Zhc <$arben Club 
of Hmertca 
October 1914 
No. VI 
Honorary President 
MRS. C. STUART PATTERSON 
President 
MRS. J. WILLIS MARTIN 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia 
Treasurer 
MRS. H. D. AUCHINCLOSS 
33 E. 67th Street. New York 
Secretary 
MISS ERNESTINE A. GOODMAN 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia 
Vice-Presidents 
MRS. ARCHIBALD D. RUSSELL 
Princeton, New York 
MRS. ALFRED ELY 
New Milford, New York 
MRS. FRANCIS KING 
Alma, Michigan 
MRS. WALTER S. BREWSTER 
Lake Forest, Illinois 
The objects of this association shall be, to stimulate the knowledge and love of garden- 
ing among amateurs, to share the advantages of association, through conference and corre- 
spondence in this country and abroad, to aid in the protection of native plants and birds, and 
to encourage civic planting. 
"Season of mists and mellow fruit fulness." 
The work of organizing the Garden Club for the efficient use of 
its large resources has gone on quietly but steadily during the summer, 
and the President is happy to announce that the sod is broken in many 
directions and some beds are actually made and the good seed sown; 
propitious beginnings that will depend on the members of the Club for 
their utlimate fruitfulness. Particularly at this time do we thank God 
for the untainted glory of the Harvest, with its banners of waving wheat, 
copper and gold in the sun, its bee airships laden with supplies for win- 
ter's siege, its armies of bloom in gorgeous uniform, its bombs of burst- 
ing pods and its ambushes of luscious fruit, dangerous only to the reck- 
less. Lily and Rose govern their kingdoms as from time immemorial, 
good constitutional queens who leave all government to their gardeners 
and grow in peace with their neighbors, envying not the vast extent of 
the democracies of cotton and corn, date and lentil, potato and cereal 
and vine. Even the outlaw weeds and brambles, who trample upon 
the laws of neutrality, are only subject to seizure and confiscation when 
actually destructive. It is significant that the men of the French Revo- 
lution steeped in blood gave the months in their new calendar such names 
as Germinal and Fructidor, symbols of indestructible faith. To this 
great Feast we are all bidden to come and bring our sheaves, whether 
we have planted a thousand acres or a window box, and our Garden 
Club has its own special energies to give and its own garlands for the 
altar of Ceres. But to be definite: 
