January 4th, Miss Rose Standish Nichols. Subject: "Garden 
Design." 
February 1st, Mrs. Louis Evans Shipman. Subject: "Color 
Planning of the Garden." 
March 1st, Mr. Wilson Arnold. Subject: "Trees and Shrubs." 
We will also have an exhibit of house-grown bulbs early in March, 
but during mid-winter we discontinue our regular meetings. 
Ulster (Barren Club 
The first year of the Ulster Garden Club has proved such a 
profitable and enjoyable one that it is difficult to write of any one thing 
of paramount interest. Probably our two biggest undertakings were 
first a ball, which was given for the Belgian Relief Fund early in the 
year, and later the promoting of gardens for the school children. The 
ball we called the "Jardin de Danse," and it was quite truly a garden 
of flowers. A stage at one end of the hall presented a lovely sight as 
an old-fashioned garden with flowers and shrubs and white garden 
benches. 
The work for the school children's gardens was begun also early 
in the summer by the distribution of seeds in the schools, which were 
sold at a penny a packet. The name of each child who bought seeds 
was entered in a card catalogue. Much to our surprise 724 children 
started the work. 
Kingston is the happy possessor of wonderful greenhouses, and 
the man who owns them kindly consented to go to each school in the 
city to talk to the children about proper methods of planting, etc. 
The Garden Club was divided into committees of three. The 
committees made three visits during the summer and each time, of course, 
eliminations were necessary, so that in the end there were but 1 20 com- 
petitors left. There were four cash prizes offered to each school, and 
three additional prizes for the finest vegetable garden, the best flower 
garden and the most artistically arranged garden. The committees were 
accompanied on their last inspection by the manager of the Ulster County 
Farm Bureau, who helped greatly in final decisions. 
Quite a number of our members are residents of Saugerties, a town 
not far from Kingston. The Saugerties members carried on the same 
school work in their own town, and met with even greater response 
from the children in proportion to the size of the town, as Saugerties is 
not as large as Kingston. 
The Ulster Garden Club has felt this to be a full and successful 
year. 
Isabel S. Warren. 
