Tke National G arden Association 
President: Leonard Barron, F. R. H. S. 
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 National Farm and Garden Association. 
ITH the opening of school in September, there comes an 
inlvkfni opportunity of surpassing importance to every teacher, 
school board, and garden club. This is the establish¬ 
ment of school gardens and the fall planting of trees, 
shrubs, and bulbs. The study, throughout the entire school 
year, of nature subjects can be made one of the most valuable 
phases of school instruction. This past year the city of Detroit 
did especially good work along this line, aided by Mrs. Mary K. 
Grosvenor of the Department of Recreations and the School 
Garden Department of the Twentieth Century Club. 
This nature work in our schools—this broader gardening—the 
training of the child mind, is so important a matter that each 
garden club or women’s club should be actively interested. 
The easiest way to help is to provide material for study. It 
has been suggested by a nature teacher of New York City 
that different clubs in near-by towns “adopt” some grade in 
any one school and attend to supplying this class with material 
and specimens. 
Each branch of that fine organization, The National Plant, 
Flower and Fruit Guild, interests itself in this garden work in the 
schools. Write to The National Garden Association and your 
letter will be sent to this society that will help you in so many 
ways to help others. 
Especially may schools and clubs join hands in planting trees 
this fall. Every boy or girl who plants a tree may become a 
member of the American Tree Association if they will but for¬ 
ward their names to us. These names 
will be inscribed on a national honor 
roll to be read when the centennial of 
Arbor Day arrives. 
There are three very helpful and 
practical booklets that the National 
Garden Association will be glad to se¬ 
cure for any one interested in school 
gardens or tree planting: 
The School Garden 
Trees for Town and Country Streets 
Planting and Care of Street Trees 
T HE interest in gardening, with the 
consequent demand for lecture ex¬ 
hibits, is increasing so rapidly all over 
the country, that we are glad to an¬ 
nounce that the General Federation of 
Women’s Clubs has ready for distribu¬ 
tion to the clubwomen in the federation 
the following lectures: 
Art in the Garden —a lecture with 60 slides, 
mostly colored, cost $2.50 and insured postage to 
next point. 
Types of American Gardens —a lecture with 50 
slides, dealing especially with artistic gardens 
possible to club women; cost $2.50 and insured 
postage to next point. 
Any requests for these will be for¬ 
warded at once by The National Gar¬ 
den Association. 
I have made a garden, 
With tiny seeds laid low. 
I saw them pierce the heavy sod 
And grow, and grow, and grow. 
And from the rainbow miracle 
Of their slow blossoming, 
I learned a truth for solace 
And wise remembering. 
I shall no longer scorn at all 
Small kindly lives or deeds, 
Or any barren plot of life 
That harbors tiny seeds 
Of beauty and of loveliness, 
For 0, I know, I know, 
Since I have made a garden, 
Flow loveliness can grow! 
Hilda Morris 
S O MANY communities have come to realize that their town 
is no more beautiful than the poorest of its back streets 
that The National Garden Association is being besieged with 
requests for aid and suggestions. These we are glad to give, and 
we hope that each and every civic organization will write us of 
their work and plans. Also do we hope that they will write fully 
of work already done so that we may tell of it to aid others. 
(See Prize Announcement, page 16) This community work is 
one of the healthiest signs of the days and may be made very 
beautiful and inspiring. Des Moines, Iowa, is planting Christ¬ 
mas trees on lawns with a two-fold object, yes, a three-fold. 
For such planting not only beautifies the homes and makes of 
Christmas a real community festival, but it is also preventing 
the wholesale destruction of the forest Pines and Spruces. 
Cincinnati makes the fall planting of Daffodils in public places a 
community celebration. 
“ Plant a Peony this Fall” is being blazoned forth with electric 
lights from the highest point on the city hall in Winnipeg, 
Canada. Already the slogan is producing results—hundreds of 
citizens have ordered their quota of roots. Canada is trying to 
beautify her cities. The west, especially, is endeavoring to dis¬ 
guise its newness with flowers. Vancouver has adopted the 
General McArthur Rose for its civic flower, and the entire 
city has determined that not only the loveliest residences and 
public buildings shall be covered with Roses but that the smallest 
house and most congested district shall be abloom another year. 
South Williamstown, Mass., has its 
roadside plantings. In very truth the 
| Spirit of Gardening is not to be confined 
by walls or hedges, but is wandering 
down the highways and byways and 
along the city streets to make our coun¬ 
try a more beautiful place to live in. 
The National Garden Association 
will gladly help with each and every 
phase of this work and will send to any 
one requesting them the following help¬ 
ful bulletins: 
“HOW LOVELINESS CAN 
GROW” 1 
Autumn in the Flower Garden (To residents 
of New York only). 
Fall Gardens and Planting Table (To residents 
of Louisiana only). 
Trees and Shrubs of New Mexico (To dwellers 
in New Mexico only). 
About House Plants (For Ohio residents only). 
Home Beautification, with List t>f Trees and 
Shrubs for Foundation Planting in Alabama. 
For all subscribers: 
Celery Growing 
Strawberry Culture in the South 
Home Storage of Vegetables 
Insecticides for Fruits 
Home Gardening in the South 
How to Attract the Birds 
Insects Injurious to Deciduous Trees 
Tree Surgery 
Plans for Rural Community Buildings 
Horticultural Exhibitions and Garden Competi¬ 
tions 
Constitution and By-laws for Garden Clubs 
Programmes for Garden Clubs 
If any one requests booklets and these fail to arrive, kindly notify us at once 
as we wish to give our “garden neighbors” the promptest possible service 
43 
