spoke convinc- 
ingly and aroused the children's interest. 
Exhibition of slides showing gardens of sister clubs and 
discussion of books on garden subjects. 
Our "community work" took the form of presenting books 
to the village library and the village green with good looking 
waste paper baskets of iron. 
M. V. K. Shipman 
President, 1920-21. 
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