flowers, flowering plants, seedlings, etc., according to the season, are 
donated by members of the Club. Last year the proceeds of these 
sales were given to our new town hospital. This year they are being 
given to our town Library for the purchase of books on Gardening, 
Farming, and kindred subjects. Books of this character are much in 
demand and expensive to buy, so we gladly encourage this interest. 
The plan of forming an association of the seven Garden Clubs of 
New Jersey we feel to be an admirable one. We have already had 
delightful meetings at Short Hills, where the exhibit of Dahlias was 
marvelous, and also charming meetings at Rumson and Morristown. 
We look forward to the help and stimulus which this opportunity of 
meeting together will give in the exchange of experiences and in the 
discussion of our common problems. We are, at present, planning a 
Memorial to our late President. 
In conclusion, our Club has held its regular fortnightly meetings 
during the Club year, and the majority of the papers have been 
written by the members. 
Harriette F. Armour, President. 
(Mrs. George Armour) 
Garden Club The Garden Club of Ridgefield, Connecticut, feels renewed interest 
OF in its work this summer, has increased its membership to eighty-five 
Ridgefield, active members, and has a larger average attendance than ever before. 
Connecticut Its Village Improvement Committee is planning needed work 
on the town's beautiful trees, and advocating the planting of new 
trees wherever necessary. A movement is also being started to provide 
a public park for Ridgefield, with seats, band-stand, etc. 
The School Gardens Committee has one hundred and twenty-six 
little gardens planted by the children and doing well, and will have a 
exhibition separate from that of the Garden Club, at which many prizes 
and ribbons will be awarded. 
The Club's public exhibition will take place on September loth 
and will include several new classes, among them being bouquets, old 
and new, and miniature gardens. Each member of the Club has 
pledged herself to make at least one exhibit. Three new prizes have 
been offered by members to gardeners showing best muskmelon, 
greatest number of ribbons for vegetables and for flowers. A silver 
cup has been given by one member to be owned by the exhibitor win- 
ning first prize for vegetables for three years. 
One member, Mrs. LeBoutiUier, reports raising a Peony from seed 
having the first blossom this Summer, plant to be named the Adeline 
Bleecker; it differentiates entirely from the original. One member has 
produced a very good squash from crossing Giant Summer Crookneck 
with Long Island White Melon. This was Mrs. Geo. B. Agnew. 
Mrs. George P. Ingersoll. 
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