A lecture on "Birds," by Mr. Herbert K. Job, was given under 
the auspices of the club, and was free to the public, with a view to in- 
structing the children, who responded by a gratifyingly large attendance. 
The club feels keenly the necessity of a widespread campaign of educa- 
tion as to the value of birds, both from the point of view of their utility 
and their aesthetic value. Few questions before the American people 
to-day are of greater importance than that of protecting our trees from 
the ravages of insects, and nearly all our birds are great conservators of 
forests. 
A third and most charming lecture was delivered before the club 
by Mr. Chester Jay Hunt on "The Romantic Tulip," with some very 
practical and inspiring information added. 
The Litchfield Garden Club has started a library of its own, and 
the librarian has a number of excellent papers, which are at the service 
of any of the member clubs. 
A Plant Committee has been appointed and at each meeting there 
is to be posted a list of plants for sale by members having a surplus of 
such plants. Members also bring whatever cut flowers they have in 
perfection. These are sold to club members for a nominal sum, thereby 
adding, in the season, a substantial sum to the ever-needy treasury. 
The New Haven Railroad station and surroundings at Litchfield 
have been the one unsightly feature of the otherwise beautiful town, and 
the Garden Club, last October, 1914, acting in co-operation with the 
Village Improvement Association, reclaimed and planted with shrubs 
and climbing roses seventy-five feet of bank facing the station. The 
railroad company then planted sixty fir trees and paved with stones a 
small brook near the bank, and have agreed to work with the club in 
continuing the improvement to the land surrounding the station. 
The Gladiolus was selected as the flower to which the members 
bent their best efforts toward successful cultivation, and a show, small 
but satisfactory, was held in August. 
The event in the season's course, in which the club feel the most 
grateful satisfaction, is their admission as a member club to the Garden 
Club of America. 
Margaret L. Gage. 
PROGRAM OF LITCHFIELD GARDEN CLUB 
SEASON OF 1916 
June 9, 1916. — Business Meeting. 
June 23, 1916.— Talk by Mr. John Lindley on "Flora of Litchfield County 
and Vicinity." 
July 7, 1916. — Lecture by Mr. Cumming, of Pierson & Co., on "Roses," 
illustrated by specimens of roses. 
July 21, 1916. — Paper on "Lilies," by Mrs. Henry S. Munroe. 
Aug. 4, 1916.— 
Aug. 18, 1916. — Paper, "An Annual Garden," by Miss Richards. Garden 
to be shown. 
