required and the large demand will raise prices beyond the reach of 
many garden lovers. 
Your representative thinks that there is much to be said on both 
sides, but feels that a handling of the matter not entirely tactful in 
the past, and a hiraianly selfish clashing of interests, have both tended 
to make a Quarantine, undeniably intended for the general good of the 
country, a ruling which works unnecessary hardship upon many, and 
bestows an unfair protection upon others. 
The Executive Committee appeals for subscriptions to all who are 
interested in its efforts to secure such modifications of the Quarantine 
as will remove the hardships of the present ruling, without injuring 
its entirely proper aim — i. e., the protection of American horticulture 
and agriculture. The word protection is not here used in its commercial 
or political sense. 
Sarah Turnure, 
Representing the Garden Club of America on the Committee on 
Horticultural Quarantine. 
The Garden Club of America, No. i, hopes to make a suitable 
contribution in response to this appeal and asks its members for 
subscriptions to the fund it is raising. 
Cheques should be made payable to the Garden Club of America, 
No. I, and sent to Mrs. Percy Turnure, 30 East 60th Street, New York. 
Carpe Diem 
K this were my last day I'm almost sure 
I'd spend it working in my garden. I 
Would dig around my little plants and try 
To make them happy, so they would endure 
Long after me. Then I would hide secure 
Where my green arbor shades me from the sky. 
And watch how bird and bee and butterfly 
Came hovering to every flowery lure. 
Then, as I rested, 'haps a friend or two. 
Lovers of flowers, would come, and we would walk 
About my Httle garden paths, and talk 
Of peaceful times, when all the world seemed true. 
This may be my last day, for all I know: 
What a temptation just to spend it so ! 
Anchusa 
Reprinted from The Chicago Tribune 
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