home gardeners through the medium of the daily press, which is 
eagerly co-operating to make the campaign a success. The official 
bureaus, too, warmly welcomed the newcomer, realizing their own 
limitations in the matter of practical publicity. 
"The plan adopted by the Commission is first to create garden 
volunteers by making the dwellers in cities and towns realize the 
danger in the food situation this year, and then to give these volun- 
teers daily instruction in gardening from the sprouting of seeds in 
hot beds to the harvesting of the ripe crops. 
"The ambition of the Commission to create 1,000,000 new gard- 
eners is conservative. 
The Food Primer will be sent on application to the address given 
above. 
Topics for Discussions 
At the Meeting of the Council of Presidents, held in New York 
on March 16, 191 7, the following questions were presented for 
discussion. Interesting and suggestive answers were given to many 
of them, but since the Garden Club must do its share toward con- 
servation and preparedness, answers to those questions having a 
merely local interest are omitted that more space may be given to 
larger issues. 
1. What part should the Garden Club of America take to 
reduce the high cost of living and what methods can the Member 
Clubs suggest? 
2. In what way can a Garden Club improve civic conditions 
in its town or village? 
3. Can the growing of Medicinal Herbs be encouraged and thereby 
prevent increase in the cost of drugs? 
4. Can the Garden Club of America stimulate the increased 
activity in the preservation of wild flowers, the protection of evergreens, 
laurel, etc.? 
5. How can the destruction of trees by the telephone and tele- 
graphs wires be prevented? 
6. In what way can the Clubs encourage their members to 
improve their gardens? 
7. Would it be possible to standardize the prices paid to Garden 
Club Lecturers? 
8. How do the Clubs get the best Professional Judges for Flower 
Shows and what is the customary charge for such service? 
9. Is it desirable to keep a Garden Club restricted in numbers 
so that there is always a waiting list? 
