October Meeting 
The next general meeting of the Garden Club of America will 
be held in New York on Thursday and Friday, October 7th and 8th. 
The schedule is as follows: 
Council of Presidents. Morning of October 7th 
Executive Committee and Board Meeting 
Afternoon of October vth 
General Meeting Morning of October 8th 
Lecture Afternoon of October 8th 
The place of meeting, hours of meetings and subject of the lecture 
will be sent later to all Club members. 
Since Mrs. Crosby is sailing for Europe on Saturday, October gth 
to be gone some months the meeting is an important one and a large 
attendance is desired. 
A Message from the President 
I shall hereafter in each issue of the Bulletin take the opportunity 
of saying a few words as to what we should work towards in the 
Garden Club or America. 
Now that we are becoming such a large body of members and ex- 
tend over such a vast territory, it is very necessary to have some 
common bond to keep us all together. To my mind the Coimcil of 
Presidents should be this bond and at their meetings should bring 
before their fellow Presidents any subject that an individual Club feels 
that the Club as a whole should adopt or act upon. If this Council 
could meet three times a year, once in the Spring, once in the Fall and 
at the Annual Meeting, any motion passed by it could at once be pre- 
sented to the Executive Committee and Board of Directors to be dis- 
cussed and, if approved, brought before the Club as a whole. 
My idea would be to have the Council of Presidents meet in the 
morning of the day previous to the general meeting, to be followed in 
the afternoon by the Executive Committee and Directors' Meetings, 
and there the various questions which had arisen in individual Clubs, 
where they concern the Club as a whole, would come up for dis- 
cussion and be voted upon. Any question considered of sufficient 
importance could be presented to the Club as a whole the following 
day. 
The chairmen of Committees would also make their reports at 
these Directors' Meetings and thus could be eliminated the pa;rts of 
their reports which would not be of general interest to the Club. 
If each President will bring the suggestion of this form of procedure 
before his or her individual Club it will, I think, result in condensing 
and hastening the business part of the general meetings. 
