Annual Meeting 
The Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of America will be 
held at the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, on Wednesday, 
May nth, at half past ten o'clock. The Committee in charge of 
arrangements are planning a very interesting day. At the Botanical 
Garden, the members will have the privilege of seeing the tulip 
display consisting of ten thousand bulbs planted by Mr. Scheepers, 
and seventeen thousand for which the Dutch Bulb-Growers' Asso- 
ciation is responsible, with a total of about thirty thousand blooms 
at this time. This magnificent display of tulips will be supplemented 
by the famous Weeping Cherries in blossom, as well as many other 
rare shrubs of the season. Through the courtesy of the Rye Garden 
Club, Members will visit many beautiful spring gardens near Rye, 
opened that day for their pleasure. 
The Council of Presidents will be held the afternoon of May loth. 
Club members living in, or near. New York are hoping to entertain 
Presidents and Delegates coming from Clubs at a distance of more than 
one hundred miles. At the time the Bulletin goes to press, full plans 
for the meeting are incomplete, but details will be sent out later. 
Wild Flower Preservation Department 
Chairman: MRS. FRANCIS C. FARWELL, 
1520 Astor Street, Chicago, and Lake Forest, Illinois. 
Committee Members Miss Anna Head, Berkeley, California 
Mks. Harold Hack, Short Hills, N. J. Mks. Chas. L. Hutchinson, 3709 Prairie Ave- 
Mrs. W. K. Wallbridge, Short Hills, N. J. nue, Chicago, 111. 
Miss Delia Marble, Bedford, N. Y. Mr. Alain C. White, Litchfield, Conn. 
Mrs. W. R. Mercer, Doylestown, Pa. Mr. Walter B. Hoper, 31a Sycamore Street 
Mrs. George Sealy, Galveston, Texas Cincinnati, O. 
The Garden Clubs have been zoned and the name and address of each 
Wild Flower Chairman will be given when list is completed. 
Copy of letter from Mrs. G. H. Gardner of the Shaker 
Lakes Garden Club to Mrs. C. L. Hutchinson 
"Cleveland, Feb. i6, 1921. ' 
The Park Board has given us a place to start our Wild Flower 
Preserve, it is a spot we asked for and wonderfully adapted for this 
purpose, an old mill used when the Shakers lived in this part of the 
country, some of the walls still standing; a stream running through 
it, some rather open country and some places where the wild flowers 
that love the shade should grow. About three acres, I should think. 
It is a part of the city park system but rather disconnected from the 
rest. It seems like a tremendous undertaking but I suppose if we 
start and take a step at a time we may see our way. " 
I thought this might be of interest to the Bulletin. 
Yours truly, 
Frances K. Hutchinson 
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