James River 
Garden Club, 
Virginia 
(Organized bv 
Mrs. M. C. Pat- 
terson, March i, 
IQ15, through the 
inspiration of 
Mrs. Frances 
King.) 
10. 
II. 
Aside from the great benefit and pleasure in coming together 
fifteen times each year, the outstanding features of our Club work for 
the past year are as follows : 
1. Plant exchange and sale. 
2. Arbor Day Celebration, members planting 24 Dogwood trees. 
3. Two cut-flower exhibitions, (a) Spring Daffodils, (b) Iris from 
members' gardens. 
4. Contest for best plan for city garden. Prize 100 Gladioli bulbs. 
Plans discussed at Club meeting, and judged by Chas F. 
Gillette, Landscape Architect. 
5. Two vegetable and fruit exhibits from members' gardens. 
6. Informal talks by professionals on, Vegetable Gardens; 
Aquatic Gardens; Architecture in the Garden; Window Boxes. 
7. Conducting booth (miniatiu-e vegetable garden) in Pure Food 
Exhibit. 
8. Assisted in Victory Loan Drive. 
9. Two original papers by members, Spring Bulbs, by Mrs. 
William Northrop, and Japanese Gardens, by Mrs. John 
Skelton WiUiams. 
Prizes offered: $10 — Public School Garden; $25 — Scholarship 
Woman's Land Army Training Camp, 
Various members of the Club conducted a Curb Market twice 
each week during the season, selling flowers and produce from 
members' gardens in the city market. This proved to be the 
Club's most strenuous undertaking. However, we were able 
thereby to send $130 to devastated gardens in France and $100 
to Serbia. A certain thrill comes to us all when we reflect that 
in the city of Nisch, in far away Serbia, there is a small garden 
tended by little children, and known as the "James River 
Garden, " the gift of our Club. 
November i, 1920. Since the writing of the above report, the Club 
has established 25 Junior Flower Clubs among the little girls of three of 
the local public schools, and distributed more than 500 packages of 
flower seeds and about 2,000 plants. Fifteen dollars in prizes has been 
offered to these Junior Clubs. In April the Club held a plant sale, 
from which it realized $100. In May invitations were issued to the eight 
Garden Clubs of the State to meet in Richmond. A State Federation 
of Garden Clubs was formed which will meet once a year in different 
parts of the State. In June four members of the Club planted a garden 
border of over i ,000 plants at the Dooley Hospital for Crippled Chil- 
dren in Richmond. This was done in the name of and by contributions 
from the Club. On October 20th a public sale of shrubs and bulbs 
from the gardens of members was held, from which we realized $100. 
Mrs. Thomas S. Wheelwright, 
President, James River Garden Club, Richmond, Va. 
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