The Garden Club of Lawrence 
The Garden Club of Lawrence had seven meetings during the 
season of 1916, beginning the first Thursday morning in May at 
11:00 a. m. and held each month, at the same hour and day, through 
November. There was a lecture and a Flower Show at each meeting 
except the October ones. 
Owing to the large number of members (138) there was some extra 
money in the Treasury, so it was voted to give $150.00 for a scholar- 
ship to the Ambler School of Horticulture. Miss Lee, the directress 
of the School, selected for us a worthy and promising applicant. 
The Garden Club also gave $50.00 to a Committee who inspected 
the places of the working people for prizes for clean lots and yards. 
This Committee gave three prizes of $25.00, $15.00 and $10.00 each. 
The Garden Club also gave $150.00 to a sub-committee of its 
own Club for the improvement of highways. This money is to be 
used for planting trees in the village streets. A house to house can- 
vass is now being made asking storekeepers and householders to put 
out trees in front of their places at their own expense. A contract 
has been made with a nursery man whereby for $2.50 each, he 
provides and plants the tree. So the money given by the Garden 
Club to this Committee will not all be used this year, but will be kept 
to supplement the work of next year. This Committee has also 
raised money by private subscription to plant two long causeways 
with willows. 
The season of 191 7 will begin in May and there will be six meet- 
ings; one each month in the morning with a lecture, and four Flower 
Shows held in the afternoon. Three of them; one in May, Tulips; 
one in June, Roses; and one in November, Chrysanthemums, are to be 
held at private houses with professional judges and simple prizes, 
mostly ribbons. 
In September we are planning to have our first large Show for 
Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables, and we expect to ask professionals to 
compete in classes provided by them. The Show will be held in a 
public hall, open to the public for a small admission fee, with tea 
served for the benefit of a local charity, and we are going to work very 
hard to make it a success and to show what the Garden Club^of 
Lawrence can do in the fifth year of its existence. 
Caroline G. Santord. 
The Lenox Garden Club 
The notable event of 191 6 to the Lenox Garden Club was the visit 
in June of its Sister Clubs. The thirty-two Clubs belonging to the 
Garden Club of America all sent representatives to this, for us, very 
interesting gathering. 
