Annual Meeting Number, 1921 
Bulletin of 
^be (3ar6en Club 
of Hmerica 
July, 1921 ffSSC?- ^ y ^-^^ ^m:^^ No. X (New Serief) 
Honorary President 
MRS. J. WILLIS MARTIN 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. 
President ist Vice-President 
MRS. SAMUEL SLOAN MRS. JOHN A. STEWART, Jh.. 
4S E. S3KD Street, Shokt Hills, New Jeksey. 
New YoBK, and Garrison, N. Y. j ,,• n -j < 
_ 3nd Vice-President 
iLfoc w???T?TVT T>4Mr» MRS. FAIRFAX HARRISON 
MRS. WILLIAM RAND Belvoir, Fauquier County, Va. 
1 18 E. 40TH Street, New York, AND 
Rye, New York. 3rd Vice-President 
Secretary MRS. SAMUEL H. TAFT 
MRS. HAROLD I. PRATT 3329 Morrison Avenue, 
S3 E. 68th Street, New York, and Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Glen Cove, L. I. ^,^ Vice-President 
Librarian MRS. FRANCIS B. CROWNINSHIELD 
MRS. FREDERICK L. RHODES 164 Marlboro Street, Boston and 
Short Hills, New Jersey. Marblehead ,Mass. 
Editor 
MRS. WALTER S. BREWSTER 
1 330 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, and 
Lake Forest, Illinois 
The objects of this association shall be: to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening _ among 
amateurs; to share the advantages of association, through conference and correspondence in this 
country and abroad; to aid in the protection of native plants and birds; and to encourage civic planting. 
To-day I make a song for rain . . . 
For rain is like a woof of gems, 
Is like a fringe of melting pearls 
Hung from the sky's gray hems. 
The soft rain falteringly sighs 
Benevolence upon the roofs 
That point up to my window square 
A score of cruel proofs . . . 
The town has been too sharp with sun 
For weeks I have not dared look out 
And learn too certainly how things 
Grow obdurate in drought. 
But now a wind leans from a cloud 
And blows pearl aprons on the pane 
To cloak realities and roofs . . . 
Oh, Blessedness of rain! 
George O'Neil. 
