Bulletin of 
Zhe <$arfcen Club 
of Hmerica 
May, 1917 No. XX 
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 FlFTH AvENUE> Nfw Yo rk and 
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MRS. BAYARD HENRY .,„„ rB ...„ K VTV r* 
Germantown, Philadelphia MKb - 'KAiSLib kijnl. 
, ., . Alma, Michigan 
Librarian 
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. 
Gather this harvest that I have sown, as in the past I myself have filled 
again the furrows my father plowed. 
O joyful work of the farmer, for which the sun is as bright as our glisten- 
ing ox, and the rain is our banker, and God works with us every day, 
making of everything the best! 
Others look to men for their rewards, but we receive ours straight from 
heaven itself, 
A hundred for one, the full ear for a seed, and the tree for a nut. 
For such is the justice of God to us, and the measure with which He repays 
us. 
The earth cleaves to the sky, the body to the spirit, all things that He 
has created are in communion, all have need of one another. 
Take the handles of the plow in my stead, that the earth ma}' bring forth 
bread as God himself has wished. 
Give food to all creatures, men and animals, to spirits and bodies, and 
to immortal souls. . . ." 
Paul Clatjdel. 
Translation by Louise Morgan Sill. 
