Mrs. Oakleigh Thorne, Chairman of the Visiting Gardens 
Committee, presented the following report : 
Visiting This Committee begs to report that 3,364 copies of the second 
Gardens list of Gardens was sent to the President for distribution on the 
Committee fourth of April, 1922. Again we express our thanks to the 
Garden Owners and the Presidents for their generosity, their 
interest and their collaboration, without which the list could 
never have come into existence. The list is now supposed to be 
in such condition as to preclude the necessity of a new issue at 
anytime within the near future. This does not mean, however, 
that Garden Owners are deprived of the ability to notify 
members of any necessary changes. To effect all changes it will 
only be necessary to notify the chairman of this committee and 
the desired changes will be made by means of pasters sent out 
through the next Bulletin. 
This committee suggests to the members the possibility of 
delightful garden tours during the summer as the Garden Clubs 
are easily located by means of the usual automobile touring 
maps and your list locates the gardens. 
The scope of our work has been enlarged this year through 
collaboration with the Foreign Relations Committee and an at- 
tempt to have foreign gardens listed for our membership has 
been met in a very friendly spirit. 
Color Chart 
Mr. Fletcher Steele, Chairman of the Color Chart Committee, 
exhibited a Color Chart, explaining its use. He said, in part : 
"The Color Chart Committee Report leaves me nothing to 
do but repeat what I have already said to you before and 
describe the actual use of the Color Chart. Mrs. Francis King- 
conceived the idea a long time ago that in matching color a 
descriptive chart was necessary in order to insure accuracy. 
The reason is that we probably do not all see the same color 
wnen we '-'see red," but there is a similarity of vision so that 
we can work up some standard. The only chart accessible to us 
today is the Ridgway Chart which 1 have recommended in the 
Bulletin and urged everybody to use." 
Mr. Steele then turned to the chart and pointed out the 
colors — red in the center, violet to the right and yellow to the 
left. He took a peony and placed it near the chart and match- 
ing its color with the chart explained that the color reflected 
was 'red toward purple," and that, in usins the color chart- 
book, one selects the color in the book nearest the flower to be 
matched, which is both named and numbered in the book. One 
can either follow the system there outlined or use an original 
system of names — for example, if desired, one could select a 
color and call it "President Sloan Pink" or "Secretary Pratt 
Purple." He took a poppy and indicated its color as from 
the red toward the orange. 
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