The Award of the Highest Horticultural Honor 
in the United States. 
The George Robert White Medal op Honor op the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the tear 1921 has 
BEEN AWARDED TO MrS. LoUISA YeOMANS KiNG (FrANCIS) IN 
recognition op her ''Services to Horticulture by increasing 
THE LOVE op PLANTS AND GARDENS AMONG THE WOMEN OP THE 
United States. This has never been awarded to a woman 
BEFORE. 
(The editor considers that the news of this award to our dearly-loved 
Mrs. King wili give more pleasure than any editorial that could be 
■written, and therefore gives it the place of honor in the November 
BULLETIN.) 
THE MAKING OF THE WEST 
It seems to me God took a part of Eden 
And purged it of the things that should not be. 
Then molded on it gentle hills and valleys 
And placed it by his own most wond'rous sea. 
He builded mountains, traced around them rivers, 
He sowed it with a lavish hand in grain: 
He touched it with the energy of Ajax 
And tinged it with the indolence of Spain. 
He conjured fruits and flowers into being 
And all his work was with perfection blest: 
He bathed it in his melted golden sunshine 
And so God made the Great Pacific West! 
The Orerland Monthly. By Kenneth A. Millican. 
News of Three Western Garden Clubs 
The Garden Clubs of Denver, Pasadena and Santa 
Barbara and Montecito, have assisted in making this the 
"Western Number" of the Bulletin. Their response to a 
request for help was most gratifying, and the editors regret 
that owing to lack of space many of the contributions had to 
be omitted, 
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