they are "doing their bit" to combat the shortage of food supply, 
so much the topic of the times. 
Mrs. George Higginson, Jr. Emily W. Higginson. 
Garden Club Day at 
the New York Botanical Gardens 
Through the courtesy of the President and Officers of the New 
York Botanical Gardens, a Field Day has been arranged for 
Thursday, May ioth. 
This is to be a special Garden Club Day and it is hoped that all 
members in or near New York will avail themselves of so excellent an 
opportunity to know more intimately this interesting and beautiful 
Botanical Garden and to meet Professor and Mrs. Britton. 
A May day thus spent, with other garden enthusiasts, should 
prove an inspiration to us all. 
Program 
Thursday, May 10, igij 
Motor-cars will proceed first to the Flower Gardens at the Main 
Conservatory Range. The guide car will carry a Garden flag. The 
time until 12 130 will be spent in viewing the Tulip and Lilac Gardens, 
and walking to Pinetum Plaza near by. 
The motor-cars will leave Pinetum Plaza at 12:35 an d proceed by 
way of the Long Bridge to the Collection of Japanese Cherries given 
by Florence Lydig Sturgis. 
Leaving the Cherry Collection at 1 o'clock, the next stop will be 
at the Mansion, the home of the new Garden School, where a light 
buffet lunch will be served at 1 115, for which $.75 each will be charged. 
An account of the new Garden School in co-operation with the In- 
ternational Children's School Farm League will be given in the new 
Lecture Room. 
Paintings, showing buildings and other structures planned for 
the future development of the New York Botanical Garden, and of 
those wild flowers which need protection, will be exhibited. 
After lunch a trip will be made to view the new Rose Garden, 
now being planted a short distance south of the Mansion, in co- 
operation with the Horticultural Society of New York. A stop will 
also be made to view the planting of the Convention Garden for the 
Societv of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists. 
