Garden Club of America as an aid in the collection of information 
and criticism. 
3. The collection of data on color physics and its relation to 
Color Charts. 
4. The preparation of a further program for the Garden Club of 
America as a result of all data collected. 
1. Work as been continued on the collection of information 
by members of the Committee. 
2. To popularize the Chart the Chairman wrote short 
articles on the subject which appear in the Bulletins of the 
Garden Club of America in the numbers of March and 
May, 192 1, and in the May number of the Garden Magazine. 
3. The Chairman is proceeding in the collection of the 
data on the physics of color. After a few experiments he has 
decided to take up Einstein's Theory on Relativity as a simple 
approach to a really compHcated subject, namely, the rela- 
tivity of Hght rays which the uninitiated suppose to be yellows, 
reds and blues. He is already pursuaded that intellectually 
speaking it is doubtful if there be such a thing as color but as 
Chairman of the Color Chart Committee he clings and will 
cHng to the evidence of his own senses. 
4. A carefully considered plan cannot be formulated as 
yet for the of&cial action of the Garden Club of America in 
connection with Color Charts. 
Dr. Ridgway agreed to sell his Color Chart to members of the 
Garden Club of America for $10.00, minus 15% and arrangements 
for its distribution by the Color Chart Committee were made on this 
score. Since then, it appears that Dr. Ridgway has sold the entire 
remaining edition of the chart to A. Hoen & Company, Baltimore, 
Md., the original printer. A. Hoen & Company has raised the retail 
price to $1 2.00 net. After protest they kindly agreed to furnish copies 
for $10.00 if bought through the Color Chart Committee. 
The Color Chart Committee had a Uttle scheme for reserving 50c 
of the sales price to cover postage and the cost of handling and also 
the printing of little cards for the place, the name of the flower, color, 
date, location, and the person by whom observations were made. It 
was then proposed to send such cards around to the different Clubs 
hoping they would be filled out in a way that would add materially to 
the important data on this subject. The new arrangement leaves the 
Committee without any scheme for collecting enough funds to print 
these little cards. Consequently, it asks that when the other printing 
is done for the Garden Club of America that the preparation of 
such cards be included in the order, or that funds be furnished to 
enable the Committee to publish its own data cards. 
If the Directors desire it might be possible to charge the printing 
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