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Notes of the Garden Clubs 
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nearly a hundred years, was addressed 
by Professor de Waegenere, who spoke 
on the importance of school gardens. 
Miss Rose and Miss Smith of the De¬ 
partment of Music, Hamilton College, 
played the piano and violin. Carna¬ 
tions, Japanese peach blossoms, lilacs, 
tulips, narcissus and English cowslips 
were shown. At the close of the meet¬ 
ing the flowers were auctioned off. 
Professors from the University of 
Kentucky have addressed the Club on 
chemistry of soils, landscape gardening, 
horticultural topics and practical gar¬ 
dening. The Club membership dues are 
$1.00, the treasury receiving aid from 
the sale of surplus flowers from mem¬ 
bers’ gardens, sold every Saturday 
morning from 6 to 11. The receipts 
amounted to $500 in 1920. The public 
benefits by buying lovely flowers at low 
prices. 
During the war the Club distributed 
20,000 tomato and 40,000 cabbage 
plants, thousands of packets of seed, 
hundreds of seedlings, bulbs, hardy 
plants, shrubs and roses to the city 
school community gardens, orphans’ 
and old ladies’ homes. In addition, the 
grounds of the Blue Grass Tuberculosis 
Sanitorium were planted with trees and 
shrubs, money was sent to rest rooms 
of four schools for delicate children, 
and other charities were carried on. 
Also twelve sets of garden tools were 
sent to the women of devastated France. 
The most important plan was to plant 
trees along the Dixie Highway from 
Lexington to the county line at Fay¬ 
ette. 
T HE Garden Club of Easthampton, 
Long Island, Mrs. William A. Lock- 
wood, President, was founded in 1914. 
To become one of the fifty members, 
the qualifications necessary are, “Per¬ 
sonal interest in horticulture and sum¬ 
mer residence at Easthampton”. There 
are meetings every two weeks from 
June to October, members reading origi¬ 
nal papers or hearing lectures by pro¬ 
fessionals on such subjects as bees, roses, 
growing flowers for exhibition, color, 
flower arrangement, mistakes in the 
garden, getting back to peace, or stories 
of the flowers, the last by H. G. Faulk¬ 
ner. A yearly bulletin is printed giving 
places of meetings, subjects of lectures 
and lists for entries for exhibitions. 
Flowers are shown at each meeting, and 
prizes awarded. In war time there were 
no paid speakers, and the annual flower 
show was given for the benefit of the 
Red Cross. Among the members of the 
Club are Mrs. John E. Berwind, Mrs. 
Donoho, whose iris was painted by 
Childe Hassam in the “Water Garden”, 
and Mrs. Robert C. Hill, of the Bulletin 
of the Garden Club of America, who 
designed her own wall garden on the 
dunes. 
T HE Garden Club of New Rochelle, 
New York, Mrs. Henry D. Winans, 
President, was organized in 1911, and 
is comprised of 113 men and women, 
about two-thirds of whom serve the 
Club in some way. There are numer¬ 
ous committees, including one on show 
visiting. Also a librarian, and a list 
of member specialists to whom one may 
apply for information on iris, rock gar¬ 
dens, bulbs, shrubs and trees, etc. Mr. 
William Currie is the authority on roses. 
Lantern slides, postcard size, are to be 
made for an evening meeting in the 
winter. 
Meetings are held monthly at homes 
of members, refreshments being served. 
Field days are arranged on specific sub¬ 
jects, viz.: at Bronx Park, New York, 
to view trees, with Dr. Murrill of the 
Botanical Gardens; at Chester J. Hunt’s, 
i Little Falls, N. J., in tulip time, and on 
another day to study rock gardens. 
There are two flower shows, June and 
September, offering classes in fruit, 
vegetables, flowers and table decora¬ 
tions. The judges for the last show 
were the presidents of the Rye and 
Larchmont Garden Clubs, a professional 
nurseryman and a garden consultant. 
The Club began in January, 1920, to 
publish a quarterly bulletin, The Better 
Garden, edited by Mrs. Wheeler H. 
Peckham, a former president. It in¬ 
cludes addresses of members, programs 
and reports of meetings, announcement 
of courses of lectures on gardening at 
the Brooklyn and New York Botanical 
Gardens, timely articles by members, 
poems, and items of special interest. 
The Club is in touch with the Royal 
Horticultural and New York Horticul¬ 
tural Societies, and the American Mu¬ 
seum of Natural History. Mrs. Peck- 
ham has specialized extensively in daf¬ 
fodils and other bulbs, and Mrs. Lucius 
W. Hitchcock in rock gardens and iris. 
Some of the members write for publi¬ 
cation and talk to other garden clubs. 
The program for 1920 began with plans 
for work, taking up in order lists of 
best vegetable seeds, models of cold 
frames, a competitive showing of gar¬ 
den costumes, perennials, Japanese 
flower arrangement, etc. Vegetable 
plants and other assistance were given 
war gardens, and a sale of flowers and 
garden articles was held for the benefit 
of the Red Cross. The New Rochelle 
Club aids in sending a girl to Cornell, 
offers prizes to children winning the 
most ribbons in gardening, and has 
established a rose test garden under the 
supervision of the Superintendent of 
Parks. 
T HE Garden Club of Twenty, Balti¬ 
more, Maryland, whose President is 
Mrs. W. Irving Keyser, was organized 
in 1914. The members meet weekly 
during the flowering season, and month¬ 
ly in winter, exhibiting flowers and ex¬ 
changing plants. Information is col¬ 
lected on garden pests and their reme¬ 
dies, and other interesting data con¬ 
nected with horticulture. The most im¬ 
portant plan the past season was judg¬ 
ing gardens, the aim being to keep 
them up to high standards. Funds are 
distributed to various city organizations. 
T HE Garden Club of Allegheny 
County, Pennsylvania, founded 1914, 
Mrs. Henry Rea, President, includes ap¬ 
proximately 130 men and women, resi¬ 
dent members, whose initiation fee is 
$15, dues $10; and also a few non¬ 
resident and honorary members. In the 
last class are Mrs. Henry C. Frick and 
her daughter. 
Meetings are held monthly through 
the greater part of the year, the host¬ 
esses having the privilege of inviting ten 
guests. Lectures by experts are ar¬ 
ranged for. For example, at the meet¬ 
ing at Mrs. Hailman’s studio, Darwin 
tulips were displayed and Dr. O. E. 
Jennings, Professor of Botany in the 
University of Pittsburgh and Curator oi 
Botany in the Carnegie Museum, lec¬ 
tured on the structure of tulips, flower 
and bulb. Or again, “Some Trees and 
Shrubs for our Gardens”, by Mr. Wil¬ 
liam Falconer. Pilgrimages are ar¬ 
ranged, as to Sewickley to view the gar¬ 
dens of Mrs. William Thaw, Mrs. Henry 
Rea, Mrs. Halsey Williams and Mrs. 
Harry Oliver, with tea served afterward 
at the Country Club. 
In 1918 the Club selected a farm and 
established the Glenshaw Unit of the 
Women’s Land Army, of which Dr. anc 
Mrs. Jennings took charge. During 
that season forty-seven young women 
volunteered, living on the farm anc 
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