asking for replies by September and requesting that answers be 
from the Clubs, not from the individual Presidents. 
The Directors therefore decided that all proposals for membership 
should be held until the autumn, when definite rules of admission 
will have been estabhshed. 
It was recommended that there be a revision of Article V, Section 
III, of the By-Laws to ehminate the geographical limitation governing 
admission of Members-at-Large, as many desirable and valuable 
miembers are excluded by this clause. An additional Article to the 
By-Laws was also proposed to provide for initiation fees of Member 
Clubs and Members-at-Large. 
The Directors agreed that the eligibility of a Member-at-Large 
should be gauged by the horticultural achievement or special offering 
which would place the individual in this form of membership; and 
that the Committee on Admissions shall pass upon all candidates, 
whether Member Clubs or Members-at-Large, before recommenda- 
tion to the Board of Directors for action. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mrs. Bayard Henry, President Autumn 
of the Garden Club of Philadelphia, suggesting that the Autumn Meeting 
Meeting of the Garden Club of America be held in Philadelphia. 
It was also announced that the Garden Club of Wilmington had 
extended an invitation for the day following the meeting in Phila- 
delphia. The Secretary was requested to inform the Wilmington 
Club of the appreciation of the Board in accepting this offer, and to 
suggest that the President communicate with the Garden Club of 
Philadelphia in regard to arrangements. The Directors thought 
that the tenth of October would be a satisfactory date for the Phila- 
delphia meeting, and deferred a decision regarding the Directors' 
Meeting to take place at that time until the Summer Meeting of the 
Board. 
It was agreed that the central office would assist with circulariza- Special 
tion of the membership by the various Committees, but that personal Committee 
stenographic work could not always be attended to by the Executive Work 
Secretary. 
Upon motion of Mrs. Rand, duly seconded, it was 
Voted: That the Secretary be requested to send an expression Vote of 
of appreciation to the Green Meadow Club at Rye for its hearty Apprecia- 
co-operation on May nth, at the time of the Annual Meeting tion to 
of the Garden Club of America, Green 
Upon the announcement that insuflScient checks had been re- p 
ceived to cover total cost of luncheons provided by the Green Meadow 
Club, and that the deficit had been met by the Rye Garden Club, it 
was 
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