Voted: That Mr. Dykes, Secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
be made an Honourary Member of the Garden Club of America. 
Spring The President announced that the Garden Club of America 
Meeting is keenly anticipating its Spring Meeting of 1922 to be held in Cleve- 
OF 1922 land at the invitation of the Member Clubs of that city. Mrs. 
Henry R. Rea, President of the Garden Club of Allegheny County, 
inquired if the meeting might not be planned so that two additional 
days could be spent in Pittsburgh at the invitation of her Club. This 
kind suggestion was referred to the Cleveland and Allegheny County 
Clubs to be discussed in detail. 
Resolution Upon motion of Mrs. Thorne, President of the Millbrook Garden 
OF Club, Inc., duly seconded, it was 
Apprecia- Resolved: That the Garden Club of America regrets the 
TION TO resignation of its Treasurer, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, and takes 
■jir this opportunity to express its thanks and its appreciation of Mrs. 
. ' Auchincloss' seven years of efficient and tactful service. 
Auchincloss it is requested that a copy of this resolution be spread upon the 
minutes. 
Mr. Mr. Fletcher Steele spoke briefly on the general subject of flowers, 
Steele's emphasizing especially the interest of the Garden Club of America 
Address not only in horticulture, but in the arrangement and adaptation of 
flowers to constitute the desired result, the perfect whole. In conclu- 
sion Mr. Steele applied the apt expression of Miss Rose Standish 
Nichols at the morning meeting: "That the object of the Garden 
Club of America is to develop gardening as a fine art. " 
Nominating The Chair having been taken by Mrs.Horatio Lloyd , of the Gardeners 
Committee of Montgomery and Delaware Counties, the report of the Nominating 
Committee was read by Mrs. Rollin Saltus, the Chairman, as follows: 
The Committee on Nominations of the Garden Club of 
America begs to present to you the following names to be voted on 
at the Annual Meeting on Tuesday, May 10, 192 1: 
President 
Mrs. Samuel Sloan 
First Vice-President Fourth Vice-President 
Mrs. John A. Stewart, Jr. Mrs. Francis B. Crowninshield 
Second Vice-President Secretary 
Mrs. Fairfax Harrison Mrs. Harold Irving Pratt 
Third Vice-President Treasurer 
Mrs. Samuel Taft Mrs. William Rand 
Members of the Board of Directors to Serve until the A nnual Meeting of 1924 
Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss Mrs. Stewart Paton 
Mrs. John Newell Mrs. Henry R. Rea 
Mrs. F. L. Rhodes 
Respectfully submitted, 
Margaret Day Blake, Garden Club of Illinois 
Hally Carrington Brent, Garden Club of Twenty 
Martha B. Hutcheson, Garden Club of Somerset Hills 
Josephine Perry Morgan, Garden Club of Princeton 
Evelyn Noyes Saltus (Chairman) , Bedford Garden Club 
As there were no nominations presented from the floor by any five 
Member Clubs, a vote was made by ballot and the candidates elected. 
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