Bulletin of 
TLhe <$arfcen Club 
of Hmertca 
September, 1916 No. XVI 
President Vice-Presidents 
MRS. J. WILLIS MARTIN A D rm D1 Tn n ijttcctttt 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia mr S- ARCHIBALD D. RUSSELL 
Treasurer Princeton, New Jersey 
MRS. H. D AUCHINCLOSS MRS BEN j AMIN FAIRCHILD 
33 Secr7afy New Milford - New York 
MRS. BAYARD HENRY MRS. FRANCIS KING 
Germantown, Philadelphia Alma, Michigan 
Librarian 
MISS ERNESTINE A. GOODMAN MRS. JOHN E. NEWELL 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia West Mentor, Ohio 
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. 
Amber and yellow and russet, gold and red, 
The autumnal leaves dream they are summer flowers: 
Day after day, the windless sunny hours 
With feet of flame pass softly overhead: 
Day after day over each perishing leaf 
The windless hours pass with slow-fading flame : 
No song is heard where floods of music came; 
Long garner'd on the field the final sheaf. 
One day a wild and ravishing wind will rise, 
One day a paralysing frost will come, 
And all the glory be taken unaware: 
Dark branches then will lean against the skies, 
Sear leaves will drift the forest-pathways dumb, 
And wold and woodland lie, austere and bare. 
— William Sharp. 
