The chairman of the Committee on Lecturers, Mrs. Geo. A. 
Armour, Princeton, N. J., has a list of lecturers recommended by the 
clubs which she will forward on request. Mrs. Armour will be glad to 
receive additional names of lecturers who have proved interesting or 
instructive. 
The Garden Club of America was much gratified to receive an 
invitation to plant a model garden at the Panama Exhibition. We 
regretted that our limited financial resources prevented us from under- 
taking this interesting piece of work, but it has been suggested that we 
should be represented by a prize in one of the following classes: Best 
display of flowering bulbs, best exhibit of ornamental shrubbery, finest 
accomplishment in horticulture origination. The last seems particularly 
attractive, and the Secretary will be glad to hear from any one who 
wishes to contribute a small sum for this purpose, as the club treasury 
does not warrant any extraordinary demands. 
H Cbrtstmas IReflection 
MRS. A. D. RUSSELL, Garden Club of Princeton 
On Christmas Eve we chanced to go to Madison Square just as 
sunset, and, as the evening shadows fell about us, hundreds of people 
gathered there. 
Many different nationalities mingled and all classes were repre- 
sented, young and old, rich and poor. All were there for one object, to 
see the beautiful evergreen tree which was to be lighted and to shine 
forth and proclaim the Christmas Spirit while one group of singers after 
another sang throughout the evening old English glees and Christmas 
carols. 
As we stood in this perfectly ordered crowd this thought came to 
us: Why should a beautiful Spruce be cut down each year and used to 
give pleasure for a few days only in the public square of many of our 
cities ? 
Why not plant a fair-sized conifer and let it grow and develop 
and be ready each year as the season comes around, in some of the 
public parks in each of these cities? 
Let the people learn to love and prize this friendly tree, and on 
Christmas Eve gather to see the living thing they have watched at all 
seasons lighted and shedding brilliant rays around. 
In these days when electricity is so much used some method could 
be devised so that the tree could be made very beautiful, and by encas- 
ing the wire in non-conductors no harm would result. 
