neat, modest and unassuming that I think you may not realize 
what days of work it represents, multiply it by six and it be- 
comes weeks. 
The Bulletin is mailed on the 15th of the months of May, 
July, September, November, January and March. This year I 
hope we can print our Annual Reports of Member Clubs in the 
January issue, and in regard to these reports Mrs. Pratt has 
made a very good suggestion of which details will be sent in the 
early autumn to all Club Presidents. 
Commencing with the September number the Bulletin will 
contain an index of the principal articles and September will 
also include a "surprise" for you which I think you will find 
most interesting and enlightening as showing what the Garden 
Club op America stands for at the present time and how wonder- 
fully it has grown since its inception. 
The New York office and the Sewiekley office are each the 
proud possessors of a complete file of the Bulletin since its 
beginning. There may be some who have not thought it worth 
while to keep this precious magazine, but if they could see the 
charming little books which have been bound for the New York 
office, I think many would begin right away to hoard. The 
complete file makes four such books and I am quite serious in 
saying that they are extremely valuable — and make fascinating 
reading. 
The Executive Board has presented the editorial office with 
the new five volume edition of Bailey's Encyclopedia of Horti- 
culture, and future editors will feel grateful as I do for this 
help. 
I do not wish to be personal and read out names of the 
Member Clubs who have not responded to our request for 
contributions, but I would like to remind you that one of the 
Bulletin departments called News and Views is entirely 
dependent on subject matter received from you as Members. It 
was planned for this purpose and if we do not have correspond- 
ence and contributions from the various Clubs, this department 
of necessity resolves itself into a duplication of the others. Each 
Garden Club is supposed to have a Bulletin "Correspondent." 
"Would it not be possible for this correspondent to be a little 
more active in the future so that each Club will be represented 
— even if it is only with a few lines — in at least one of the six 
issues which comprise our Bulletin year? Of course I realize 
that sometimes material has been sent in which we have not used ; 
this is due to lack of space, or it may be a duplication of some- 
thing recently published. As the Bulletin is altogether yours, 
we earnestly try to print all the Garden Club news sent in; we 
want everybody to be interested so that in the future we may 
make that "horrible lot of money" which was suggested to me 
for the Garden Club op America. 
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