Tke National Garden Association 
Honorary Vice-Presidents: 
Thomas G. Winter, Mrs. 
D. Sherman. 
President: Leonard Barron, F.R.H.S. 
J. Horace McFarland, Mrs. Francis King, Mrs. Russell Tyson, Mrs. 
Samuel Sloan, Mr. Frederick Newbold, Mr. Robert Pyle, Mrs. John 
Cooperating Societies: National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild; American Dahlia Society; American 
Iris Society; Ontario Horticultural Association; American Forestry Association; Women’sNa- 
tional Farm and Garden Association; Wild Flower Preservation Society; National Horticul¬ 
tural Society; The Agassiz Association ; The School Nature League ; Society of Little Gardens. 
National Garden Week for 1924 to be observed April 2otk— 26th 
Endorsed by President Coolidge and tke Governors of States 
Successfully Launched Last Spring National Garden Week Becomes a Recurrent Yearly Festivity Throughout 
the Country—This Planfor BetterGardeningand Better Citizenry,as Suggested by The Garden Magazine and 
Adopted by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, Now Sponsored Also by the Better Homes Association 
IP^IIIS 1 HE date for National Garden Week approaches, it 
becomes evident that there is to be, if possible, an even 
j/Ww. more general observance of this week than that of last 
Encouraging response is coming in daily from the Governors, 
all of whom have been asked to either endorse or proclaim this 
week in their respective states. The following have already 
announced their intention to cooperate: Governor Ritchie, Mary¬ 
land; Governor Pinchot, Pennsylvania; Governor Denney, Dela¬ 
ware; Governor Cox, Massachusetts; Governor Ross, Wyoming; 
Governor Parker, Louisiana; Governor Mabey, Utah; Governor 
Walker. Georgia; Governor Whitfield, Mississippi; Governor 
Hunt, Arizona; Governor Donahey, Ohio; Governor McLeod, 
South Carolina. Others will take action before April 20th. 
I his week, observed in literally thousands of communities last 
year, brought out clearly that we, as a nation, are deeply and 
profoundly interested in home beautifying and civic betterment. 
In these times of world-stress, it is a most heartening indication 
of our nation’s solidity and steadiness of purpose to find that 
Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, National Officials, 
State Executives, Libraries; Schools and Churches; Rotary, 
Kiwanis and Lions Clubs, as well as many thousands of Women’s 
Clubs turned earnestly to making homes and cities more beauti¬ 
ful and better places to live in. 
The program as outlined by the Genera! Federation of 
Women’s Clubs and The Garden Magazine was followed in 
nearly all cases, but each locality found some specially helpful 
individual work to add to the general program. A few of the 
many hundred highlights in 
the picture of last spring’s 
Garden Week are here set 
down by way of inspiration 
for this season’s plans. 
Things Your Town 
Might Do 
r NARBERTH, PA„a 
town of a thousand 
homes and a thousand and 
one gardens, an eight-acre 
Playground and Recreation 
Center was bought so that 
“the homemakers and their 
children and their children’s 
children would have for all 
time ample space for out¬ 
door recreation!” If every 
town would do this (as 
they so easily could) what 
a heritage of beauty and wealth would be preserved for our 
children! 
At Springfield, Mass., the very full program was augmented 
by Noon Shop and Factory Talks. So far as we know, this was 
the only city including this particular effort for better homes 
and citizenship, the value of which cannot be overestimated. 
The Community Flower Society of Columbus, Ohio, held a 
Plant and Shrub market and aided the Boy Scouts to establish 
a Bird Sanctuary in a suburban park. 
The Pacific Light and Power Co. offered prizes for the best 
improvements in the company’s grounds at each of their 60 
different stations in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. The re¬ 
sults demonstrated clearly that public utility grounds can be 
made beautiful and attractive—a hint of value to every large 
manufacturing company. 
At Oklahoma City the Garden Flower Club started a wild 
flower sanctuary, the only garden of its kind in the Southwest. 
There are 500 varieties of wild flowers peculiar to this state alone 
and the saving of these for future generations is part of a na¬ 
tional wave of conservation of great permanent importance. 
At Douglaston, L. I., the Garden Club aided in securing a 
motion picture machine for use in nature study work in the local 
schools. 
Railroads improved their station grounds, the trackmen in 
many instances clearing up the sidings and actively cooperating 
in every way. (See pages 
288, 289, Jan., 1924, G. M.) 
The Civiton Club of Jack¬ 
sonville, Florida, not only 
assumed the planting of 
trees on each side of a 15- 
mile highway in Florida, but 
personally scattered one 
thousand pounds of seeds of 
Phlox and other flowers. 
Illustrated Lectures for 
Clubs and Communities 
IN NEARLY every local- 
1 ity there was a demand for 
illustrated lectures on gar¬ 
dens and on the many phases 
of gardening, and we are 
glad to be able to announce 
that a number are nowavail- 
able at very moderate cost. 
President Coolidge’s Endorsement 
The White House 
Washington 
It is a pleasure to comply with your request for a word 
expressive of my attitude toward the National Garden 
Week Campaign which is to be undertaken this spring. | 
. National Garden Week seems now to be well | 
on the way to establishment as a fixed national affair, | 
and I hope this year’s bservations of it will strengthen j 
its position in the public interest and activities. 
(Signed) Calvin Coolidge 
(Excerpt from the President’s letter of January iy, 1924, to Mrs. Thomas | 
G. IVinter, President of the General Federation of IVomen’s Clubs) 
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