XLhc <3ar6en Club 
of Hmerica 
November, 1915 No. XI 
President Vice-Presidents 
MRS. J. WILLIS MARTIN rresaenis 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia MRS. ARCHIBALD D. RUSSELL 
Treasurer Princeton, New Jersey 
MRS. H. D. AUCHINGLOSS MDC A i rorn n-i v 
33 E. 67th Street, New York M % AL EnF3 nP V V 
New Murord, New York 
Secretary 
MRS. BAYARD HENRY MRS. FRANCIS KING 
Germantown, Philadelphia Alma, Michigan 
Librarian 
MISS ERNESTINE A. GOODMAN MRS. WALTER S. BREWSTER 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia Lake Forest, Illinois 
Editor 
MRS. WALTER S. BREWSTER 
Lake Forest, Illinois, and 1 220 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 
1. objects of this association shall be: to stimulate the knowledge and love of 
gardening amo. g irnateurs; to share the advantages of association, through conference and 
correspondence in this c~'"~rr" and abroad; to aid in the protection of native plants and 
birds ; and to encourage civic planting, 
"I was very interested to hear about the garden making. It seems 
strange that while you are planning such things, we, in this hemisphere 
are laying them low. My friends who have been at the front tell me 
of the fine old gardens trampled down by many feet, the statues head- 
less and mutilated, the fountains and little waterfalls that will make no 
more music, and yet here and there some sturdy plant or rose tree com- 
ing out audaciously, defiantly; the perfume and the beauty of those flow- 
ers awakening most poignant feelings in those that march by." — From a 
recent letter from Cambridge, England. 
Zbe first jfrost 
When the thick coat of white dissolves in the tardy sunlight the 
flowers are left blackened and stark. Yesterday's riot of gay-blooming 
zinnias and marigolds is pallid and drenched with last night's icy dews. 
And peace descends on the conscientious tender of flowers. No 
more feverish filling of vase after vase because each day's crop may be 
the last No five o'clock scramble to cover a cherished plant or two 
for cuttings. No hurried, frugal picking of green tomatoes for rather 
poor but traditional pickles. When all is over and summer definitely 
ended, the sailor home from the sea is no less serene than the gardener 
whose ungarnered sheaves are past the help of burlap. 
