The Garden Club of Illinois 
The Garden Club of Illinois reports that as so much is being done 
in Chicago by larger organizations, the Garden Club is working in 
co-operation with them. 
The Garden Club of Lawrence 
The Garden Club of Lawrence is co-operating with the General 
Organized Movement on Long Island to encourage the sowing of food 
stuffs. A plant exchange has been arranged and two money prizes 
have been offered, one for the best vegetable garden to a person who 
has never had a garden before and one for the best bushel of potatoes 
to a person who has never grown potatoes before. Boy Scouts are 
being organized to help cultivate vacant lots, and community plow- 
ing and planting has already been started. 
Lenox Garden Club 
The Lenox Garden Club has decided to make a radical change for 
the present from the ornamental to the useful and to stimulate the 
community to take up definite lines of helpfulness. Three Commit- 
tees have been formed. 
ist. — A Census Committee to gather information on the number 
and acreage of existing vegetable gardens and their capacities through- 
out the district covered by the Club. 
2nd. — A Committee to report on the most economical purchase 
of seed and fertilizer. 
3rd. — A Committee to inquire into the question of food conser- 
vation, canning, drying, cold storage, etc. 
The Millbrook Garden Club 
The Millbrook Garden Club expects to start a canning plant for 
the surplus vegetables and fruits. 
Garden Club of Michigan 
As one-half the members of the Club live in Grosse Point, we have 
co-operated with the existing settlement, the Mutual Aid Society and 
the Neighborhood Club in organizing Home Garden Clubs in the 
schools of the township under the Federal and State plan used in 
seventy-two towns in Michigan. The Garden Club has pledged the 
salary of the supervisor, given an automobile for his use and prizes 
for the children. There are eight schools in twenty square miles. 
