A portion of our time was given to routine business, discussion 
of work with the Civic League (School Gardens), etc., and our part in 
the Annual Flower "Market" to be held around the Monument in 
May. 
I urged our members to attend the meetings of the Garden Club 
OF America, as so much of interest is discussed. 
Alice S. Josephs (Mrs. Lyman Colt Josephs), 
First Vice-President. 
Bedford In planning the programme for the current year the effort of the 
Garden Bedford Garden Club has been to encourage a more general interest in 
Club, planting, gardening and the beautifying of village grounds in the 
New York communities covered by the Club. 
Following out this policy, meetings, at which professional speakers 
address the Club, are now open to non-members. 
Two competitions have been held, one for the best planting of 
annuals — following a talk on annuals given in the early spring by 
Mrs. Frank Hunter Potter — and one for the planting of the grounds 
of the new Community House at Bedford Hills, the latter following 
a lecture on Village Gardens by Mr. Fletcher Steele of Boston. 
The Bedford Garden Club will carry out the successful planting 
plan, and also maintain the grounds for three years. 
Informal Spring and Fall Flower Shows have been held, the ex- 
hibition of vegetables and flowers grown by school children forming an 
interesting feature of the Fall Flower Show. Seeds were distributed 
by the Club in sixteen district schools in the early spring, and two 
hundred children made exhibits. 
A number of informal meetings have been held in members* 
gardens, also a plant exchange. 
The first slides made from photographs of members' gardens have 
been exhibited. 
A Field Day, with the Rye, Philipstown and Ridgefield Clubs, was 
held in September. More than one hundred guests joined the Bedford 
Club and visited gardens in Mt. Kisco, Bedford and Katonah. 
At a meeting held in October Mrs. Charles H. Stout spoke on 
"Dahlias and Their Culture." 
The following Committees have been appointed: — 
Committee on Slides, Committee on Visiting Gardens, Committee on 
Wild Flowers, Bedford Community House Planting Committee. 
Chestnut The most interesting event of the Chestnut Hill Garden Society 
Hill Garden this year was the annual exhibition of plants and flowers, which was 
Society, held at the Chestnut Hill Club House on May 25, 1920. 
Massachu- This exhibition, which completely filled the large hall of the Club- 
setts house, consisted not only of an exceedingly great variety of flowers and 
plants from the several greenliouses of the members but also the early 
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