by five Clubs: Garden Clubs of Morristown, Somerset Hills, Prince- 
ton, Short Hills, and Summit. 
On the same day, June 15th, the Flower Show of the Bedford, 
Greenwich, New Canaan, Ridgefield, and Rye Garden Clubs will be 
held at Reid Memorial House, Purchase, N. Y. 
Tuesday, June 28th, is the date fixed for the Fifth Annual Show 
of the Easthampton Garden Club at the Library grounds in 
Easthampton. 
And in September the Short Hills Garden Club will hold its Annual 
Dahlia Show which has come to be known all over the country. 
All these Club Shows are splendid and the Committee on Awards 
wishes to urge all Garden Club of America members, who are in 
their vicinity, to attend them without fail. 
The Horticultural Medal in bronze is available for a sweepstakes 
prize in all of your Club Shows. As Chairman I only ask that you let 
me know in plenty of time and forward to me the S5.50 which pays 
for the actual casting of our bronze replica. 
Mrs. Charles H. Stout, Chairman 
Mrs. Robert C. Hill, 
Mrs. Louis Laflin, 
At the conclusion of the report, the President made known to the 
members that the medal for award at Flower Shows, Plant Society 
Shows, and exhibits among the Member Clubs had been designed by 
Mrs. Stout. 
Historic In making a report of the Historic Gardens Committee the Chair- 
Gardens man. Miss Delia W. Marble, announced that the policy of the Com- 
Committee mittee is to secure plans of historic gardens. The James River 
Garden Club has done pioneer work in the collection of data of fifty 
wonderful historic gardens in Virginia which will be printed this 
autumn in book form, in which it is hoped there will be colored illus- 
trations. Mrs. Smith, of the Green Spring Valley Garden Club, is 
compiling a list of ten or twelve gardens which can be visited by 
members touring through the South, and in the event that any 
members wish to take the itinerary originally planned for the Autumn 
Meeting maps may be secured from the Highway Committee. 
The Amateur Gardeners also have been doing research work along 
the line of the Committee activity, and notes of historic gardens in 
Delaware have been made by Mrs. Miller and have been arranged in 
pamphlet form. 
Much interesting information about historic gardens is developing 
in all parts of the country. The Committee has asked for one corre- 
sponding member from each of the Member Clubs and in addition 
would request all members to send notes of historic gardens of which 
there may be few records and which may be unknown to the Commit- 
tee. 
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