70 
House & G ar dei I 
Hardware Should be 
Dignified and Secure 
W HEN building a home hard¬ 
ware seems such a small item 
that one is prone to give it little 
consideration, whereas it should 
be given considerable thought. So 
choose wisely. Decide on Sargent 
Hardware. 
Sargent Hardware possesses a 
charm that will reflect credit to 
your taste, and lend dignity and 
refinement to your home. At the 
same time its built-in quality and 
smoothness of operation will al¬ 
ways prove an economy in the end. 
Your architect will find in 
Sargent Hardware just the pattern 
to harmonize with the architectural 
style of the building. 
We have prepared a book showing 
the many tasteful patterns created by 
the Sargent designers. Send for one 
and go over it with your architect. 
SARGENT & COMPANY 
Hardware Manufacturers 
31 Water Street New Haven, Conn. 
Sargent Day and Night Latch 
TN your present home, store or 
A office, you need the extra 
security given by Sargent Day 
and Night Latches. They should 
be on the front door, cellar 
door, back door, and on out 
buildings. Made extra strong 
and sturdy to resist entrance of 
the lawless. 
SARG E N T 
ft- L O CJ5 __S AND HARD W A R E 
Notes of the Garden Clubs 
(Continued from page 68) 
working on the four acres under culti¬ 
vation, while assisting fourteen farmers. 
One day fourteen girls planted 840 to¬ 
mato plants, the land having been pre¬ 
pared for them, and another day, six 
girls and two men picked up from the 
field and threw into wagons twenty-six 
two-horse wagon loads of stones. As¬ 
sistance was also given by the girls in 
the gardening in the Pittsburgh ceme¬ 
teries. A second unit under supervision 
of two members, Miss Ethel Christy 
and Miss Winifred Jones, was con¬ 
ducted at Sewickley, the volunteers liv¬ 
ing at home and serving on call, in 
hoeing, weeding, picking small fruits, 
etc. 
At the suggestion of Mrs. Leonard 
Barron, the Club decided to give first- 
aid to farmers’ wives in conserving food 
by providing a motor truck with com¬ 
plete canning equipment, including a 
three-burner oil stove. This truck car¬ 
ried six or seven volunteer workers and 
an instructor, visiting farms on request, 
and also assisted at the North Side 
Protestant Asylum Farm, and the Sla¬ 
vonic Evangelical Orphan Home, and 
demonstrated at the Imperial Fair. The 
County Commissioners provided main¬ 
tenance fund for the truck. 
In 1919 the Club granted fifteen 
scholarships to girls for the summer 
course at the Woman’s Horticultural 
School at Ambler, Pa. This year the 
chief work is with schools in the county, 
offering prizes to children for raising 
and canning best vegetables, and aiding 
the farmers as much as possible with 
their various “direct market” enter¬ 
prises. 
T HE Garden Club of Warrenton, 
Virginia, whose President is Mrs. 
Samuel A. Appleton, and which was 
founded in 1907, was the first garden 
club in Virginia, and a charter member 
of the Garden Club of America and of 
the Federation of Virginia Garden 
Clubs. This Federation was organized 
May, 1920, by the James River Garden 
Club, Richmond, Va. There are thirty 
women members, meeting weekly dur¬ 
ing the spring and early summer, later 
on at greater intervals, and all working 
in their gardens. Programs are informal 
and plants exchanged. The constant 
aim is to extend love and knowledge of 
gardening in Virginia, and all work is 
strictly horticultural. Plants are sold 
at the Woman’s Exchange. An annual 
flower show is held at the Town Hall 
in June. 
T HE Garden Club of Ridgefield, 
Connecticut, Mrs. George P. Inger- 
soll, President, was founded in 1914, 
and has a membership recently in¬ 
creased to eighty-five. For five months 
in the year during the gardening sea¬ 
son, the Club meets bi-monthly, with 
exhibitions of flowers, fruit and vege¬ 
tables. Lectures are arranged for or 
papers are read by members. A show, 
free to the public, is given in the Town 
Hall in September, every member 
pledged to make an entry. Special new 
classes in 1920 are for photographs of 
gardens, miniature gardens, and bou¬ 
quets, old and new. A cup is offered 
toi be won by the best vegetable exhibit 
for three consecutive years. 
Twelve members have designed and 
made gardens, mostly of the formal 
type, with arbors, pergolas, decorative 
sculpture, bird baths, sun-dials, etc. 
Three members have hybridized, Mrs. 
Boutelier having grown a new peony. 
One member, a young girl, after taking 
the Cornell agricultural course, runs a 
farm successfully. 
During two years of the war, the 
Club maintained a camp for forty-eight 
convalescent soldiers. This year special 
attention is paid to 126 school gardens, 
and great emphasis is laid on the better¬ 
ing of fruit trees in the locality. A 
committee of the Club raises its funds 
up to $500, employing a man to keep 
the streets neat, and the Club plans 
making a park in the center of the 
village with seats and a band stand for 
weekly concerts. Mrs. A. Barton Hep¬ 
burn is a former president. 
T HE Garden Club of Shaker Lakes, 
Cleveland, Ohio, President Mrs. 
James H. Rogers, founded 1915, has 
fifty active and three honorary mem¬ 
bers. Meetings are held monthly 
throughout the year, December excepted. 
The majority of the members work in 
their gardens and write papers for the 
meetings. The chief accomplishment of 
the Club has been the uniting of the 
women of Shaker Lakes village, and 
beautifying the park surrounding Shaker 
Lakes. Mrs. James Rogers has super¬ 
intended the planting for the Home for 
the Blind, and Mrs. K. F. Gill, the 
planting for the Maxfield Country Club. 
The contents of the Club’s treasury were 
turned over to the Women’s Land 
Army. A bird feeding board and beau¬ 
tiful carved stone bird bath have been 
presented by the Club to the Shaker 
Heights school. 
T HE Garden Club of Plainfield, New 
Jersey, Mrs. Frank Otis Herring, 
President, organized 1913, numbers 
seventy-five members, and meets every 
two weeks from April to November, 
when plants are offered for exchange. 
A dahlia show is held by members in 
the autumn. 
A request from the Raritan Arsenal for 
flower beds for their camp brought an 
enthusiastic response from the Club. 
Besides flower beds laid out surrounding 
the Administration Building, a garden 
was planted between the hospital build¬ 
ings, and a summer-house was built. 
The President, Mrs. Herring, motored 
many miles soliciting shrubs and plants, 
receiving $2,000 worth, which were car¬ 
ried to the camp in army motor trucks. 
The Arsenal now has assumed the care 
of the place. 
T HE Garden Club of Norfolk, Vir¬ 
ginia, Mrs. L. W. Spratling, Presi¬ 
dent, was founded in 1915. It is lim¬ 
ited to fifty active members, and in¬ 
cludes men among the associates. Meet¬ 
ings are held every month except from 
June to October. The program is 
formed of papers by members, and a 
question box. A flower show is held 
in May. 
Seeds saved from members’ gardens 
are put up in envelopes marked with 
the Club name and sold among the 
members. Planting of more vegetables 
and fruits is still urged to reduce the 
H. C. L. War work included planting 
of window boxes at the Navy Y. M. 
C. A. and intensive campaigning for 
war gardens and canning of food, and 
a committee supplied the Naval Hos¬ 
pital with flowers and sent seed to 
devastated France and Belgium. The 
Club has planted the grounds of the 
Protestant Hospital with shrubs, etc., 
and has laid out the planting for sev¬ 
eral city parks. 
In the public schools manual training 
classes have been encouraged to make 
bird houses, members of the Club going 
out with Boy Scouts to see them prop¬ 
erly placed. Largely as the result of 
efforts on the part of the Club, the 
State Legislature adopted dogwood as 
the State flower, and the Norfolk Gar¬ 
den Club before each Arbor Day cir¬ 
cularizes the public schools, pleading 
for the perpetuation of the dogwood 
by planting it in the school yards and 
public places. 
Ellen P. Cunningham. 
