office of President meant to the Organization, upon motion the meeting 
adjourned. 
An invitation was extended for a fourth day, which was accepted 
by a number of our enthusiasts. The first visit was paid to the estate 
of Mr. Henry Hunnewell, in Wellesley, where unusual specimens of 
rhododendron were found. This is one of the oldest of our American 
estates. Its treatment along the lake is very suggestive of the old 
gardens of England. The Italian garden of Mrs. Larz Andersen was 
very beautiful with its superb specimens of clipped bays, and its 
luxuriant background of pine growth, dense in its shade, was of very 
great interest. 
Faulkner Farm, the estate of Mrs. Edward Brandigee showed a 
very personal feehng in the gardens. There was a most luxuriant 
growth of Euonymous Radicans, both as vine and ground cover, 
upon the upper slope facing the house, in a grove of sugar maples. 
The interest of the members of the Garden Club of America 
is proved by the success of this Annual Meeting. The Garden Club 
OF America may look forward to increased usefulness, and a very 
healthy growth, if the enthusiasm of the 390 members who attended 
this Annual Meeting may be used as evidence. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Harriet Pratt, 
Secretary of the Garden Club of America. 
An Account of the Gardens Visited During 
the Annual Meeting of 1920. 
How great an occasion our Annual Meeting has come to be is 
attested by the fact that when the roll was called at the First Business 
Meeting only one Club failed to respond, "Present" and together the 
Delegates and Non-delegates were almost 400 strong. They needed 
to be strong, too, as the report herewith submitted will show. 
But fatigue is small payment for perfect days and that Garden 
Club members who missed so rare an opportunity may realize 
what they missed and yet have a vicarious share in the meeting, the 
Bulletin Committee gives a short and inadequate description of each 
garden visited. 
Mrs. Gor- Pines, rugged cliffs, and sea! — It has been said that a garden 
DON Abbott's could not be made in such an environment, but those wiseacres must 
Garden hang their heads in shame when they see the work of the master hand. 
Pine trees gently pushed back to make room for sunlight and air to 
reach the glade where the flowers seemed but to have been waiting 
for a chance to grow. Masses of Foxgloves, pink and white, great 
clumps of purple Lupin, blue Anchusa here and there. 
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