Report of the Committee on Admissions 
A questionnaire was sent out in July to all Clubs and thirty- 
nine have responded. Based on these answers the Admis- 
sions Committee made the following recommendations: 
1. An initiation fee of fifty dollars shall be paid by Clubs 
entering the Garden Club of America. 
2. The Admissions Committee also recommend that there be 
no yearly limitation to the entrance of Clubs into the Garden 
Club of America; for, if a number of splendid Clubs were 
eligible for membership, it would be a loss to our organization, 
to be obliged to delay their admission for, perhaps a period of 
years. Therefore, 
The question of admitting few or many or none should be 
decided by the Admissions Committee, trusting to them that only 
Clubs will be admitted that will keep the object of the organiza- 
tion in view; that is: 
To widen the knowledge, and encourage the art of fine gar- 
dening; to make an organized and progressive study of horticul- 
ture ; increasing the beauty of out-door America, by the 
furtherance of civic planting and the protection of our native 
plants and birds. 
It is the policy of this Admissions Committee to raise our 
standard and not to close our door. 
3. Clubs applying for membership in the Garden Club of 
America must have existed for two years 
and 
be proposed and seconded, also endorsed by Clubs having per- 
sonal knowledge of the ability and achievements of the majority 
of the members of said Club, 
furthermore 
at least two members of the Admissions Committee, or their 
substitutes, shall visit the club appljdng for membership at two 
regular meetings of that club. These substitutes to be appointed 
by the Admissions Committee. 
Following this 
the Admissions Committee may recommend the admission of this 
club to the Board as a member of the Garden Club of America. 
4. We believe that clubs in a territory not yet occupied by 
other clubs should receive first consideration from the Admissions 
Committee unless special reasons should cause a different 
decision. 
Members at Large should pay an initiation fee of five dollars 
and five dollars yearly dues. ]\Icmbers at large should be those 
who through interest in the purposes of the Garden Club of 
America would be of value to the organization. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Martha Mercer, 
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