"Oh! a statue of a boy! Guess that's to make it more life-like." 
"Looks as if he'd found the old swimmin' hole." "Pretty idea, — 
boy picking daffodils, " etc. 
Query: What's the use? H. M. S. 
From Greenwich, the Club winning the Silver Cup for Flower 
Arrangement, the Bulletin has received the following list of flowers 
used for the competition; 
Antirrhinum, Phelps' Giant, White and Yellow; 
Antirrhinum, Keystone, Salmon, and Orange King; 
Lupins, Mid-blue; 
Tulips, Rev. Ewhank and Couronne d'Or; 
Mimosa; 
Delphinium, Dark Blue; 
Verbena, Salmon-pink. 
The Orange King Antirrhinum and the Mid-blue Lupin were 
grown in a private greenhouse by an EngHsh gardener. The 
other flowers were bought. The arrangement was made by Mrs. 
MacRae and Mrs. Bennet. Mrs. Edgar Mead 
Correspondence 
The First Vice-President announces that letters have been re- 
ceived from three Special Plant Societies in acknowledgment of the 
offer of the Silver Medal of the Garden Club of America for their 
exhibitions. 
New York City, March 24, 1921. 
My dear Mrs. McKnight: 
I hope if it does not interfere with your rules that you will convey my most 
hearty thanks to the Garden Clubs exhibiting at the Flower Show, for I appreciate 
more than words can express the trouble and interest they all took in making 
the exhibit, and all our Committee very much appreciate your co-operation in the 
Show. 
Very sincerely yours, 
Frederic R. Newbold 
President of the Horticultural 
Society of New York 
Santa Barbara. 
My dear Mrs. McKnight: 
You see I have wandered too far afield to send you any word of the Garden 
Club of Cleveland; I am still, however, within the magic circle of the Garden 
Club of America, for only yesterday "Las Tejas" opened its hospitable gates 
to me. So I am sending you an item about this loveliest of gardens which Mrs. 
Oakleigh Thorne has made. She counts it as a beginning, and I had to be assured 
many times that this was only its third season, — rather discouraging to a middle- 
west gardener to find clipped cypress too high to look over, which three years 
ago were potted plants eighteen inches high. 
Of the original place nothing remains but the wonderful trees; one looks down 
from the entrance-drive to the garden which is all of Mrs. Thome's planning. 
She has used the live-oaks as a setting for her planting, and her garden should be 
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