"We have -not found any published work as comprehensive in 
scope as this venture of ours, which, we hope, may embrace the 
gardening achievements from coast to coast; and I think we 
shall find that this research will awaken a sense of responsibility 
for the preservation of the beauty and botanical usefulness of 
gardens, started so long ago by other thoughtful men and women 
who loved their country, but which, through neglect, are vanish- 
ing from memory. 
The material which we have received is surprisingly good. 
I wish I had time to quote for you some bits from the paper on 
"Prospect," in Princeton, which carries one through two 
centuries of diaries and records, from the buying of the land 
in 1686 to the manner and methods of setting out fruit and nut 
trees in 1780, and closes with an account of Mrs. Max Farrand 's 
work there in our own time. 
The delights of Sylvester Manor at Shelter Island make one 
long to walk through the box hedges enclosing memories of poets 
and politicians, ladies and lovers, of those almost forgotten years. 
The Cincinnati gardens are cleverly listed in a more concise 
form, with photographs inserted in the text. 
Maryland's contribution is in Baedeker style, giving an 
itinerary with roads, maps, hotels and a short history of each 
of the many places to be visited; and the Maryland State Road 
Commission offers to give one hundred maps to become the 
property of the Garden Club of America. This is useful for 
the traveler, but we hope the book will also give pleasure to the 
one who reads it at home. 
"Will you not collect the monographs of special gardens and 
send them to us? Many of the old places have been written up 
by their owners or by Historical Societies and we depend on the 
scattered members of our Club to help us collect all the informa- 
tion we can. 
There are many states not represented in the Garden Club 
op America and I am sure there are many among us familiar 
with these localities, who could give valuable information and 
suggestions. "We have already the promise of two members now 
living in the North, one from Georgia and one from Tennessee, 
who will help us gather information from their home states. 
Suggestions may be sent to me or directed to Miss Delia Marble, 
care of the Central Office, who will forward them to me. 
Mrs. Rickey, of Cleveland, has written an interesting account 
of the Shakers, who, with their village, have entirely disappeared. 
I spoke of the sense of responsibility for the preservation of 
the old places which might be awakened. "We shall see an 
example of this in Pittsburgh. "We have a paper on the Harmony 
Society, which was led from "Wurtemberg by one George Rapp, 
who, with one hundred families, came to this country in 1803 
and founded a village called Economy. There they adopted a 
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