The Weeders 
During the past year The Weeders have tried to have a feature 
for each meeting. We have had three Flower Shows which have been 
most interesting and instructive. At three meetings we have had 
speakers. Miss Sarah Lowrie gave us an inspiring talk about her 
Adirondack garden, Mrs. Large spoke on Fruit Growing, and Mrs. 
Sayres, member of the Garden Club of Philadelphia, talked to us 
about native wild flowers. Two members wrote most interesting 
papers based on their own experiences; Mrs. Wiley called her paper 
"A Pennsylvania Farmer's Experiences," and Mrs. Hayward wrote 
about her cedars which were successfully transplanted when they 
were fully developed. The papers were read at regular meetings. We 
have found experience meetings to be a great help, when successes and 
failures are discussed. Members often bring specimen flowers to 
pass around. 
In September, Mrs. Read, who represents The Weeders on the 
Garden Club of America Roadside Planting Committee, invited the 
Club to a picnic and tree planting meeting. Everyone was requested 
to bring a tree and after the picnic luncheon we planted the trees 
along a bare roadside. 
In October we had a plant exchange meeting, when members 
brought anything they had to spare and exchanged with someone 
else. 
Under the successful guidance of Mrs. Clay, The Weeders took 
charge of a Booth at the Philadelphia Flower Market held in Ritten- 
house Square in May. 
Two or three members are appointed each year to assist the Main 
Line Civic Association with the Back Yard Garden Contest and The 
Weeders offer a prize. 
We have sent protests to our representative in Congress against 
the proposed power house to be built near the Capitol: also against 
the Shields and Juirs Bill to obtain control of the navigable rivers. 
During the coming year we expect to work along the same lines 
and hope to make a feature of road planting. In the future each 
member will be obliged to write a paper once in every two years. 
Mildred Clarke Williams. 
