year by year its types be improved, and its beauty appreciated. 
Your membership encourages and stimulates all this, and in turn the 
Society becomes more efficient and helpful to you and your friends. 
We hope that Garden Clubs will also help these societies. In some 
cases they may become affiliated. In other cases they can co-operate 
with them in their shows. There are many ways of doing this, and we 
will in future issues treat on this subject in each society for the benefit 
of all Bulletin subscribers. 
Henrietta M. Stout. 
Notes 
You ask for suggestions concerning the use of Christmas trees. 
In my family we go to the nursery where Evergreen trees are grown, 
select one, perhaps three or four feet high, have a box or tub filled with 
earth, which is easily concealed by moss or green paper. After a few 
days in the house the children tire of it and we plant it out on the 
grounds. We have never lost one and each child lays claim to one or 
more. Sometimes if the weather is fine at Christmas, they go into the 
yard and decorate the tree with popcorn, paper flowers, bright berries. 
By so doing, nothing is lost and a fine tree gained. 
Mrs. E. E. Fayerweather, Amateur Gardener. 
Thomas F. Hunt, dean of the College of Agriculture of the Univer- 
sity of California, who is on sabbatical leave in Europe, has accepted 
appointment as permanent delegate representing the United States at 
the International Institute of Agriculture, Rome, Italy. Dean Hunt 
has long been interested in the problems of the institute. He was one 
of the delegates of this Government at the last meeting of the general 
assembly and spent much time then traveling over Europe and study- 
ing agricultural conditions. He went to Europe in September, 1 918, as 
a member of the commission sent by the United States Department of 
Agriculture to make a study of agricultural conditions in the allied 
countries. His wide knowledge of agricultural conditions in America, 
coupled with his extensive investigations in Europe, make him an ex- 
ceptionally well-qualified man to represent the United States at the 
International Institute. 
Nov. II, 1920. 
I have been very much gratified at the response the list of plant 
names in your Bulletin has brought. From the number that came 
in promptly I was in hopes that even a larger number were going to fill 
in the blank than have actually done so. 
I have seventeen replies, part of them representing the combined 
work of a whole Club, or of quite a number of members of it. 
Very truly yours, 
F. L. MuLFORD, Horticulturist. 
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