Zhe <$arfcen Club 
of amcrlca 
April 1915 
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 
No. VIII 
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. 
The Annual Meeting in Baltimore will be held on May 10th, 1 1th 
and 12th. Special rates have been offered by the Belvedere Hotel, and 
it is important that all delegates and non-delegates reserve their rooms 
as soon as possible, as the accommodation is limited. The meetings 
promise to be extremely interesting and profitable. It is also necessary 
that the Secretary of the Reception Committee, Miss Elisabeth L. Clark, 
1025 Belvedere Terrace, Baltimore, should be notified before April 15th 
of the names of the two delegates from each club and the number of 
the non-delegates, in order to conclude arrangements for their entertainment. 
The editors call attention with much regret to a misprint in the 
January Bulletin in the paragraph containing the offer of Mrs. Charles 
H. Stout, Short Hills, N. J., to sell tubers and plants of her wonderful 
gold-colored seedling dahlia, Sunshine, for the aid of the Red Cross 
Society. 
The paper on "The Most Economical Planting of a Small Plot of 
Ground for Food" is now ready, and copies for distribution will be sent 
to all the clubs by Mrs. Horace Sellers, Chairman, Ardmore, Pa. 
Suggestions from HDembers 
The plaint of a Garden Club member, that all her pink platycodons 
came blue, only emphasizes the conclusion that most seed catalogue 
swans are geese. One reads glowing and poetic accounts, studies pic- 
tures of large, gay and vigorous specialties, and passes from a hopeful 
spring to a disillusioned summer. 
