Bulletin of 
^be (3arben Club 
of Hmerica 
September, 1920 No. VI (New Series) 
President ist Vice-President 
MRS. S. V. R. CROSBY MRS. SAMUEL SLOAN 
9S Beacon Street, Boston and 45 E. ssd Street, New York, and 
Manchester, Mass. Garrison, New York 
Treasurer 2nd Vice-President 
MRS. HUGH D. AUCHINCLOSS MRS. JOHN A. STEWART, Jr. 
33 E. 67TH Street, New York, and Short Hills, New Jersey 
Newport, R. I. ^^ Vice-President 
Secretary MRS. SAMUEL H. TAFT 
MRS. HAROLD I. PRATT 3329 Morrison Avenue 
820 Fifth Ave., New York, and Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio 
Glen Cove, L. I. ^^^ Vice-President 
Librarian MRS. FRANCIS B. CROWINSHIELD 
MRS. FREDERICK L. RHODES 164 Marlboro St., Boston, Mass., 
Short Hills, N. J. and Marslehead, Mass. 
Editor 
MRS. WALTER S. BREWSTER 
1220 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, and Lake Forest, Illinois 
The objects of this association shall be: to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening among 
amateurs; to share the advantages of association, through conference and correspondence in this 
country and abroad; to aid in the protection of native plants and birds; and to encourage civic planting. 
Hay 
Yesterday's flowers am I, 
And I have drunk my last sweet draught of dew. 
Young maidens came and sang me to my death; 
The moon looks down and sees me in my shroud, 
The shroud of my last dew. 
My breath is sweet as children's prattle is; 
I drank in all tJte whole earth's fruitfulness. 
To htake of it the fragrance of my soul 
That shall outlive my death. 
Now to the morrow's flowers will I say: 
" Dear children of my roots! 
I charge you love the sun as I have loved, 
And love the lovers and the little birds. 
That when ye bloom anew, 
They never may remember I am dead, 
But always think they see the self-same flowers; 
Even as the sun that ever thinks he sees 
The self-same birds and lovers upon earth. 
Because he is immortal, and for this 
Never remembers death." 
— H£lene Vacakesco 
