America. The Chairman announced that at the meeting of the 
Presidents and Directors a decision had been made to assess each 
Member Club at the rate of fifty cents per capita (the method of 
raising such assessment to be decided by the individual Clubs), in order 
that the financing of the central ofi&ce may be assured for the ensuing 
fiscal year. 
Mrs. Robert C. Hill read the following report of the Committee Committee 
on Awards: _ on Awards 
In the May Bulletin, which was to have come out before this 
meeting, you will find a comprehensive, illustrated article on the 
three different medals awarded by the Garden Club of America for 
three types of achievement. This article is to clarify in our minds the 
purposes for which they are awarded. 
My report has only to do with the Horticultural Medal which we Horti- 
commonly call the Flower Show Medal because it is awarded only at cultural 
Flower Shows. The first impression of this medal was struck in gold Medal op 
and offered at the Eighth International Flower Show in New York in the Garden 
March last for the most meritorious exhibit in the Show. It was awarded Club op 
to Mr. Adolph Lewisohn of Ardsley-on-Hudson, whose gardener is America 
John Canning. This exhibit covered a space one hundred feet square, 
planted marvelously with every variety of choice" flowering plants in : 
soft pastel coloring. It was a triumph in gardening skill, patience, 
and perfection, only dreamt of in the Elysian Fields. 
At a meeting of your Committee on March 9th it was decided to 
offer this medal in silver to the following four Special Plant Societies 
at their Annual Shows for 192 1 : 
The American DahHa Society 
The American Iris Society 
The American Peony Society 
The American Rose Society. 
The medal for the last mentioned Society was awarded April 6th at 
the American Rose Society Show in Boston to Thomas Roland, of 
Nahant, as a sweepstake prize for the fifty finest blooms in the Show. 
The same medal in bronze is offered to Member Clubs for the 
finest exhibit in their Annual Shows. ' It may only be awarded to a 
Member Club. This bronze medal is our best beloved which all of us 
can hope to win some day. 
This medal is, by special request of Dr. W. Gilman Thompson, to 
be placed in the Museum of the American Numismatic Society in 
New York as an example of American medallic art. 
It is in line with this report to say that there are to be many 
Flower Shows among the Clubs this season; those whose dates have 
been set are: 
The North Jersey Flower Show on June 15th, which is gotten up 
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