Although the Annual Meeting ended officially at the Arboretum 
on Thursday afternoon, a number of visitors spent Friday visiting the 
Lars Anderson, Brandigee and Hunnewell estates, generously opened 
on that day to Garden Club members. These will be described in 
the next issue of the Bulletin. 
This account of the gardens visited cannot end without a word 
for the gardeners who have so large a share in the making of a successful 
garden. They must have worked very hard to achieve the perfect 
finish each garden showed and their wilHngness and inteUigence in 
answering questions, showing favorite plants, speUing complicated 
names and giving cultural suggestions added much to the practical 
enjoyment of the visitors. After all, the gardener who puts his con- 
scientious labor and personal interest and enthusiasm into a garden 
becomes part owner of that garden and to him as well as the actual 
owner we owe thanks and appreciation. 
Though to inland visitors Pines and Laurels, sea and sand and 
gray rocks seem beautiful enough without embellishment, the gaiety 
of well-placed gardens is never a jarring note. 
News and Seen and heard at the Annual Meeting: 
Views Universal expression of 
1. Appreciation of the work of our retiring — now our Honorary 
— President, in making the Garden Club of America what it is to-day. 
2. Satisfaction in the choice of her successor. 
3. Pleasure in the never-to-be-forgotten hospitality of the North 
Shore Garden Club of Massachusetts. 
Overheard " Where is my delegate? " 
ON THE "My dear, I don't know. One of mine has changed her hat this 
Shore Path afternoon and I can't see her anywhere. " 
(Note: for the next Annual Meeting might not the duties of a 
hostess be simplified if she asked her special group of guests to wear 
salmon pink en masse — or mauve, or saffron yellow or any other good 
garden shade she might prefer. Certainly a strict ruhng should be 
made that no delegate bring more than one hat. This might equalize 
the position of non-delegates and delegates; the millinery supremacy 
of the one compensating for the voting power of the other.) 
In the interest of amateur gardeners particularly addicted to 
weeding we noted the double garden border twelve feet wide and seven 
hundred feet long — with fourteen hundred feet of flower bed to be 
cultivated. 
The enthusiasm of a sales- woman in a North Shore pharmacy who 
met a would-be purchaser (a delegate wearing a badge) with, "So 
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