in the gardens hurt your feelings. You will say to yourself, "But I 
refused to let my gardener plant this or that in my garden. I wonder 
why, for it is lovely?" It is the chmate that makes you like it. 
Do not be deceived into planting it in your garden next year. It 
would not do. It would only make you uncomfortably hot here, 
whereas in England with the cold and the dampness, your eyes 
dehght in the warmth of color. The old iron gates, the garden walls, 
the lead water holders, shrubbery, flying buttresses of Yew, carpets 
of Ivy, Box, their Laurel (which is not Kahnia,) will fill you with envy. 
Remember how long that garden has Hved and blossomed where it 
now stands, and have patience. Study their forms and planting and 
do copy, when you return, something you have seen in their vegetable 
gardens, for their vegetable gardens have a charm which makes them 
quite as dehghtful to visit as their flower gardens. 
For myseK, after my first visit at an Enghsh country house, I came 
home filled with the idea of beautifying the vegetable garden; and 
have found that an herbaceous border there has given me great 
pleasure. I also became enamoured of their espalier fruit trees; 
but take heed, if some unwary visitors of this summer hope to have 
fruit from espaher trees in this country, let me warn them that while 
even here they are lovely to look upon, their fruit will be next to 
impossible to find. I suggest instead for the Eastern States Japanese 
flowering fruit trees, from which no fruit is expected. 
The Board of Directors of the Garden Club of America are 
considering a resolution requesting and authorizing the Chairman of 
the Committee on International Relations to issue in the name of 
the Club cards of introduction to the Royal Horticultural Society; 
the Chairman of the Committee to sign the cards which are to be 
issued only at the request of the President of the Garden Club to 
which the appHcant belongs and upon written application, signed by 
the President, stating as fully as possible the horticultural interests 
and experience of the applicant; members-at-large to be vouched for 
by the President or Secretary of the Garden Club of America. 
I ask the Presidents of Garden Clubs to be most particular when 
asking for introductions to the Royal Horticultural Society to state 
as fully as they can the experience, the special interest and the 
knowledge of the apphcant, and I urge that no Club make many appH- 
cations in the same year. 
I am sure that those who, avaihng themselves of the opportunities 
which the kindness of the Royal Horticultural Society opens to us, 
visit some of these Enghsh gardens, will be delighted with the hospital- 
ity of their owners and will count the experience amongst their precious 
recollections. They will never forget the quiet charm and dignity, the 
gracious and mellow spirit which broods within the garden walls of 
England. 
(Mrs, Randal) Frances Biddle Williams Morgan. 
Chairman of the Committee on 
International Relations. 
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