Bulletin of 
XLhc <3arben Club 
of Bmerica 
January, 1917 No. XVIII 
President Vice-Presidents 
MRS. J. WILLIS MARTIN 
Chestnut Hill. Philadelphia MRS. ARCHIBALD D. RUSSELL 
Treasurer 34 E . 36TH Street, New York and 
MRS. H. D. AUCHINCLOSS Princeton, New Jersey 
33 E. 6 7 th Street New York and MRS. BENJAMIN FAIRCHILD 
Newport, R. I. 247 ^ IFTU Avenue, New York and 
MRS. BAYARd'hFnRY MR „ ^S^Xr*"* *"" 
Germantown, Philadelphia MKb. t KAN Lib K1WL. 
Librarian AlMA ' Michigan 
MISS ERNESTINE A. GOODMAN MRS. JOHN E. NEWELL 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia West Mentor, Ohio 
Editor 
MRS. WALTER S. BREWSTER 
1320 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, and Lake Forest, Illinois 
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 
Go, little book, and wish to all 
Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, 
A bin of wine, a spice of wit, 
A house with lawns enclosing it, 
A living river by the door, 
A nightingale in the sycamore. 
R. l. s. 
