coming year is the taking over of a garden, seventy years old, back 
of the Administration Building at the University of Virginia. 
When Thomas Jefferson planned the University he placed, facing the 
lawn, ten houses for the use of the Professors, and back of these houses 
were gardens enclosed by red brick serpentine walls. Most of these 
have long since passed away, but this one, still remaining, holds all 
of the charm of those bygone years. It was made beautiful by 
Professor Maximillien Scheie de Vere, a Swedish nobleman who had 
the Chair of Modern Languages at the University in 1834. One 
enters it by doors in the brick wall and beholds a tangle of honey- 
suckle, myrtle, wistaria, trumpet-vine, everlasting pea and akebia, 
all of which are rioting over the shrubs, the box, and the roses. Mag- 
nolia and cedar trees afford shade, and the old brick walls are green 
with moss. 
Our plan is to go to work reverentially and restore order, and 
make the garden bloom again. The authorities have given us a free 
hand and we anticipate a most interesting task. 
Julia R. Austen. 
The Garden Club of Allegheny County 
Elected to membership, October, 1916. 
The Amateur Gardeners Club 
No report received. 
Garden Club of Ann Arbor 
The Garden Club of Ann Arbor has felt that its aims would be 
best attained by encouraging the general beautifying of the city, and 
for this reason it has joined hands with the Civic Association, the 
Women's Club, Collegiate Alumnae, and Federated Mothers' Club 
to forward the movement for tidier yards, better gardens, and the 
development of interest among the school children in growing plants 
and vegetables. Accordingly, four departments in the work were 
arranged as follows : 
A. Yard Contest; to encourage tidiness, and the planting of shrub- 
bery. 
B. Garden Contest; for artistic color schemes, continuity of bloom, 
healthfulness of plants. 
C. Gardens of Children; both for vegetables and plants, in every 
ward and in all available vacant lots. 
D. Flower and Vegetable Show; to be held in September. 
Prizes for the first two contests are offered as follows: $15.00, 
$10.00, $5.00. For the third contest three cash prizes of smaller 
amounts and ribbons will be distributed. 
