The gardens are inspected weekly by volunteers. Free canning and 
evaporation demonstrations are given weekly in two villages. Land 
has been donated and plowed for those who have no facilities at home 
and seeds and plants given. The work is not confined to children, but 
includes all who want a home garden. A thousand copies of the first 
planting plan issued by the Garden Club of America were reprinted 
and distributed through the National League for Women's Service. 
The Gardeners of Montgomery and Delaware Counties 
The Club is interested in plant exchanges where excess vegetable 
plants are distributed, in food conservation and in community can- 
ning centers. Members are acting as judges for school gardens of 
Ardmore, Haverford and Bryn Mawr. One member has given over 
her newly designed and made garden to vegetables instead of flowers 
and another has given fifteen gardens, 20 ft. by 50 ft., to the Boy 
Scouts. The Club's booth at the Rittenhouse Square Flower Market 
made over $400. 
Garden Association in Newport 
The Association is co-operating with other local organizations in 
securing loans of land for planting small gardens. It has been diffi- 
cult to meet the demands of all applicants for allotments. Through 
the association, the best gardeners in Newport have volunteered to 
give advice in planting and the treatment of soil. The Association 
is also planning to hold a Vegetable, Fruit and Flower Market once or 
twice a week for the benefit of the poorer population of Newport. 
The material will be given from the surplus which usually goes to 
waste and will be sold below market prices. The proceeds will be 
divided between the local chapter of the Red Cross and the French 
Horticultural Society. Unsold material will be given to local chari- 
table organizations. 
A member of the Association is trying to arouse interest in some 
practical method of destroying the weeds so pernicious to agriculture. 
It is hoped that some plan will be formulated before autumn, thereby 
accomplishing a practical and valuable work. 
The North County Garden Club of Long Island 
All the members are growing vegetables on a larger scale. One 
member has given up her polo field to potatoes, another has added 
20 acres of potatoes and corn to her estate, another loaned land to 
her employees to plant. The Club has given $100.00 to the Nassau 
