The Garden The Garden Club of Wilmington, Delaware, organized during the 
Club of war, confined its activities primarily to co-operating with the City 
Wilmington, War Gardens and the following year to reconstruction work, turned 
Delaware this year with zest to the delights of its individual gardens and to 
making a contribution to civic improvement by the planting of a 
triangle at the intersection of three important streets in the centre of 
the city. 
Besides the pleasure of a closer acquaintance with each other's 
gardens, real benefit has followed interesting lectures at winter meet- 
ings. It was pleasant to see more and lovelier Water Lilies blooming as 
a tribute to Mrs. Fowler's illustrated lecture, more shapely fruit trees, 
thanks to Miss Exley's talk on pruning, etc. 
Visits were made to see comprehnesive collections of Tulips, Iris, 
Peonies, Lilacs and DahHas. That no one can see the perfection to 
which intelligence and care has brought these lovely flowers without 
being inspired to go and do likewise, is proof of the value of these 
pilgrimages. 
If hope springs eternal anyhwere it's surely in the garden's breast, 
and for the following year we anticipate even greater effort and cor- 
responding results. 
Ethel H. du Pont, President. 
(Mrs. W. K. du Pont.) 
Departments 
Garden What a Fall it has been for planting! Lucky is the woman who 
Miscellany decided to make, or remake, her garden this Fall instead of waiting 
until Spring. Plants which were set out October ist have had time 
to make a superb root growth. Indeed, the weather has been so balmy 
that some plants have become befuddled thinking it was Spring, for I 
find flowers on the Japanese Quince, Apples, Crabs and Forsythia. 
And what a season for those latest flowers that one hesitates to 
plant because they are nearly always ruined by early frost — the 
Japanese Anemones, Chrysanthemums, Climax Aster, and Cosmos! 
The Autumn has brought many important Flower Shows. I have 
never seen a professional show as charmingly arranged, -nor in as 
artistic surroundings, as that just given in Morristown by the Gar- 
dener's Association of the County. The nearby Garden Clubs worked 
with the professionals on the Committee of Decorations, and it was 
a very happy blending of excellent taste and professional perfection. 
They were most fortunate in using an old building, whose dull stone 
interior walls and old brick trim made a perfect background for the 
Autumn leaves and tall Cedars, with which the space was trimmed. 
Wide, tall windows let in quantities of light. The display benches 
were entirely covered with leaves and greenery, and the blessed 
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