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The Bulletin Editors wish the subscribers the best of good 
luck for the year 1922, — for themselves and for their gardens, 
and success in planning and planting will be materially 
aided by what the Editor considers the feature of this 
Bulletin. — the Assistant Editor's accurate and comprehensive 
''Directory of Seedsmen and Nurserymen.'' She has done this 
immense and tiresome piece of work for us, so that when the 
spring catalogs come, in all their bewildering and brilliant array, 
we will already have an idea what and where we wish to order. 
She has covered our Garden Club world from Santa Barbara 
to the North Shore of Massachusetts. 
Please read the Directory carefully and if any omissions have 
been made report to us. 
There are to be several Flower Shows next March; one in 
Cleveland and one in New York, and also the early spring 
Flower Show in Boston. "Will the members of the Garden Club 
op America try to further the interest in Exhibitions by giving 
some thought to these to come? 
We are hoping that the Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and other 
Clubs in the Central Zone will feel the importance of co-operat- 
ing with the National Flower Show in Cleveland. As this 
Show is to be held in a different part of the United States each 
year, some of the Clubs farther west may have a similar 
opportunity in the future to extend this policy of the Garden 
Club op America. 
I believe Clubs would derive great pleasure from such 
association if each had an Exhibition Committee standing in 
readiness to help with their talents and taste not only in behalf 
of their own Club Shows, but also in arranging for entries in 
Exhibits of Plant or Horticultural Societies. They all want us ! 
In November when the representatives of the Member Clubs 
of the Garden Club of America met at the Autumn Exhibition 
of the Horticultural Society of New York, a feeling of friendly 
and joyous expectation was shared by us all. Every member 
of the Garden Club of America who was fortunate enough to 
see the beautiful exhibits from the Member Clubs and the eight 
groups of Chrysanthemums entered by individual members, felt 
well repaid whether she came from Boston or from so great a 
distance as Cincinnati. There is something exciting about a 
competition, and I am certain that everyone competing, whether 
for a thousand-dollar prize or for a ribbon, felt this thrill. 
As garden and flower lovers, should we not lend our interest 
to Flower Shows wherever possible? Perhaps you may not 
realize how keen the public is to learn what the Garden Clubs 
are doing, and what an influence in the Horticultural world we 
have become. 
Katherine C. Sloan. 
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