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and we have brick pillars covered with Ficus repens, and 
again a combination of brick foundation topped by an 
ornamental wooden fence with spaces for Coprosma and other 
shrubs to grow up in graceful sprays. 
But the gateways which delight one the most and to which one 
returns again and again, are not the newer and more elaborate 
ones, but the simpler entrances so harmoniously placed that 
they possess an old-world charm and one’s garden medita¬ 
tions turn upon the thought that it is not always the effect 
that is striven for which satisfies, but rather that which evolves. 
TRIUMPHS OF NATIONAL GARDEN WEEK 
First Countrywide Festival of Gardening Insp 
Activities for Individual and Community 
Plans Laid for Next Season’s Continuation 
<1 Garden Week 1923 (April 22nd to 28th) has grandly 
accomplished its purpose! In town, city, school and 
college as well as in the individual country home and 
suburban garden THE GARDEN MAGAZINE'S sugges¬ 
tion for concerted action was wholesouledly accepted; 
^HE Garden Club of Spring- 
field, 111 , observed Garden 
Week in February, before 
BnfnP" they had learned of the 
National date. Their programme 
was most varied and interesting. 
At their club house, they held val¬ 
uable exhibits, tables being scattered 
throughout the long galleries where 
model gardens were displayed. 
There were exhibits showing how 
rocky corners could be managed, 
also shaded corners, what could be 
grown in clay, how to plant pools. 
They also had a most interesting 
display of window-boxes working out various color schemes 
for small spaces. 
The Boy Scouts exhibited bird-houses and one small boy dis¬ 
played “flower sticks”—brilliant birds and butterflies carved 
from wood and decorated, poised on long sticks to be stuck in 
flowerpots, ferneries, as ivy racks, etc. They had exhibits at the 
various stores where garden gowns, hats, and baskets were dis¬ 
played. An interesting feature of the week was an illustrated 
talk on local gardens. These had been photographed, showing 
how various obstacles had been met and overcome. 
There was an excellent display of gateways of all kinds, also 
garden paths of grass, brick, and stepping-stones. The use of 
cement in a garden was emphasized, pergolas, pools, walls, sun¬ 
dials, and arbors being shown. All kinds of watering systems 
were featured, as well as various hedges and varieties of flower 
gardens. 
This very progressive club was formed with the idea of foster¬ 
ing cooperation between the florists and the citizens of the city. 
One of the best features of this club’s programme was the even¬ 
ing meetings for the benefit of flower-lovers office-bound by day. 
At these meetings, all afternoon programmes were repeated. 
Trees and Flowers as City Emblems 
The Community Club of Garden City and Hempstead (N. Y.) 
selected helpful phases of the Week for observance in each town. 
Garden City adopted for its slogan, “ Make Garden City a Gar¬ 
den City.” The Rhododendron has become the civic flower. 
Garden seeds being given to the school children in both towns. 
A poster-contest for the children was conducted. The Pillar 
Rose is made the town’s emblem in Hempstead, where the Boy 
Scouts aided in making an outdoor 
reading room at the Hempstead 
public library. This was an espe¬ 
cially interesting development of 
the Week. 
The City of Galt, Ontario, adopts 
the Peony as its civic flower, en¬ 
couraging the growth of these lovely 
blossoms in private grounds, in 
parks, and along public highways. 
Springfield, Mass., has adopted 
the Hollyhock as the local flowvr, 
feeling that it is the symbol of the 
old-fashioned home. Since Spring- 
field is so distinctively a city of homes, no more suitable flower 
could have been chosen. It is easily grown and so inexpensive 
that it is hoped that the entire city will soon be as famous for 
its gay Hollyhocks as is Portland, Ore. for its Roses. 
The Des Moines Iowa Garden Club is working to make Des 
Moines “a Christmas Tree City” in a desire to conserve the 
native Pine forests by planting trees now on Des Moines lawns. 
In years to come as well as at the present time the beautifully 
ornamented and illuminated trees on hundreds of lawns will 
make this a “Christmas City Beautiful.” 
The City Gardens Club of New York City, with a membership 
of 8oo, carried out a programme for Garden Week that is of 
interest to every large city. They planted trees in three of the 
city’s streets. The care of trees in large cities as well as the 
lack of them is a phase of civic-beautifying that is interesting 
each park commissioner. This experiment in our largest city 
will be watched with interest. This Club also had lectures on 
city gardens and many talks and interesting exhibits at the 
public schools. 
The Key, the official magazine of the Kappa Kappa Gamma 
Sorority in an editorial in their April issue urged all chapters 
to observe Garden Week in the effective manner adopted by 
Gamma Rho at Allegheny College (Pa.)—by planting beds of 
Iris in two shades of blue at chapter houses. 
Latest Word from the Clubs 
The Woman’s Club of Jacksonville, Florida, united with the 
Garden Club of Florida to make this week one that will long be 
remembered in civic and club circles. 
people everywhere who have been thinking and talking 
about the garden have set out to do something this year 
by planting shrubbery or flower borders, or sowing 
seeds for vegetables; and the gardener of to-day has 
been extending the hand of help to his less informed 
neighbor. 
<1 Nothing is so stirring as marching shoulder to shoul¬ 
der with your fellows in a great cause 1 
Cl THE GARDEN MAGAZINE has received hundreds 
of reports of things accomplished during the Week, of 
which only some of the earlier can be acknowledged 
here; but the accompanying selection from the early 
accounts is fully representative of the multitude of 
points of contact that “gardening’’ has come to mean. 
<1 What has been well started must now be well con¬ 
tinued, and we shall be grateful to all those who send 
reports of their own activities. It is likely to be help¬ 
ful to others in making next year’s programme. 
