i\Irs. Gage reported 570 slides, and hopes later to issue a 
classified catalog. 
Mrs. Iselin, the new president of the North Country Garden 
Club, reported the beginning of a crusade against wayside van- 
dals, a crusade of tidiness, and hopes that the State Police may 
be used to patrol the highways on Sundays and holidays to warn 
off trespassers. 
Mrs. Martin reiterated the importance of the Mt. TTnrniliou 
site for the new Botanical Garden in Washington, D. C, instead 
of the inferior and smaller tract nearer the city. 
The invitation of the Newport Garden Association to visit 
them in the summer of 1923 was accepted most delightedly. 
]\Irs. Mercer's careful report on the Questionnaiie about 
initiation fees for any new clubs joining the Garden Club op 
AmeriCxV after this year, was thoroughly gone over, also some 
other matters of importance to admission, and the feeling seemed 
to be that in the future, we must be more careful whom we allow 
to join our increasingly valuable confederation. 
Airs. Warren was entrusted with the re-printing of that most 
invaluable little "Pronouncing Dictionary of Flower Names," 
which was first gotten out by Mrs. King. It will be sold by, and 
for the Garden Club members. 
M. Emile Lemoine of Nancy, France, was elected an Honorary 
Member of the Garden Club op America, 
Attention was called to the necessity of a permanent Recep- 
tion Committee to be made up of women who are thoroughly 
acquainted with the personnel of the Club, and whose duty it 
Avculd be to assist the Hostess Clubs at the large meetings. 
]\Irs. Hutcheson moved that a letter stating what were the 
true requirements of a Garden Club member, should be sent to 
each President to aid her or her Admissions Committee in their 
selection of future members. 
i\Irs. Thorne was given authority to circularize the Presidents 
again for the latest information for her Visitors Book. 
After a vote of thanlvs to the three Hostess Clubs Ave 
adjourned to the well-kept garden behind the Emergency Aid 
Rooms, where a delicious luncheon was served. And then came 
The Jaunt 
One fact is established beyond peradventure by this trip, and 
that is, that a garden can be as beautiful in the fall as at any 
time of the year if you only knoiv how. Our Hostesses warned 
us that there had been a light frost and we were told that the 
gardens were none of them at their best, so we expected to see 
bare flower beds, of excellent proportions; leafless shrubberies, 
well laid out; and the gardens demolished for the winter. But 
we found Abelia sweetly blooming; Aster Tataricus at its best; 
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