Preservation of Wild Flowers. Mrs. Francis C. Farwell, Lake 
Forest, Illinois. Garden Club of Illinois. 
Slides. Mrs. Samuel Sloan, 45 East 53rd Street, N. Y. C. and 
Garrison, N. Y. Philipstown Garden Club. 
Visiting Gardens. Mrs. Oakleigh Thorne, Millbrook, N. Y. and 
Santa Barbara, Calif. Millbrook Garden Club. 
Programme. Mrs. Robert C. HiU, 960 Park Avenue, N. Y. C. and 
East Hampton, L. I. East Hampton Garden Club. 
The Emily D. Renwick Medal Award. Mrs. Francis King, Alma, 
Michigan. Garden Club of Michigan. 
Finance. Mrs. Horatio Gates Lloyd, Haverford, Pennsylvania. 
Garden Club of Montgomery & Delaware Counties. 
International Relations. Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, 1220 Lake 
Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, and Lake Forest, 111. 
Legislative. Mrs. William Pierson Hamilton, 32 E. 36th-St. N. Y.C. 
and Sterlington, N. Y. Garden Club of Orange & Dutchess 
Counties. 
Arboretum. Mrs. Francis B. Crowninshield, 154 Marlboro 
Street, Boston, Mass. North Shore Garden Club. 
Upon motion duly made, seconded and carried the organization of 
these Committees was confirmed. 
Mrs. S. V. R. Crosby, of the North Shore Garden Club, Massachu- 
setts, newly elected President, expressed her appreciation of the 
honor which had been conferred upon her. She asked that the Direc- 
tors feel free to express their suggestions in regard to the policy of the 
Organization. 
The question of how knowledge could best be conveyed to the 
Member Clubs, in regard to the poUcy of the National Organization, 
was discussed. It was stated that the attention of the Presidents 
of the Member Clubs should be called to the fact that they were the 
clearing house of information from the National Organization to the 
members of their Clubs; that they, as far as possible, share this in- 
formation with their members, and recommended to them the read- 
ing of the Bulletin, so that each member of the Garden Club of 
America might keep in touch with the progress of the work of the 
National Organization. 
The Chair appointed Mrs. Oakleigh Thorne, of the Millbrook Gar- 
den Club, the Chairman of a Committee of five Presidents, the other 
four to be chosen by Mrs. Thorne to draw up a letter signed by this 
Committee which would outline to the Presidents in what way they 
could further the object of the Garden Club of America, and 
suggesting to them that they share the communications from the 
National Office with their members. 
There was a discussion as to how many general meetings should 
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