either tropical conditions, when they bloom all the year, or a cool house 
in the winter, when they will bloom in a wet sunny spot in summer. 
They bear large bunches of white fragrant lilies. 
The following letter speaks for itself: 
"Enclosed you will find a cutting from the catalogue of 
in which they distinctly advertise a pink Platycodon. I had never before 
heard of it, but imagining it would be very lovely, ordered a dozen plants, 
every one of which bloomed a clear dark blue, the usual color. I then 
wrote to the dealer, stating the fact and asking if they really had a pink, 
as I'd never seen one, and the enclosed letter came in reply 'Regarding 
the Platycodon, would say there is no real good pink! One year they 
may come up rose blue, and the next year they might be a lavender 
pink,' etc. Would it be worth while to write a word or two in The 
Bulletin on the futility of seedsmen cataloguing what they have not 
and probably never have had? I don't believe a word of their coming 
up pink one year and blue the next." . . . This is one of the matters 
which the Garden Club of America hopes to improve greatly by carefully 
considered co-operation. 
Mrs. Andrew Wright Crawford, of the Weeders, writes: "I 
would like to recommend the planting of Molly Sharman Crawford, a 
constant blooming white rose and the Duchess of Wellington, an enchant- 
ing yellow rose, that is a constant joy." 
Mrs. Brewster, of the Garden Club of Illinois, writes: 
The Garden Club of Illinois has been the means of starting a con- 
servation and forestry movement among the towns of the North Shore of 
Chicago. The unusual number of pests of the less destructive variety, 
and the threatened advance of the gypsy moth, found this season as far 
West as Cleveland, created a situation which seemed to call for im- 
mediate and concerted action. 
To this end, the Garden Club, working through the Village Coun- 
cil, the Improvement Society and the Park Board, has caused mass 
meetings to be held in various adjoining towns. The Club has met the 
expenses of the meetings and has secured speakers, expert foresters and 
entymologists, who have illustrated their lectures with charts and lantern 
slides. 
As a result of the meetings, resolutions have been passed that the 
towns appoint permanent commissions to start and superintend necessary 
conservation and the forestry work, and, if possible, to engage — in con- 
junction with other North Shore towns — a competent forester to oversee 
all advisable work. 
Since the first mass meeting, held in Lake Forest, August 25th, that 
town already owns and is operating a spraying machine. 
The fashion of using statuary in English garden was introduced by 
Henry VIII. 
