To this end plans should be made now to allow for planting 
sufficiently in advance to insure the results we would wish, and 
I bring this suggestion to you with the hope that some one will 
present a resolution that we bring before the people of the 
United States and the entire world, the knowledge of what the 
American garden means in all its beauty. If the Garden Club 
of America stands for beauty, we should have during that 
Exhibition for six months continuous blooms, starting with 
spring flowering bulbs and finishing with Chrysanthemums. I 
hope a resolution to that effect will be offered." 
Mrs. Francis King offered the following resolution : 
"Understanding that the Sesqui-Centennial exhibition is to 
be one of beauty and progress, be it resolved at its Annual Meet- 
ing that the Garden Club of America offer its services to the 
Directors in bringing together the various Horticultural 
Societies, Special Societies, Landscape Association and others in 
planning and helping to maintain a garden in the Exhibit which 
will demonstrate to the public the fine art of gardening. ' ' 
Mrs. "William H. Mercur, of the Allegheny County Garden 
Club, made a brief address of welcome to the members of The 
Garden Club of America at the forthcoming meeting in Pitts- 
burgh, assuring a "Pennsylvania welcome, which we think is a 
very choice brand." 
Mrs. William C. Spruance, Chairman of the Committee on 
Nominations, presented the following ticket to the voting body 
of The Garden Club of America. 
President 
Mrs. Samuel Sloan 
Philipstown Garden Club, N. Y. 
First Vice-President Fourth Vice-President 
Mrs. John A. Stewart, Jr. Mrs. Francis B. Crowninshield 
Short Hills Garden Club, N. J. North Shore Garden Club, Mass. 
Second Vice-President Secretary 
Mrs. Fairfax Harrison Mrs. Harold Irving Pratt 
Fauquier and Loudoun County North Country Garden Club, L. I. 
Garden Club, Va. Treasurer 
Third Vice-President Mrs. William Eand 
Mrs. Samuel H. Taft Eye Garden Club, N. Y. 
Garden Club of Cincinnati 
Memoers of the Board of Directors to serve until the 
Annual Meeting of 1925: 
Mrs. J. Willis Martin Mrs. S. Edson Gage 
Garden Club of Philadelphia, Pa. Garden Club of Litchfield, Conn. 
Mrs. AValter S. Brewster Mrs. Duncan K. Brent 
Lake Forest Garden Club, 111. Hardy Garden Club of Buxton, 
Maryland. 
Mrs. Willtam E. Mercer 
Garden Club of Philadelphia, Pa. 
Alice Lea Spruance, Chairman. 
Garden Club of Wilmington. 
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