at their meeting in October 1920 agreed upon this subject as 
legislated. 
The Garden Club of Evanston, Illinois, and the Garden Club of Admission 
Richmond, Mass., were presented as candidates for membership, of Member 
These Clubs having been properly proposed, seconded, and endorsed. Clubs 
were admitted to membership in the Garden Club of America by 
the following vote of the Directors: 
Voted: That the Garden Club of Evanston be admitted as a Member 
Club of the Garden Club of America. 
Voted : That the Garden Club of Richmond be admitted as a Member 
Club of the Garden Club of America. 
The availabihty of candidate clubs for membership in the Garden Committee 
Club of America was discussed and upon motion of Miss Wetmore, on 
President of the Garden Association in Newport, seconded by Mrs. Admissions 
Taft, President of the Garden Club of Cincinnati, the Directors 
Voted: That there be a Committee on Admissions to be appointed 
by the President to investigate all applications of clubs for 
membership in the Garden Club of America. 
Mrs. Martin, Chairman of the Legislative Committee, urged that 
the objects of the organization, as printed in the Bulletin, be care- 
fully observed in the consideration of each application for membership. 
Upon request the following extract was read: 
"The objects of this association shall be: to stimulate 
the knowledge and love of gardening among amateurs; 
to share the advantages of association, through con- 
ference and correspondence in this country and abroad; 
and to aid in the protection of native plants and 
birds; and to encourage civic planting." 
In further discussion of the policy it was the opinion of the meeting 
that a distinction should be made between farm and garden, and horti- 
cultural and civic lines; that civic planting should be encouraged, 
but that purely civic garden organizations and village improvement 
societies are ineligible for membership. Miss Rose Standish Nichols, 
Chairman of the Trade Relations Committee, requested permission 
to speak on this subject, interpreting her idea of the policy of the 
Garden Club of America as follows: 
That the object of the Garden Club of America is to 
consider gardening as a fine art. 
This expression was most heartily endorsed by the entire meeting. 
The Secretary spoke of the difl&culty experienced in keeping the Mailing 
addresses of members up to date, and urged that all corrections and List 
additions be sent promptly to the secretarial oflSce. It was announced 
that a charge of six cents will be made for each change of address in 
order to meet the cost of new addressograph plates. 
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Objects 
OF THE 
Garden 
Club of 
America 
