unfortunately, just as everyone was beginning to warm to the 
subject, the allotted time was over. 
Dr. Marlatt who has charge of what is known as Quarantine 
37 came next on the program and showed us slides of many 
and various pests which his committee is trying so valiantly to 
combat. No one doubts the wisdom of a quarantine, but one 
remained unconvinced that it should be necessary to keep out 
certain bulbs under the quarantine and to allow others, shown 
by Dr. Marlatt 's pictures to be pest-infested bulbs, free and easy 
entrance. This is only one of the inconsistencies which occurred 
to us. It was a pity that the hour was so late, as Dr. Marlatt 
kindly offered to answer any questions which we put to him, 
some of which might have been difficult to answer satisfactorily. 
We hope at some later date that there will be an opportunity 
for this discussion. 
Next morning at ten o'clock the procession moved toward 
Gunston Hall by way of the Arlington Experiment Farm. It 
was hard to go so fast through Eose Test gardens, Vegetable 
Trial grounds, Grass gardens, Chrysanthemum collections, etc. 
Future visits to AVashington will probably be popular with the 
enlightened members of the Garden Club of America. 
Gunston Hall is described in detail in this Bulletin, but one 
must pay a special tribute to the hospitality of its owners, Mr. 
and Mrs. Louis Hertle, who made it possible for us to spend 
several delightful hours in this house and garden so full of 
tradition. In the receiving line with Mrs. Hertle and Mrs. Sloan 
were Lady Geddes, Mrs. Charles Hughes, Mrs. Henry "Wallace, 
Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, Mrs. Gary Grayson and Mrs. Fairfax 
Harrison. On a terrace overlooking the Potomac river were 
arranged "forms" from the little schoolhouse nearby, and here 
we sat to open our box lunches, hot coffee and hot doughnuts 
being added to our menu by our kind hostess. The chairman of 
the Roadside Committee of the Garden Club of America paid 
us the following compliment, of which we should be very proud. 
"Mrs. Hertle 's guests may be complimented on the admirable 
tidiness with which they stacked their lunch boxes in neat piles 
with no escaping papers, in the gardens of Gunston Hall!" 
We went to Mount Vernon for the afternoon, feeling keenly 
the thrill of pride in this beautiful and historic spot. Such a 
glorious, golden autumn afternoon, with air so clear and soft. 
One marvelled that in spite of the crowds, — for an excursion boat 
was tied to the wharf, — there was as ever, the atmosphere of 
brooding peace which is so a part of Mount Vernon. We were 
met by several of the Regents of the Mount Vernon Society, and 
the Garden Club of America, through Mrs. Sloan, laid a beau- 
tiful wreath of autumn leaves and scarlet berries on Washing- 
ton's tomb. And just beyond, on high ground, we planted a 
tree. It seemed appropriate to stop in Alexandria on the way 
