The last and best thanks go to the Acting Editor, Mrs. McKnight, 
who since she is reading this report must be spared embarrassment. 
If you are as grateful to her as I am you will at this point burst into 
applause and give her a rising vote of thanks. As I said elsewhere 
she saved me from you and you from me for three long months and 
gave you better Bulletins than ever I have in six long years of service. 
The years have been ones of very pleasant intercourse and I 
regret that many circumstances make advisable my resignation as 
Editor. I cannot go into the reasons here but in saying good-bye I 
must thank you for bearing with me so kindly and so hopefully. What 
1 have offered you has been very little, but insignificant as it is, it has 
taken much time and hard work. The Club will be the better for a 
change of Editors and although it may seem for the moment that I am 
shirking, in a year's time you will thank me for giving the Bulletin 
a new lease of life. You have been generous in your praise and 
humorous in your censure. I am grateful for both and bid you fare- 
well as Editor only to hail you as fellow-member whose jobless state 
leaves time for leisurely friendliness and unhurried conversations on 
other themes than why your last Bulletin failed to reach you. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Kate L. Brewster. 
Cost of Publishing the Bulletin (including postage) 
July, 1920 $799.08 
September, 1920 611 . 12 
December, 1920 787 . 26 
January, 192 1 496.97 
March, 1921 643 . 70 
May, 1921 (estimated cost, bill not in) 700 . 00 
Total $4038 . 13* 
Number of paid subscribers 55 
Number of lapsed subscribers 21 
2 Paid subscribers have become Members-at-Large. 
I Paid subscriber has become a member of the G.a.rden Club of America. 
*This report does not include secretarial services or office postage and incidental expense. 
Mrs. Robert C. Hill, in behalf of the Board of Editors, stated that 
the Bulletin could not lose the abihty, service, and counsel of Mrs. 
Brewster, who has raised it to its present high standard, and upon 
motion duly made and seconded, the entire meeting rose and it was 
Voted: That the Secretary be asked to telegraph Mrs. 
Brewster at once indicating the attitude of the entire 
meeting regarding her resignation as Editor of the 
Bulletin. 
Mrs. Percy Turnure, the Chairman, read the report of the Com- Committee 
mittee on Horticultural Quarantine: on Horti- 
The last meeting of the Committee on Horticultural Quarantine cultur.al 
was held on April 21st at the of&ce of Mr. Henry W. De Forest, 30 Quar.axtine 
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