Those three bewildering June days are on the other side of sum- 
mer, but we who spent them in Lenox do not easily forget. 
Until we came it had rained and rained but the sun came out to 
greet us and shone on hills greener for his absence and gardens fresh 
with the charm of early spring. 
What we did, has been set down elsewhere, but a report of business 
proceedings is too stolid a medium to express the interest and pleasure 
crowded into a few hurried hours or to describe the dissolving views of 
garden after garden sitting gaily among the quiet hills. 
A report may record a vote of thanks but is too opaque to allow the 
gratitude behind to shine clearly through. But the gratitude was 
there and a lively appreciation of all the thought and work that re- 
sulted so beautifully. 
The Lenox Garden Club is asked to accept this as a little "bread 
and butter letter" from all its delighted and grateful guests, whose 
thanks and praise it so palely expresses. 
Absent members of The Garden Club of America are to consider 
it a letter of condolence, bearing sympathy, but little comfort, to those 
who have lost a rare delight. 
Hybrid Teas 
The Routine of the Rose Garden 
at Welwyn 
Glen Cove, Long Island. 
As I was walking up a rose-scented lane in California this Spring, 
admiring the Cherokees tumbling over the fences, the ease with which 
roses were grown in California impressed itself upon me. 
At the turn of the road I came upon a rose bush. I call it bush 
from force of habit. In reality it had the size and seamy bark of a 
dwarf tree. It was planted outside the fence between two acacias. 
I stopped to look at it, for it seemed to me to be very much in the 
shade. It looked like a Killarney, but I asked myself if it could be 
possible that a Killarney, so prone to mildew with us, could produce 
such strong blooms with so little air. 
An old man was walking towards me on the inside of the fence 
and I decided to put my question to him. "That's a splendid rose," 
I said. "What variety is it?" 
"Some Irish name, I think, I don't exactly remember," he 
responded. 
