Zbc (Sarfcen Club of Cincinnati 
A Committee on the Improvement of Highways and Settlements, 
with Mrs. Albert Krippendorf as its chairman, was appointed by the 
Cincinnati Garden Club in the spring of 1915, and found itself face to 
face with a problem presenting great possibilities and very decided 
difficulties. As a first step and in order to discover how far the people 
of Cincinnati were in sympathy with its effort, the Garden Club an- 
nounced through the press that 5000 Dorothy Perkins' Roses had been 
procured and would be sold at the nominal price of ten cents each to 
any resident of the city or suburbs who cared to avail himself of the 
offer. Response was immediate and enthusiastic, the demand proving 
so great that instead of 5000, 10,000 plants were disposed of, and it 
was found difficult to supply all orders before the lateness of the season 
made planting impossible. Next spring, however, will see the distribu- 
tion continued with renewed enthusiasm. Encouraged by the success of 
its first effort, the Garden Club has this autumn turned its attention to 
roadside planting, and under the able direction of Mrs. Krippendorf 
four thousand German Iris and eighty thousand Daffodils have been 
naturalized in carefully selected situations. The latest experiment of the 
Garden Club has been in connection with a dirty and neglected plot of 
ground on one of Cincinnati's chief thoroughfares. This depressing spot 
has been cleared, fertilized and cultivated; planted with red bud, dog- 
wood, Spirea Van Houttii and bordered with Iris, and the Garden Club 
looks forward to a time when its blooming beauty will inspire all other 
owners of public eyesores to go and do likewise. The Cincinnati Garden 
Club is still young, but it feels that it has taken at least one step along 
the path that leads to the best and truest expression of itself; that is, to 
the benefit of the many. 
Ethel Wright, 
Garden Club of Cincinnati. 
The Garden Club of Cincinnati has just given a most successful 
evening of lantern slides. About 250 people were asked to see them 
and the pictures were of gardens, old and new. The stately formal 
gardens of Italy and the lovely miniature gardens of Japan were of the 
number. Many views were kindly loaned by Garden Club members 
from other cities, and some were from the gardens of our own Club 
members. 
The well-known garden of Cuernavaca, Mexico, with its won- 
derful old arbor and flight of steps down to the great oval pool was of 
the loveliest. In the end were shown pictures in color of the baskets of 
flowers for table decoration, which was the subject of competition at one 
of our meetings last June. A beautiful white basket filled with 
Delphineum and Candidums was received with great applause. 
Abbie M. Field, 
Garden Club of Cincinnati. 
