Club of Michigan, represented by Mrs. Francis King, Mrs. Andrew H. 
Green and Mrs. W. J. Chittenden, the Garden Club of Orange and 
Dutchess Counties, New York, represented by Mrs. Alfred Ely, the 
Garden Club of Philadelphia, represented by Mrs. C. Stewart Patter- 
son, Mrs. J. WilHs Martin, Mrs. Charles Biddle, Mrs. Bayard Henry, 
Mrs. Henry Middleton Fisher, Mrs. B. Franklin Pepper, and Miss 
Ernestine Goodman, the Garden Club of Princeton, New Jersey, 
represented by Mrs. Archibald Russell and Mrs. Allan Marquand, the 
Short Hills Garden Club, New Jersey, represented by Mrs. John A. 
Stewart, Jr. and Mrs. Edward B. Ren wick, the Garden Club of War- 
renton, Virginia, represented by Mrs. Samuel A. Appleton and the 
Weeders of Pennsylvania, represented by Miss Ellen Wilhams, were 
the twelve founders. 
The prehminary meeting of god-mothers was held at Mrs. Bayard 
Henry's, after a most delicious luncheon fragrant with flowers, with 
pictures of beautiful old "Wick" at our places and the pinkest of 
tablets and pencils to make our notes couleur de rose. At dessert 
Mrs. Patterson graciously welcomed the guests and read Mrs. Wool- 
ston's poem — The Guild of the Gardeners — of which we are justly 
proud. A draft of the objects of the general Club was oflFered for 
discussion, and Mrs. Martin then presented two methods of organiza- 
tion; the first, on informal and strictly social Hnes, the other broadly 
undertaken in the certainty of great future expansion. The object 
of the Club was voted on as a whole and accepted. It was voted that 
each Club should keep its own type of membership. A plan to organize 
on a state basis was not approved on the ground of possible local 
jealousies. SimpUcity of organization was recommended. The title 
of the new League was discussed and several names proposed for 
ballot. The meaning of the word Guild was discussed. 
A ballot making Mrs. C. Stuart Patterson, Honorary President, 
Mrs. J. WilKs Martin, President, and Miss Goodman, Secretary and 
Treasurer, was carried. Mrs. Ely of New York, Mrs. Russell of 
New Jersey, Mrs. King of Michigan, and Mrs. Brewster of IlHnois 
were elected Vice-Presidents. 
It was voted to make the dues fifty cents per capita. All further 
organization was left to the Executive Committee. Here ended the 
first day, and the meeting adjourned to the motors, having stroUed 
in Mrs. Henry's garden with much pleasure before luncheon. 
Visiting first Mrs. Woodward's place, where the dog-woods and 
the wall garden were in magnificent bloom, then Mrs. Taylor's gardens, 
smnptuously enclosed in the great box- wood hedges.and passing through 
Mrs. Clark's lovely place of which we saw all too httle, we finally 
congregated for tea at Mrs. Willing's, where other ladies were invited 
to meet our guests. Surely never was any organization so agreeably 
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