Fauquier and The Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club during the summer of 
Loudoun 1919 devoted itself mainly to encouraging its members to grow more 
Gakden Club and better flowers, and in spite of lack of labor, and the absence of 
OF VfRGiNTA gardeners, held an exhibition of flowers at each of its meetings, in 
competition for a handsome silver cup, which was won by a member 
with a score of 1,000 points. 
The Garden Club inaugurated a series of Neighborhood Flower 
Shows, with a very successful show at Upperville in June. 
Plans for a small Arboretum of native trees, shrubs and flowers, to 
be established and cared for by the Garden Club, were under dis- 
cussion and it is hoped can be developed later on. 
The event of the year 1920 was the Sylvan Masque, "Royalty and 
Romany. " presented by the Garden Club in May. It was written by 
one of its members and staged by her, with the assistance of the Fox- 
croft School, in a lovely forest setting, which embodied after a fashion 
the Garden Club confession of faith, that nature is more than art, in 
any age, in any clime. 
The Flower Contest was continued, and the cup won by another 
member, must be competed for in 192 1, as it has to be won twice by a 
mem.ber before it is hers permanently. The Garden Club plans for 
192 1 include a Slide Contest, the best subjects to be sent to the Garden 
Club of America's Committee on Slides; a Committee to arrange 
excursions to nearby gardens of interest, and a Committee to provide 
roadside sign-posts for the most important cross-roads and lanes in the 
territory covered by the Garden Club's membership in these two 
counties, and to remove objectionable advertisements and other sign- 
boards wherever it is feasible. 
Greenwich The Greenwich Garden Club of Greenwich, Connecticut, is in its 
Garden seventh year and has a membership Umited to sixty active members, 
Club, the requirements being that " The membership of the Club shall consist 
Connecticut of women actively engaged in gardening." 
We have held meetings monthly from April to November at the 
homes of members, when the business of the Club is taken up and after 
its conclusion we Hsten to prearranged lectures on some special subject, 
or to papers read by our own members. 
In addition to these stated meetings we have had special meetings 
known as "Field Days," when members visited several nearby gar- 
dens. On these occasions we sometimes have visited as many as four or 
five gardens in one afternoon, eliciting new ideas from the many points 
of view thus presented. 
During the past year our Club has planted and arranged a hardy 
border of flowers, shrubs and trees on the grounds of the Greenwich 
General Hospital. This work is to be maintained and continued under 
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