Since the last Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of 
America, six numbers of the Bulletin have been issued, that is, 
from May, 1921 to May, 1922, about twenty-five thousand 
Bulletins have been sent out. The expense of printing and 
mailing the six issues, with secretarial service and postage in 
the Sewickley office has been $4,500.00 — and with the high prices 
which still prevail in the printing and paper world, we cannot 
see any way to make a cut in cost. The question therefore is, IS 
the Bulletin worth this expense to you ? 
A great many people feel that we make a great mistake in 
not advertising ourselves — (and please don't confuse this with 
taking advertisements for the Bulletin). And one individual 
said to me not long ago, "If you nine ladies would solicit out- 
side subscriptions for the Bulletin, you'd make a horrible lot 
of money." Personally I should like to have a "public" out- 
side the Garden Club lists. We could profitably care for five- 
hundred such non-member subscriptions, and as Mrs. Brewster 
once said, such subscribers need not be approached and "plead 
ingly solicited, "—but "judiciously and genteelly permitted to 
subscribe" — a subtle difference. You see, Members of Member 
Clubs do not pay subscriptions, their annual dues to the Garden 
Club of America entitles them to the Bulletin, — it is out- 
side subscriptions I am talking about. 
I wish I had time to tell you in detail the process of assemb- 
ling one Bulletin, from the time (months ahead of the publica- 
tion) when we begin writing for special articles, contributions 
on desired subjects, etc., on to their ultimate arrival. Then 
begins the verification of plant names — we often have to refer 
to Bailey thirty times in one article, and the counting of the 
number of words used. Also spelling sometimes .must be 
corrected and if a mistake slips through our fingers we have to 
answer a great many letters asking why we spelled Acacia 
with three C's instead of two — this takes time. The Bulletin 
contributions usually come in bunches and often they must be 
cut not only because they may infringe upon space allotted to 
something else, but because sometimes it is necessary to gain 
one, two or three lines in pasting the Dummy and something 
must be sacrificed. If there are any contributors in this audience 
who have felt grieved that their work was mutilated, do please 
remember how difficult it is to fit all this mass of material into 
the sixty-four pages of one issue and thus keep within our two- 
cent limit. After the verification and counting comes proof- 
reading and cutting and fitting and pasting the Dummy and 
then more proof-reading, and finally the page-proof must be 
gone over almost with a microscope and because I am not a real 
editor, my "business day" is any-one 's day; there are a million 
interruptions and the telephone rings incessantly. And when 
the finished Bulletin appears, it looks so little and simple, so 
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