Achievement Medal was awarded for the year 1920 to Mrs. WilUam 
H. Gary of the New Canaan Garden Glub. Mrs. Gary's creation of a 
remarkable Herbarium (mounted specimens of the weeds and wild 
flowers native to the region of New Ganaan, Gonnecticut) and her 
generous use of this for the Garden Glub of America and for 
her own community are the facts on which the award was based. 
We congratulate Mrs. Gary and the Garden Glub of New Ganaan, 
and hope that this first bestowing of the Medal, given in memory of a 
singularly devoted and intelligent amateur of gardening, may stimu- 
late the Presidents of our Glubs to inquiry as to the qualifications of 
their own members for such an honour as this. 
Louisa Yeomans King, Chairman 
Mrs. Samuel Sloan, Mrs. John A. Stewart, Jr., 
Mrs. S. E. Gage, Secretary, ' Mrs. Thomas McDougall. 
The Medal was then presented to Mrs. Gary by the President. 
Mr. Frederick Newbold, of the Horticultural Society of New York, Awards 
in thanking the Member Glubs for exhibiting at the International oe the 
Flower Show, stated that such exhibits, aside from their aid to the Horti- 
Society, were of great assistance to horticulture in general. The silver cultural 
cups awarded for the best Bird Bath and Planting and for the Best Society 
Basket or Vase of Gut Flowers were then presented to the Garden of 
Glub of Somerset Hills and to the Greenwich Garden Glub respectively. New York 
Announcement was made that due to an error the medals awarded 
for Bird-Bath entries by the Short Hills and Phihpstown Glubs and 
those won by the Garden Glubs of Easthampton and Allegheny 
Gounty for exhibits in the Flower Arrangement class had not been 
dehvered for presentation. 
Mr. Newbold announced that Mr. Scheepers and the Bulb Growers 
Association of Holland would distribute collections of bulbs to the mem- 
bers of the Garden Glub of America on condition that they be 
grown for exhibition at the International Flower Show of 1922. 
The gold medal offered by Mr. Max Schhng for the finest exhibit 
in the two classes open to the Garden Glub of America at the 
International Flower Show of 1921 and awarded to the Short Hills 
Garden Glub for its Bird Bath and Planting was then presented. 
Mrs. Francis Rogers, as representative of the "Lest We Forget "Lest 
Gommittee" spoke briefly on the present needs of our disabled sol- We 
diers, urging material aid and suggesting that they be employed in Forget" 
the gardens of members. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Dykes, Secretary of the Honourary 
Royal Horticultural Society, acknowledging the Resolutions of Member- 
Alflliation passed by the Directors at their January meeting. Upon ship of 
motion of Mrs. John A. Stewart, Jr., of the Short Hills Garden Glub, Mr. Dykes 
duly seconded, it was unanimously 
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