Mrs. Thome's question is answered in the following 
appreciation of her vast undertaking. 
"Our Visitor's List of Gardens — what an endless vista of 
happiness this pamphlet has opened out before us. For us, 
travel now assumes a zig-zag course, governed solely by the 
location of the next club members garden. A motoring husband 
told me that no record runs could be made through New England 
if that book was in the car ! 
We have had heart-burnings when that precious non- 
transferable pamphlet has been left in the closed city house and 
we realize that there is no redress for our oversight. But this 
rule is quite as it should be and we are learning to keep our 
Visitor's Book in our lock-boxes with our wills and fur-storage 
receipts ! If lost, it cannot be replaced this year. It is the 
golden key that unlocks for us the gardens of which our 
Presidents and Delegates have raved. It is the Kismet which 
assures a welcome. Through it we have made new friends 
among flowers and flower lovers and have gained new 
inspiration to carry on our sometimes discouraging hobby. 
We hear that our members are availing themselves most 
gratefully of the privileges which Mrs. Thorne has obtained 
for us, eight new garden friends have come to one out-of-the- 
way group of gardens ; twenty, to another group easier of 
access; such delightful people too, it has been such a pleasure 
to welcome them and to be so welcomed, and the hostesses have 
learnt as much as the visitors. In the large gardens we have 
gathered inspiration, appreciation of perspective in planting, 
understanding of the right use of masses of broad leaved 
evergreens and in the small more personal gardens, cared for 
by their owners, we have gathered precious practical 
suggestions for our own beloved gardens. 
We owe all this to ]\Irs. Thome's perseverance and generosity. 
It was her idea, her labor and is her success, and we who have so 
enjoyed the privileges she has gathered for us, "here give her 
our thanks, and our appreciation." 
SLIDES COMMITTEE 
Since the publication of a complete list of lantern slides in the 
July issue of the Bulletin, the following have been received : 
New Canaan Garden Club 28 
North Country Garden Club 37 
Garden Club of Ridgefield 2 
Garden Club of Trenton 11 
Margaret L. Gage, Chairman 
Mrs. Randal Morgan, Chairman of the Committee on Inter- 
national Relations, announces that Mrs. Oakleigh Thome and 
Mrs. S. V. R. Crosby are now members of her Committee. 
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