Bulletin of 
TLhc <3ar6en Club 
of Hmerica 
March, 1916 No. XIII 
President Vice-Presidents 
MRS. J. WILLIS MARTIN 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia MRS. ARCHIBALD D. RUSSELL 
-p Princeton, New Jersey 
MRS. H D AUCHINCLOSS MRS ALFRED ELY 
33 E. 67th Street. New York New Mi]for<Ji New York 
MRS. BAYARD HENRY MRS. FRANCIS KING 
Germantown, Philadelphia Alma, Michigan 
Librarian 
MISS ERNESTINE A. GOODMAN MRS. WALTER S. BREWSTER 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia Lake Forest, Illinois 
Editor 
MRS. WALTER S. BREWSTER 
Lake Forest, Illinois, and 1220 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 
The objects of this association shall be : to stimulate the knowledge and love of 
gardening among amateurs ; to share the advantages of association, through conference and 
correspondence in this country and abroad; to aid in the protection of native plants and 
birds; and to encourage civic planting. 
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now 
Is hung with blooms along the bow, 
And stands about the woodland ride 
Wearing white for Eastertide. 
Now, of my three score years and ten, 
Twenty will not come again, 
And take from seventy years a score 
It only leaves me fifty more. 
And since to look at things in bloom 
Fifty springs are little room, 
About the woodlands I will go 
To see the cherry hung with snow. 
A. E. Housman, in "A Shropshire Lad." 
Once I followed Spring from March to May. At Sorrento and 
Amain the terraced hills were pink with almonds, and orange trees 
bloomed and bore fruit as is their lavish way. The walls flaunted tufts 
of wall-flowers and daffodils, and hyacinths jeweled the black earth. 
About Florence the peach trees were in bloom, and Roman fields were 
