in the West as in the North; and if our association can be a means of 
feeding this twice blessed flame, let us make the utmost endeavor to 
have a glorious year behind us when we raise our third milestone next 
year in Maryland. 
Our constant, unwavering ambition is to utterly transform that 
no-man's-land of dishevelment and offense along our highways, those 
back yards, and those otherwise unoccupied limbos of cans and rubbish 
that mar our country and try our faith. 
One of our particular objects is to encourage the use of a reliable 
and simple color chart. 
For ourselves we have set a congenial task in the yearly study of 
a practical subject. This year it is "Landscape Gardening in Relation 
to the Placing of the Flower Garden," a fruitful matter indeed, the 
breaking of whose laws is often the root of all evil in our art. It is 
hoped that all the clubs will work on this and contribute papers of not 
over 3000 words by the first of January. 
Committees have also been appointed to report on lecturers, gar- 
den literature, flower shows, and kindred subjects, but nothing can be 
done effectively without the direct co-operation and influence of all the 
clubs and all the members. Let us tell our joy to the four winds of 
heaven. 
"For the glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye." 
policy atrt> Iflsefulnees of tbe (Sarfcen Club 
of Hmerica 
MRS. TIFFANY BLAKE, Garden Club of Illinois 
The Garden Club of America should be primarily a clearing 
house for the ideas initiated or developed by the constituent clubs. It 
should encourage and facilitate an active exchange of such ideas and of 
gardening knowledge among its members. 
For the accomplishment of this general purpose it should devise 
effective means. It should maintain a sufficient organization to pre- 
serve and systematize the information accumulated at the annual meet- 
ings of the club and to make it available at all times to members or 
member clubs. A competent bureau of information, with a well-edited 
bulletin, which has already been started, would serve as a very 
valuable medium for the distribution of practical knowledge. Informa- 
tion on lectures and lecturers, on new articles and gardening literature 
and on gardening activities generally could thus be made available to 
the whole membership. 
Two very important practical services should be accomplished by 
the central body in raising the standard of service in commercial houses 
