Gbe Beoforo (Barren Club 
The Bedford Garden Club holds two regular meetings a month 
during May, June, July, August and September, and one meeting a 
month during the early spring and late fall months. 
During the last year we held one Flower Show in June, when 
roses and other early summer flowers in collections and as specimens 
were exhibited. There were also artistic arrangements of flowers in 
bowls or baskets, and table decorations. 
Several prizes were offered and professionals were invited to judge. 
In September we had a Flower Arrangement Competition in Mrs. 
Henry Marquand's garden. This made a very lovely scene, as the 
flowers were placed under the apple trees surrounding her garden. One 
of the prizes went to the President, Mrs. Frank Hunter Potter, for an 
arrangement suggested by a seventeenth century floral painting. 
We have just formed a committee to take up the subject of plant- 
ing highways, starting school gardens, and beautifying our villages which 
promise to be a very interesting side of our work. 
Henrietta McC. Williams, 
Recording Secretary. 
LIST OF PAPERS AND TOPICS 
Mar. 24, 1915.— House, Mrs. Seth Low; Speaker, Mr. A. H. Pratt. Sub- 
ject, "How to Attract the Birds to the Garden." 
April 7, 1915. — House, Mrs. Charles Gouverneur Weir; Speaker, Mrs. Wil- 
liam A. Hutcheson. Subject, "Flowering Shrubs." 
May 5, 1915. — House, Mrs. Eliphalet Potter; Speaker, Miss Martia 
Leonard. Subject, "Shady Gardens." Short talks by 
Mrs. Benj. W. Morris and Miss Delia W. Marble. 
May 19, 1915.— Visit to the garden of Mr. Benj. F. Fairchild. 
June 2, 1915. — Annual Meeting; House, Mrs. Frank Hunter Potter. 
June 16, 1915. — Flower Show; Hall, the Mt. Kisco Civic and Athletic 
Association. 
July 7, 1915. — House, Mrs. C. Morton Whitman; Speakers, Mrs. Henry 
Marquard, Mrs. Helen Reginald Bishop, Mrs. Marshall 
P. Slade. Subject, "Renovating Lawns." 
July 21, 1915. — Field Day; Visits to Rye Gardens by invitation of Rye 
Garden Club. 
Aug. 4, 1915. — House, Mrs. Lathrop Colgate; Speaker, Mrs. Arthur H. 
Scribner. Subject, "Landscape Gardening at the Pana- 
ma-Pacific Exposition." 
Sept. 8, 1915. — House, Mrs. Henry Marquand; Flower Arrangement Com- 
petition. 
Sept. 22, 1915. — House, Mrs. Moses Taylor; Speaker, Mrs. U. L. Brittin. 
Subject, "Early Spring and Summer Flowers." 
Oct. 6, 1915. — House, Mrs. George S. Nichols; Speaker, Miss Averil. 
Subject, "Japanese Flower Arrangements." 
Oct. 20, 1915. — House, Mrs. Arthur H. Scribner; Speaker, Frederick 
Peterson. Subject, "Chinese Gardens," illustrated by 
Chinese paintings. 
