Mrs. The new edition of Mrs. Thome's Book of Gardens is ready 
Thorne 's for distribution among members of the Garden Club op 
Book America. Mrs. Thorne uses the same charming preface which 
adds the ever-welcome "personal touch," and we welcome the 
book as an old friend while finding the text even more compre- 
hensive and delightful than in the first edition. 
This book is a never-failing source of interest and pleasure, 
as well as a most useful guide-book of gardens, and we cannot 
be too grateful to Mrs. Thorne both for her inspiration and for 
her accomplishment. 
Flower The Garden Club of Philadelphia made a pilgrimage to the 
Show Flower Show on Tuesday, March fourteenth. Guides who had 
Luncheon gone over the Flower Show on Monday were supplied for the 
hostesses, so that they need not lose one instant of the precious 
time and might see everything of interest in the Show. By the 
courtesy of Miss Thompson the Board of Governors of the 
Garden Club of America were invited to the Colony Club foi» 
luncheon and more delightful garden talk would be hard to 
imagine. Enthusiasm and interest, exchange of seed lists and 
plant names and all the delights of our absorbing hobby were 
enjoyed by these thirty women during luncheon and in the 
afternoon at the Flower Show. 
The members of the Cathedral League of Maryland extend 
a most cordial invitation to the members of the Garden Club 
op America to attend the Fete of Lights and Flowers to be held 
upon the site of the future Maryland Cathedral in Baltimore, 
June the fourth to the eighth. 
This Fete of Lights and Flowers should be especially interest- 
ing to all garden lovers. A Cathedral is to be built in flowers 
in growing, blooming plants grouped so that they will outline 
the nave, aisles and the garth. The outer edge, or wall of the 
Cathedral, will be built of tall Cedar trees which will indicate 
the position of the future buttresses. At night, by a remarkable 
arrangement of electric lights, the flowers will be illuminated so 
that the blossoms will be transparent. 
The aisles of the Cathedral will be lighted by standards 
bearing transparent banners upon which the arms of the great 
Cathedrals will be illustrated ; these standards will indicate the 
position of the piers upon which the groined arches of the 
Cathedral will be built. Luncheon, tea and supper will be 
served on the grounds each day and there will be booths where 
fancy articles of all kinds will be sold. It will be a very splendid 
and rarely beautiful spectacle and it is hoped that members of 
the Garden Club op America will take advantage of the oppor- 
tunity to see a most unusual floral exhibition. 
Fete op 
Lights and 
Flowers 
Louise Este Bruce. 
Amateur Gardeners Club. 
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