Landscapes are the great gardens that the big men and women 
of the future will help to conserve and create. It is inevitable that 
the taste of many members of all Garden Clubs should lead them 
to give all their serious thought to the perfection of that exquisite piece 
of fine jewelry that is represented by the perfectly appointed and main- 
tained little home garden, but there are others who must have within 
their daily vision the mottling and the coloring of big cloud shadows in 
broad landscapes, the changing lights of morning, noon, and evening, 
the dignity and beauty of hundred-year-old trees. 
The range of interests between these two extremes would 
comprise all forms of cultivated and wild conditions. Whatever spe- 
cial interest there may be in either form of gardening, there will always 
be for all who travel beyond the walls of the home and home grounds, 
on foot or in any vehicle, the Great Gardens of the Landscape. 
If the Garden Clubs are to be a potent and far-reaching force, 
they must be active in the conservation of such Great Gardens, and 
they must make little gardens that are of interest to every one who passes 
along the highways. 
Give the passer-by a glimpse of your garden. Open a vista to 
your choicest landscape scenes and to your finest trees. You can do it 
without impairing your privacy. Go beyond this, and make your road- 
sides so distinctively attractive that you may always feel that the appre- 
ciative ones who pass by will gain some of the pleasure from the beauty 
that it is your pleasure to create. 
It is this work, especially, from which the public gains a direct 
benefit, which will be one of the most effective methods of extending the 
usefulness of the Garden Club movement. It will help to lead all the 
people to such an appreciation of flower gardens and landscapes that we 
shall soon see a multitude of gardens, not only in the fine estates, but also 
in every little home ground. It is this multitude of little gardens that will 
give a constant succession of beauty to those who use the highways, not 
alone the few fine gardens on great estates. 
Warren H. Manning. 
In this rapid development of Garden Clubs, springing up as they 
are in every locality, there is a remarkable amount of potential energy 
which, if properly directed might lead to much important knowledge 
with its naturally important results. Am I wrong in feeling that Garden 
Clubs in general, as they stand now, have no co-ordination in what they 
try to do or wish to know and their methods of going about it? Unlike 
any other body of people which wishes to learn a subject, the average 
Garden Club has no definite order of study. 
The most vital spark toward success lies in the freedom and un- 
consciousness of its members in their exchange of experiences. If mem- 
