The Secretary was ordered to notify by mail those who could 
not be notified verbally of their election. 
Upon motion the meeting adjourned. 
On the third day we visited the place of Mrs. William C. Endicott, 
at Danvers, where the entrance avenue of elms was very beautiful. 
The Tea House, built in 1793, at the entrance of the rose garden was 
exceedingly picturesque, and we were much interested in the superb 
Tulip Tree in the center of the garden walk. 
The Lindens, fittingly named from the handsome avenue of 
Hndens at the entrance, is owned by Mrs. Ward Thoron. Here our 
interest was centered in the house itself which, built in 1753, was filled 
with most beautiful mantels and interesting old wall papers. 
We motored by way of Nahant, where we saw the charmingly 
terraced gardens of Mrs. Guild, and Mrs. Richardson, to the Brook- 
Hne Country Club, where we were the guests at luncheon of a large 
number of the members of the North Shore Garden Club. 
The enthusiasm of the members was greatly stimulated by the Annual 
announcement at this luncheon that at the Annual Meeting of 192 1, Meetings 
the Garden Club of America was invited to be the guest of the Al- of 1921 
bermarle Garden Club, at Charlottesville, Virginia. 
After luncheon, we motored to the Arnold Arboretum, where, 
at half past four o'clock, the first Medal of Honourary Award of the 
Garden Club of America was presented to Professor Charles Sprague 
Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum. The presentation 
ceremony was held upon the steps of the Administration Building 
of the Arnold Arboretum. Mrs. Harold Irving Pratt, a member of the 
Committee for the selection of the Medal of Honourary Award, and 
Secretary of the Garden Club of America presented the Medal. 
Mrs. Pratt spoke as follows : 
Medal Presentation Speech 
In 1868, through the foresight of two of the Trustees of the estate 
of Benjamin Arnold of New Bedford, a bequest of 100,000 dollars was 
turned over to Harvard University, for the establishment of an 
Arboretum. The agreement read, that every tree and every shrub 
able to endure the climate of Massachusetts should be grown there. 
At the time Harvard received this bequest it already owned lands 
which could be used for the purpose. Fortunately these lands, and 
the adjoining tracts which were afterwards added, were picturesque, 
and included hills, and a lovely httle valley, meadow land, and wood- 
land with large primeval trees. 
In 1872 Harvard University created a Chair of Arboriculture and 
appointed its first Professor, Charles Sprague Sargent. Because of 
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