as they gracefully put it, have the pleasure of knowing as many of us 
as possible. 
Though on the second day the rain fell in torrents, we drove to 
the Green Spring Valley Kennel Club as the guests of the Green 
Spring Valley Garden Club, and the splendid hounds stood at the en- 
trance to welcome us. The luncheon there was even more intimate, for 
by this time we had begun to know each other better ; and now that these 
delightful days are over, we can look forward to the charm of renewed 
acquaintance when we meet again in Lenox next spring. 
Let us hope that the vast number of "nons" who seem to find time 
for, and interest in, these meetings may not embarrass our future hosts — 
and let us suggest that we really not need be quite so sumptuously pro- 
vided for. 
An old French recipe says: A soup of ciboule (scallion), cereuil 
(chervil), oseille (sorrel), and a tiny bunch of parsley and mint, with 
a little milk and a morsel of butter, a pinch or two of salt and pepper, 
and a thin slice of bread make a potage for a king! 
So let our hosts remember that we are not even queens, and give 
us fare befitting our station ! „ n r- 
Elizabeth P. Frazier, 
Garden Club of Philadelphia. 
H letter to tbe Bulletin 
Lenox, Mass., June 10th. 
Dear Bulletin: 
You ask for some impressions of the Baltimore meeting of The 
Garden Club of America. I was chiefly impressed with the earnestness 
of the proceedings, the high percentage of beauty among the ladies 
present, and that I seemed to be the only surviving member of my sex 
interested in the politics of gardening. 
Referring to the exhibition of lantern slide views of gardens, let 
me repeat my plea for a little better collection to show in future. Now 
is the time when our gardens are most beautiful and the sunlight best for 
taking photographs. The autochrome glass plates give us the real 
charm of the garden, its feast of color. Those made in Paris by the 
Lumiere Company seem to be the best. Snapshots cannot be made on 
these plates. A special "color screen" of orange-tinted glass must be 
used, and the exposure made from a tripod. I am not an expert and 
would refer those interested to the Lumiere- Jugla Company, of New 
York, for advice. Any plate camera, with a really good lens, can be 
used. 
My little garden is just beginning to recover from a severe attack 
of weeds and insects which overwhelmed it during my absence in Cali- 
fornia. We are still busy fighting all fifty-seven varieties of each. 
Sometimes I think we have conquered and walk around complacently, all 
