With over fifteen hundred members in the Garden Club of 
America, it would seem easily possible to take up the edition which we 
now have the opportunity of doing before it is offered in England, and 
surely so progressive and influential an organization should further a 
pioneer movement in this direction. 
As some of the Garden Clubs only hold summer meetings, would 
it not be wise for each club to find out exactly how many of its mem- 
bers would subscribe, so that the committee in charge would have some- 
thing definite to go upon? At the last Annual Meeting the matter was 
held in abeyance because the delegates could not pledge their clubs to 
subscribe for any specific number. 
Copies of the chart may be obtained from Dr. Robert Ridgway, 
Bird Haven, Olney, 111. 
Emily D. Renwick, 
Short Hills Garden Club. 
It is the suggestion of the Executive Committee that all member 
clubs give the matter of a color chart serious consideration and send to 
The BULLETIN, for insertion in one of its winter numbers, any ideas 
and suggestions they may have on the subject. As Mrs. Renwick says, 
it is a question of great importance, and one very difficult to settle. 
There exist two or three charts, all of which are well done but very 
bulky. A simplified form of one of them would seem to meet the re- 
quirements of the club and of seedsmen. This is one of the matters in 
which the Garden Club of America ought to be able to exert real 
influence. 
an Unvitatton 
The Garden Club of Short Hills, N. J., will hold its Sixth An- 
nual Dahlia Show at the Short Hills Club House, on Wednesday and 
Thursday, September 29 and 30, 1915. 
All members of the Garden Club of America are invited to attend 
and also to exhibit. The rules for exhibition require that three blooms 
to one vase of each variety be shown, and that all who wish to compete 
for the cups pay an entry fee of $1.00. This fee pays the expenses of 
the show. 
Garden Club members are also cordially invited to take lunch at 
the Club House on Thursday, September 30th, as the guests of the 
Short Hills Garden Club. All who are able to accept this charming 
invitation are requested to send a personal word to the Secretary, Mrs. 
Charles H. Stout, Short Hills, N. J. 
A train leaves the D., L. & W. station, Hoboken, at 12.15 P. M. 
and arrives at Short Hills at 12.52 P. M. 
The Garden Club of Cincinnati will hold its invitation exhibition 
for amateur dahlia growers on September 21, 1915. 
The American Dahlia Society will hold its Annual Show at the 
Museum of Natural History, New York, September 24th to 26th. 
