Took our guests to the Rose Garden and also to the gardens of Mrs. 
G. C. Williams and Miss Alice Foster. 
Mrs. Robert W. Gray, President, Hartford Garden Club. 
In June, 191 9, it was our privilege to entertain, at the Annual The Garden 
Meeting, the Garden Club of America. That was to us an occasion Club of 
of inspiration and keen deUght which greatly enhanced our interest in Illinois 
Garden Club work. 
In July we held a View Day, when our gardens were opened to 
neighboring Clubs not members of the Garden Club of America. 
We contributed $1,000 to the City Gardens Association and sent to 
Fort Sheridan Hospital a large quantity of shrubs and plants which 
were cultivated by convalescent soldiers. Our programme for regular 
meetings included lectures on Wild Flower Preservation, the Arnold 
Arboretum and Forest Preserves. 
Alice K. Carpenter, Vice President, iqiq. 
In 1920 there were eight regular meetings, with papers by experts 
in horticulture. At the October meeting we had the pleasure of receiv- 
ing the Garden Club of Lake Geneva as our guests. 
During the summer a Flower Market was held every Saturday 
morning under a gay awning, by the fountain, in Market Square, Lake 
Forest. It was a charming and successful feature of the village life. 
The proceeds will be used for improvements in a children's playground. 
A contest for the plan of a model small dooryard has arranged and it is 
hoped that the winning plan may be carried out, as an example. 
The Club has suppHed the Public Libraries of Winnetka and Lake 
Forest with daUy-renewed flowers arranged for effect. 
In Winnetka, an Elm Tree, marked by a bronze tablet on a boulder, 
was planted in grateful memory of the late William Gold Hibbard. 
A fund for the City Gardens Association was raised as a memorial to 
our well-loved former President, Mrs. Frederick Greeley, 
We co-operated with the Horticultural Society in giving three well 
attended Flower Shows in Lake Forest. The admission tickets entitled 
their holders to visit several neighboring gardens. With the sub- 
stantial sum obtained, the Horticultural Society will start a small 
Arboretum in Lake Forest West Park and will plant there fourteen 
Memorial Trees dedicated to the Lake Forest Soldiers who fell on the 
Field of Honor. 
Florence Martin, President, ig20. 
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