On October 27th Mrs. Sloan wont to Vassar College at the 
request of Miss Roberts of the Botanical Department, who is a 
member of the Orange and Duchess Garden Club, to tell the 
students of the aims and activities of the Garden Club of 
America. 
She was greeted with great enthusiasm, and intense interest 
was felt among the students. 
Miss Roberts and Professor Downer, under whose able 
leadership the Vassar girls are studying practical gardening, 
are most sympathetic with the Garden Club of America, and 
we feel sure that many of these girls will become, in later years, 
most valuable members of individual Clubs. 
The Kingore Galleries, in New York City, on December 13th, Mr. 
looked like a semi-annual meeting of the Garden Club of Gals 
America. Mr. Galsworthy and his flower paintings are very 
popular with our members. This year he has forty-two paint- 
ings of gardens and as many studies of individual flowers. 
Some of the best of the out-of-door sketches were two of 
Hever Castle (owned by the Astors), and two of Mr. Gals- 
worthy's own garden. Especially lovely was "My Cottage in 
Spring," a wealth of white Plum trees blooming above Daffodils 
and other spring buibs with an adorable little English house in 
the background. 
But it is in his Flower Portraits that he excels. In these he 
is brilliant, accurate and convincing. His eye studies of peren- 
nials, Phloxes, Magnolia Sonlangeana, and Hybrid Delphinium 
are probably his three linest works. His vases of Mixed Flowers 
are daring and true. His smaller sketches "A Bench of Wild 
Primroses" or his "Wallflowers in a Blue Mug," were especially 
liked. One of the loveliest things in the exhibition was "Papaver 
pilosum and Violet Cranesbill" {Geranium platyphylhim) . No 
one but a true flower lover and one with real knowledge of 
plant construction, could have caught the illusively lovely charm 
of those lightly poised flowers. His tones of apricot, orange 
and violet were entrancing and the drawing of the intricate 
slender stems and frail foliage was most satisfying. 
After a few moments chat with him about his work you 
realize that he is a good gardener, at his leisure working among 
his flowers as we do ourselves, watching them grow and seizing 
their choicest moods for his sketches. The Garden Club of 
America is proud to count Mr. Galsworthy as one of its best 
friends. 
WORTHY S 
Exhibition 
of Water 
Colors 
(Mrs. Kobert Bacon has bought Mr. Galsworthy 's most admired 
painting of "Magnolia Sordangeana" ard has offered it as the prize for 
the "Miniature Garden Contest" for Club Members only in the Inter- 
national .Flower Show in New York in the spring). 
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