■ show on any considerable scale. Amateurs are urged to take up its 
cultivation, and they will find that being a member of the Society 
is indeed a wonderful stimulus. Members are urged to throw away 
(not give away!) the old bad magenta flowered sorts and get some 
of the fine new plants, many of which are not at all expensive. The 
Annual Show will be held in Boston presumably the second or third 
week in June and promises to be exceptionally fine as the famous 
Thurlow collection is so near by, as are other fine Peony gardens. 
Hundreds of wonderful varieties are exhibited at this time and the 
magnificent display is one long to be remembered. Many ribbons 
and medals are awarded. Several new prizes are announced for 
competition, — the Silver Medal of the Gaeden Club of America 
and the Sisson Memorial Prize of $100.00 being the most notable. 
The next Bulletin will probably contain the oflficial Hst of plants 
to be discarded and this will be most helpful to the amateur buyer. 
We are looking forward to raising the standard still higher and so 
eventually through the expressed opinion of our own members we 
hope to have an approved list of Peonies bearing as it were the ofl5cial 
stamp of the Society. E. M. Watson 
Notes 
At the mid- Winter meeting of the Directors of the Garden Club 
OF America the South Side Garden Club of Long Island was ad- 
mitted to membership; also the Garden Club of St. Louis. 
At the Spring meeting of the Directors, the following Members- 
at-Large were admitted: 
Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, Milford, Pennsylvania. 
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Walcott, New York, and Norfolk, Conn. 
Mrs. Henry H. Fay, 418 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass., and Woods 
Hole, Mass. 
Mrs. Sheffield Phelps, Aiken, South Carolina. 
Mrs. Charles A. Piatt, 135 East 66th Street, New York City, and 
Windsor, Vermont. 
Princess Rospigliosi, Smithtown Branch, Long Island, N. Y. 
The book which Mrs Oakleigh Thorne and her Committee have 
compiled and called, "List of Gardens of the Member Clubs of the 
Garden Club of America," has been received, and will prove of 
great value to Member Clubs who may avail themselves of its 
careful direction of what gardens may be visited. At the 
foot of the title page appears the note, "This list is personal and non- 
transferrable, " — a suggestion which will, of course, be carried out. 
At the end of the book is a list of Public Botanical Gardens. 
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