Mrs. Martin said that she desired to bring to the members, and espec- SesQUI- 
ially to the Presidents, the suggestion, to be thought over and acted upon p_ 
at the Annual Meeting the following day, of participating in the Sesqui- ^ 
centennial' Exhibition to be held in Philadelphia in 1926 or 1927, on the -EXHIBITION 
scale of the largest exhibition that has ever been given in the world. She 
said: "Those of you Avho went to the San Francisco Exhibition will, I 
think, agree with me that the garden subject was badly done. My sugges- 
tion is that The Garden Club of America take the initiative in this matter ; 
that they send a telegram at once to the President of the Sesqui-centennial 
and start the movement to have a garden carried out all through the 
summer. The Netherlands are likely to send 5,000,000 bulbs. Would it 
not be well for The Garden Club op America to be the leaders in this 
whole movement instead of letting it get into purely commercial hands. 
In other words, have The Garden Club of America start it, ask the 
Peony Societies for their plants, the Iris Societies for their plants, and so 
on through all the plant Societies. There will be thousands of people who 
never see a Horticultural exhibit. Here we would have something real grow- 
ing all the time. The feeling was universal that this plan be carried through. 
Mrs. Sloan spoke of the feeling on the part of some of the men who 
are members of The Garden Club of America that they are not sufficiently 
encouraged to attend the meetings, and said that the Clubs having men 
in their membership should urge them to come. 
Mrs. Mercer said she would be glad to. have The Garden Club of Policy 
America decide definitely about its future policy. She feels that the 
time has come to decide in some way what is to be done in the future, from i. TH 
the point of view of admissions and from the point of view of federation. trARDEN CLUB 
The President elaborated on this thought and said she hoped the members OP AMERICA 
would give it consideration. 
Attention of the members was called to Questionnaires on ' ' What QUESTION-- 
constitutes eligibility to a Garden Club, " referred to under "Notes" on „, 
page 315 of the May issue of the Bulletin. These were distributed by JSAIRES 
Mrs. Hill to each President or Alternate. 
Answering an inquiry about the work of the Roadside Committee, Mrs. n , RF 
Adee said she had been on the committee which investigated conditions -p" 
relating to the littering of roads and public places on holidays, and that it -"'OADS AND 
was discovered that the Highway Law gave authority to the State Con- CONSERVA- 
stabulary to make arrests of offenders, but that when the State Constab- TION 
ulary were approached they were not willing to co-operate. Mrs. Sturtevant, 
of the Lake Forest Club, said their committee had faced the same problem 
and that the help of the Boy Scouts had been enlisted and they had cleared 
up the highways. Mrs. Adee suggested that fining by magistrates of 
offenders who litter the highways might be effective. Mrs. Riker said 
that a member of her Club had suggested that if a notice requesting 
care of the roads and highways were enclosed with each automobile 
license that might produce some results, and Mrs. Crosby stated that 
the Highway Commissioner of Massachusetts had agreed to send out 
such notices if her Club was willing to finance it. In Colorado the 
Secretary of State has agreed to distribute pamphlets to tourists. 
Mrs. Farwell said that the Department Stores had been asked to enclose 
with their monthly statements a notice having to do with Wild Flower 
Preservation and care of the roads, and some had promised to do this when 
despatching the June 1st statements. 
Mrs. Sloan spoke of the Bear Mountain Conference, and expressed 
great satisfaction with the results. This Conference touched on conserva- 
tion of all kinds, and The Garden Club of America was accorded very 
flattering recognition for the splendid work it has accomplished. 
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