The National Garden Association 
Formed to 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 Fruit Guild; 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. 
iprSHIS month The National Garden Association celebrates its 
first birthday! For the last twelve months, it has endeavored 
Imjjmfisa to reply helpfully to every letter sent it for aid—some 
thousands in all. It has assisted in the formation of garden 
clubs in every state, sending free of charge constitutions, by¬ 
laws, and programs. It has successfully conducted the second obser¬ 
vance of National Garden Week. And it has gathered from every 
possible source information of value to garden enthusiasts. 
The need of this association and its worth has been clearly demon¬ 
strated and it is with the keenest pleasure that its officers are out¬ 
lining new and broader plans for this coming year. Before announc¬ 
ing these new plans, in fact in order to complete them, we should like 
suggestions from each of our readers; 
Do you like this department in the magazine? 
Has it helped you? How can it be more helpful? 
“Cleanliness is Next to Godliness” 
HE date for National Garden Week for 1925 has been decided on, 
April iQth to 25th, a time which seems most nearly to meet the 
spirit and needs of the country in general, with a special date for the 
Southern section, the first week in November of this year. From the 
many worthwhile undertakings of this year a few stand out as point¬ 
ing the way for 1925. 
One of the most practical was the Clean-Up Week observed in 
Pennsylvania. Appeals were sent by the officials of the State Depart¬ 
ments of Health, Forests, and Waters to prepare for a thorough clean¬ 
up. Not onlv the cities were included in this but also the remote 
localities. Forest wardens, state police, and health officers directed this 
crusade to eliminate dirt, fire hazards, and conditions menacing the pub¬ 
lic health, with special attention to breeding spots for flies. The 
program provided for a specific piece of clean-up work each day in the 
week. Such a week should be a part of the 1925 National GardenWeek 
program in each state. F\ P. Willets, Secretary of Agriculture for 
Pennsylvania, has already promised this for his state in a recent letter: 
It would be satisfactory for this state to have Clean-Up Week the same date 
as Garden Week with such publicity as will call it to the attention of the public. 
I believe this will be of very great benefit. 
National Garden Week is including every phase of community ac¬ 
tivity. This is a logical sequence—gardens mean cleaning-up, clean 
surroundings mean better health and better homes, better homes 
mean better citizens and better children, better citizens mean civic 
clean-up campaigns and work for better towns. And so this work 
that starts in a garden grows and spreads in each community, taking 
in conservation, protection of wild life—both plant and animal— 
supervision of highways, parks, and playgrounds, and even living 
Christmas trees! To coordinate the many helpful national organi¬ 
zations behind these splendid activities is the special privilege of the 
National Garden Association. 
Cherishing Nature’s Treasure 
HE Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund sends us this message 
for each of you: 
The wild fife of to-day is not wholly ours to dispose of as we please. It has 
been given to us in trust, we must account for it to those who come after us and 
audit our records. 
This concerns each of us and—as long as the supply lasts—copies 
of an interesting booklet, “The End of Game and Sport in America,” 
by William T. Hornaday, will be mailed without charge to any one 
sending in their request to this society, at the New York Zoological 
Park, New York City. 
Another organization is working to save the giant trees of California 
from the lumberman’s axe. This is the SAVE THE REDWOODS 
LEAGUE and if you wish to help in this work of such national im¬ 
portance write to Robert G. Sproul, University of California, Berkeley, 
California, who will gladly send you full information. 
And also from Berkeley comes another interesting story. To cover 
up the burned areas (due to the big fire at Berkeley) the Garden Club 
of Alameda County chose—as their share of Garden Week—to assist 
in replanting all the lovely gardens destroyed. The Club acted as a 
clearing-house to put those who could give seeds and plants in touch 
with those who needed them. Truly, there is no boundary to a 
garden nor to its civic worth and work! 
The Garden’s Contribution to Christmas and the Children 
A T YOUR SERVICE is the slogan of the Playground and Recreation 
Association of America with headquarters at 315 Fourth Avenue, 
New York City. Through correspondence and leaflets, this society 
is prepared to furnish general information on school gardens, children’s 
gardens, etc., and will send you without cost a booklet listing their 
helpful publications. The following, as well as many others, are free: 
What One Neighborhood Center Did I he City and the Child 
Training Young America for Citizenship Rural Recreation 
Literally this association is at your service and may be able to help 
your city do what has been done in Oshkosh where a Boys’ and Girls’ 
Garden Club of 445 members has been founded. 
Each activity leads us right back to a garden. And we would men¬ 
tion here the earnest work of Mrs. Warder I. Higgins, President of the 
Rocky Mountain Garden Club. Not only is she successfully striving 
to make the whole state of Montana one of garden beauty but she is 
also endeavoring to get the cooperation of every town in the country 
in planting community Christmas trees. What this would mean in 
the way of conservation and community interest is beyond con¬ 
jecture. 
And from Springfield, Mass., comes the report of one Garden Week 
activity that should be followed by every city or town wherever 
possible. Here enough money was solicited to enable a truly lovely 
garden to be made and maintained around the Home for Crippled 
Children! If National Garden Week has accomplished no more than 
this one thing, surely it has not been started in vain. 
And have you any flowers to spare for the city’s sick and helpless 
and crippled—you, who commute to New York or Chicago or Phila¬ 
delphia? Then why not take them in and leave them in the big rail¬ 
road terminals at the booths conducted by the National Plant, Flower, 
and Fruit Guild? Why not help this society that is working to make 
the wealth of the country meet the needs of the city? And why not 
urge your neighbor to take his flowers in or take them in for him? Of 
course, it means a little planning, a little time, but if you could follow 
one of your Roses to the hand of some sick little child, you would 
begrudge neither time nor trouble! 
Bulletins on Request from the National Garden Association: 
Programs for Garden Clubs, Constitutions, and By-laws 
Insects Injurious to Ornamental Greenhouse Plants 
Diseases and Insects of Garden Vegetables 
Rural Recreation and Planning 
A Day at Jackson’s Mill (booklet for West Virginia only and one that every 
West Virginia club should have) 
National Garden Week for 1925 to be observed April i9th-25th 
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