Committee on Special Plants — Mrs. Stewart reported that very 
little had been done on account of present conditions. 
Testing of New Plants — No report. 
Committee on Medicinal Herbs. — Mr. Fairchild, Chairman, read 
the report. 
The following Clubs were then elected to Membership in the Gar- 
den Club of America: 
North Shore Garden Club of Massachusetts, Mrs. Francis B. 
Crowninshield, President, Marblehead, Massachusetts. Proposed by 
the Philadelphia Garden Club. Seconded by the North Country Gar- 
den Club of Long Island. 
Philipstown Garden Club, Mrs. Samuel Sloan, President, Garrison, 
Putnam County, New York. Proposed by the Ulster Garden Club. 
Seconded by the Lenox Garden Club. 
Garden Club of Morristown, Mrs. G. E. Kissel, President, Morris- 
town, New Jersey. Proposed by the Garden Club of Princeton. 
Seconded by the Garden Club of Southampton. 
Mrs. Martin asked Mrs. John A. Stewart, Jr., President of the 
Short Hills Club, to take the chair during the election of officers. 
The Nominating Committee then presented the following ballot 
for election: 
For President: Mrs. J. Willis Martin, Philadelphia. 
For Secretary: Mrs. Bayard Henry, Philadelphia. 
For Treasurer: Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, New York. 
For Vice-Presidents: Mrs. Archibald D. Russell, Princeton, New 
Jersey; Mrs. Francis King, Alma, Michigan; Mrs. John Newell, 
Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. William Cabell Bruce, Baltimore, Md. 
For Librarian: Miss Ernestine A. Goodman, Philadelphia. 
For Editor: Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Lake Forest, HI. 
It was moved and seconded that the Secretary be instructed to 
cast a ballot. The motion was carried. 
It was moved and seconded that a vote of thanks be given to the 
officers for their work during the past year. 
Mrs. Martin, on resuming the Chair, expressed her deep appre- 
ciation of the honor conferred in her re-election and asked each Mem- 
ber Club to help the Executive Committee in every possible way in 
these days which were bringing increased responsibilities to the 
Garden Club of America. 
Miss Goodman, as Librarian, requested that Clubs should ask for 
publications at least one week before thay are wanted so that she 
would have time to post them. 
The one change in the list of the Vice-Presidents presented for 
