The National Garden Association 
Formed io promote the annual observance of National Garden IVeek 
Leonard Barron, F.R.H.S., President 
Honorary Vice-Presidents: J. Horace McFarland, Mrs. Francis King, Mrs. Russell Tyson, Mrs. 
Thomas G. Winter, Mrs. Samuel Sloan, Mr. Frederick Newbold, Mr. Robert Pyle, Mrs. John 
D. Sherman. 
Cooperating Societies: National Plant, Flower and FruitGuild; American Dahlia Society; American 
Iris Society; Ontario Horticultural Association; American Forestry Association; Women’s Na¬ 
tional Farm and Garden Association; Wild Flower Preservation Society; National Horticul¬ 
tural Society; The Agassiz Association; The School Nature League; Society of Little Gardens. 
Easter Week is National Garden Week, April 2 oth- 26 th 
Endorsed by President Coolidge and the Governors of States 
Successfully Launched Last Spring National Garden Week Becomes a Recurrent Yearly Festivity Thoughout 
the Country—This Plan for Better Gardening and 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 
VWj^lTH all of the many requests for Garden Week material 
that have come to us this year, has come also indubi- 
Ugm table proof of the enduring and constructive worth of 
||the plans carried out last spring. I laving stood the test 
of twelve months, these varied activities bear convincing witness 
to what National Garden Week may mean to each community. 
“We will feature National Garden Week as we did last year. 
It is a movement which, once on its way, can never he stopped.” 
From Chicago comes this word from the member of a garden 
club so unique and inspiring that we are glad to quote fully the 
letter telling about it. If this can be done so well in Chicago, 
it is something that can be carried out in every large city— 
our correspondent writes: 
We have formed a Garden Club among the utility companies 
in Chicago with a membership of about 3,000, all employees of the 
Commonwealth Edison Co., People’s Gaslight & Coke Co., Public 
Service Co. of Northern Illinois, and Metropolitan Elevated Rail¬ 
road Company. We have Spring and Fall Flower Shows. We 
also have a garden library with books on subjects of interest to 
garden members. 
Building A Nation Beautiful 
M ISSISSIPPI is carrying on acampaign for forming “Garden 
Cities.” This work is conducted by H. W. Fristoe, Exten¬ 
sion Vegetable Specialist. The “citizens” of these garden 
cities are the young school children of the communities. Each 
child between 6 and 16 years of age enrolled in the local school is 
given a garden 12 x 12 ft. The entire membership in each 
town is organized into a Garden City with a complete set of 
officers to handle its affairs—Mayor, City Council, Commission¬ 
ers of Tools, Water, Walks, etc. The work has interested the 
Kiwanis and other men’s clubs who are aiding with the plan. 
The first Garden City has 150 “citizens” and as soon as their 
gardens begin to produce, markets are established and the pro¬ 
ducts placed on sale. Prizes are offered for the best gardens, 
etc. Physically, morally, and financially the plan has been a 
success, and the National Garden Association will gladly send 
to Mr. Fristoe all inquiries regarding this project. 
The Valley Garden Club of Syracuse, N. Y. is urging the 
formation of a garden club in every town in New York State in 
an endeavor to make New York known as the State Beautiful. 
Mrs. John Muller is President of this society that will gladly 
help in all ways with this work. The club urges the beauti¬ 
fication of all highways and unsightly places, stressing the 
importance of forming Junior Leagues among the children. 
If every town in the state would start such a club, New York 
would soon rival the wonderful program of Florida (see below). 
From Flushing, L. I., where the entire program was carried out, 
comes a report of the Hospital Garden given to the Hospital 
by the Flushing Garden Club during National Garden Week 
that will be an inspiration to every garden club in the country: 
“There it stands, this little garden spot in its simple beauty 
consoling to the tired ones who have watched it grow green, and 
well kept and tranquil. And when we contrast it with the 
ugliness that would have been had not the Garden Club inter¬ 
vened, then surely we give thanks.” 
The thanks given for this garden may equally be accorded 
the many Bird and Wild Flower Sanctuaries established, the 
Childrens’ Playgrounds opened up, the Tourist Camps built 
and beautified, and the Roadsides Planted to Beauty and 
Cleared of Billboards—heartening news, all of it, and making 
for countrywide progress and the deep, sane happiness of a 
nation that delves out-of-doors. 
“Swat the Sign and Save the Scenery” 
T HE anti-billboard Campaign is growing and spreading. 
It has taken root in England where the London Times and 
the Spectator announce the names of firms agreeing to cooperate. 
In Massachusetts, strict new rules have been issued by the 
Department of Public Works. All outdoor advertisers are 
required to secure a license (costing $50 which must be renewed 
yearly). No signs may be within 50 feet of the highway, and 
there are also drastic size regulations. No outdoor advertising 
shall be painted or affixed upon any fence or pole within 50 feet 
of any highway or directly on the wall of any building,; with 
other restrictions also. That means just one thing in Massa¬ 
chusetts: “ Billboards must go!” 
In Florida the State Beautification Committee still swings 
far in the lead in its state-wide campaign. Its splendid program 
of road building and beautifying creates county commissions 
and in each case such committees work hand in hand with the 
county commissioners and all civic organizations. In this way 
every highway is looked after, with consequent prevention of 
needless cutting down of trees, planting of new trees and shrubs, 
preservation of all historical or beauty spots in the state. There 
is also embodied in this program a campaign to induce owners 
of certain acreages “ to deed these for all time as parks for the 
people.” Great stretches of native Pine and Cypress and other 
wild growth will thus be preserved. And at all times are they 
working for the abolishment of billboards, using this slogan 
“Swat the sign and save the scenery,” so effectively that re¬ 
cently 10,000 such signs have been destroyed in four counties. 
To plant one million trees in the next ten years is the hope of 
this commission, these plantings to be supplemented with shrub- 
