{ the desire for more knowledge often arises from one summer's work 
j on the land. 
' Delia West Marble, 
Chairman of the Land Army Committee 
of the Bedford Garden Club. 
Globe Gar- Many of our Club members are just now greatly concerned with 
DENS "Globe Gardens." They are not a new idea of course, but each year 
they claim as much interest as though we were experimenting with 
them for the first time. 
The ideal receptacle for a Globe Garden is a small aquarium with 
a hinged Hd, but since these are difficult to find, an ordinary round 
fish globe may be used with a glass plate or sheet of glass for a cover. 
Very rich leaf mold is prepared and put into the globe. Then a cup 
of hot water is poured in to start the steaming process. The globe 
should be placed in the sun. In the leaf mold various things may be 
planted; mosses are always lovely, and a clump of moss in which some 
tiny plant is growing is ideal. In order that one may have variety, 
everything must be extraordinarily small. Hemlocks, two or three 
inches high, are very atrractive and can be found by searching the 
woods dihgently. There are several varieties of small ferns to be 
found which seem to be growing for the very purpose of being trans- 
plated into globes. Perhaps the most satisfactory things to use are 
Partridge-berries and Wintergreen, for their berries add a little color. 
The cover of the globe should be lifted for about half an hour once 
a week, and besides furthering the steaming process, a most wonderful 
breath of the woods is emitted. 
Con stitution On the heels of the Philipsto wn Flower Show came the joint meeting 
Island with the Millbrook and Bedford Clubs. We had, ten days before, enjoyed 
the hospitality of the Bedford Club, when we were their guests at a 
Field Day, in time to see their gardens in all the wealth of late season 
bloom; thus we wanted our Bedford and Millbrook friends to meet 
with us in the garden at Constitution Island of which the Philipstown 
Garden Club has assumed charge. 
Constitution Island — or to give it its older name, "Martilaer's 
Rock" — lies directly opposite West Point, and is separated from the 
east shore by a wide marshy tract. At the extreme point of the island 
are the ruins of a Revolutionary fort, from which a chain ran under 
the river to West Point, preventing the approach of British ships. 
Close to the south shore is the old house where lived Miss Susan and 
Miss Anna Warner, authors of the " Wide, Wide World." The island 
is now Government property, but through an arrangement with the 
Commandant at West Point, and the '' Martilaer's Rock Association," 
the Philipstown Club has taken charge of the garden, planting there 
the old-fashioned flowers and shrubs which the two Miss Warners 
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