during the past week was given over to the Transportation Committee, 
when fifty-six letters for that committee alone were sent out from the 
office. 
Each day develops some new phase of the actual functioning of 
the Garden Club of America. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Antoinette F. Rogers. 
The Secretary then read the following letter from Mrs. Crosby: Letter 
To the Officers and Members of the Garden Club of America, from 
Dear Friends: Mrs. 
I little thought when you were kind enough to choose me last ^^osby 
summer for your President that I was to give you so little service. I 
had looked forward intensely to the pleasure of working with and 
for you but, as you know, I have been detained in Europe by the 
illness of one of my family and, therefore, was obliged to send in my 
resignation. Under the able leadership of our First Vice-President 
the Club has grown in importance and is fast becoming a real factor 
in the country. It has a great scope of usefulness before it and I hope 
every Member Club and each member of a Member Club will be 
ready and willing to do his or her share toward its development by 
spreading horticultural knowledge and by using influence to encour- 
age progress in matters that may come within its province. Just how 
far this province is to extend is a subject for you yourselves to decide. 
In our zeal to co-operate with various good and appropriate causes 
let us not forget that the spread and encouragement of horticultural 
knowledge is our first aim and should take precedence over other 
interests, but let us be ready also to co-operate in all matters relating 
to this subject when we are entirely sure that the proper methods are 
being pursued in which we are asked to participate. 
Let me again thank all the Officers of this and last year for the 
great help that they gave me during my short period as President and 
that they may continue to help my successor is- the earnest wish of 
Your second President, 
H. R. Crosby. 
The President announced that the Chairman of the Finance Central 
Committee, Mrs. Henry R. Rea, had conferred with the Officers and Office 
Directors regarding the imperative need for an office where the 
rapidly increasing business of the organization may be transacted. 
The President stated that a most desirable space could be secured in 
the suite of the Horticultural Society of New York at 598 Madison 
Avenue, and that it is the intention of the Directors to accept this 
kind offer which will establish the headquarters of the Garden Club 
OF America in such pleasant and fitting surroundings. 
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