can Peony and American Iris Societies. These were so greatly 
appreciated that the Societies in turn cooperated in many' ways 
with the shows of some of our Member Clubs. They have been 
most efficient in their activities, such as trial gardens, check 
lists and bringing about elimination of duplicates and poor 
varieties. They have stood for all for which the Garden Club 
of America stands. 
The Medal Awards Committee very wisely decided that it 
should not donate the medal to the same Society for two con- 
secutive seasons — with the exception of the American Dahlia 
Society, which had already been promised the medal this year. 
Two societies, however, the Gladiolus Society and the Chrysan- 
themum Society of America, which have lain dormant for some 
time, and with a change of officers have started into renewed 
activity, are to receive medals for their shows this year at 
Kalamazoo and St. Louis respectively. 
Your Committee feels that without the Special Plant Societies, - 
matters in the Horticultural world would be chaotic, so far as 
named varieties, etc. are concerned. In European countries these 
societies (of which there are many more,, such as Tulip, Daffodil, 
etc., and which cooperate with ours) are affiliated with the 
national horticultural societies of each country. Our Rose 
Society is already working with the. United States Department 
of Agriculture in the trial grounds at Arlington and the others 
at various State Experiment Stations ; but when at last our long 
needed American Horticultural Society becomes a fact, we may 
hope that the Garden Club of America and the Plant Societies 
may work side by side within its membership. 
In the absence of Mrs. Norman C. McPherson, Chairman of 
the Flower Show and Medal Award Committee, the report 
prepared by her was read by Mrs. Stout, as follows : 
tj! Your Flower Show Committee functioned for the first time 
o when the Garden Club of America cooperated with the Horti- 
cultural Society of New York at its annual Chrysanthemum 
Show at the Museum of Natural History, the first week in 
November. Nine Clubs competed in the Dinner Table Decora- 
tion Class. The number of Clubs exhibiting in the Hardy 
Chrysanthemum Contest was disappointing, two Clubs compet- 
ing in the "outdoor grown" and three in the "indoor." The 
prize winners of the Show are listed in the January Bulletin, 
pp. 179 and 180. 
At the ninth Annual International Flower Show in New 
York, in March, our schedule was much more elaborate and 
twenty-seven Member Clubs competed with a total of fifty-four 
entries. The two classes for Table Decorations were very 
popular, sixteen Clubs entering the Dinner Table Class and 
twenty-one the Luncheon Class. The Japanese Arrangements 
and Miniature Gardens were both innovations, but proved 
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