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House & Garden 
Fills Through 
the Spout 
T his is only one of the unusual features of 
West Bend Aluminum Tea Kettles. Rising 
steam and splashing water, which frequently 
cause scalded hands, are entirely avoided by fill- 
mg the kettle through the spout. Projecting ears 
hold the handle free from the kettle surface, 
preventing its becoming hot. 
I he West Bend Tea Kettle exemplifies the 
high standard of workmanship, originality of 
design, and beauty of finish which discriminating 
housewives appreciate. Like the 200 other items 
in the West Bend line of aluminum ware, the 
tea kettle is stamped from a single sheet of 99% 
pure aluminum without seams or joints. It is 
built especially heavy and strong where strength 
is needed. West Bend welding is guaranteed 
permanently sound. West Bend spouts will not 
break off, even under hardest usage. 
The “Sun Ray’' inside finish, which facilitates clean¬ 
ing, is an original West Bend feature. It gives aluminum 
war e the brilliant lustre of sterling silver. 
If join dealer does not carry M'est Bend ware 
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West Bend aluminum ware bears the star of approval 
ot Good Housekeeping Institute, signifying that 
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lirst class and all that its manufacturers claim for it. 
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Notes of the Garden Clubs 
(Continued from page 72) 
private residences. Members exchange 
plants and seeds through an exchange 
committee. 
The most important enterprise of the 
Club in 1920 was a competition for 
dahlias raised from seed. Besides this, 
school gardens have been organized and 
interest was stimulated in beautifying 
the county. 
by a committee representing all the 
charitable organizations in Middletown. 
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HE Garden Club of Greenwich, 
Connecticut, whose newly elected 
president is Mrs. Luke Vincent Lock- 
wood, was organized in, 1913, and has 
60 members, women whose eligibility 
for the Club depends upon their work¬ 
ing in the garden. There are monthly 
meetings from April to November, with 
extra field days on which sometimes as 
many as four or five gardens are visited. 
The last annual Flower Show was held 
at the home of Mrs. E. Dimon Bird. 
At a recent meeting of representatives 
of Garden Clubs of Greenwich, Bedford, 
Larchmont, New Canaan, New Rochelle, 
Rye and Ridgefield, it was decided to 
hold a joint show to be called the 
Flower Show of Westchester and Fair- 
field Counties, in June, 1921. Following 
a general suggestion of the Garden Club 
of America, a number of members’ gar¬ 
dens have been listed with the secre¬ 
taries who issue cards of admission to 
visitors from affiliated clubs. 
The Garden Club of Greenwich has 
received so much public appreciation of 
its planting of the grounds of the local 
hospital that a committee will endeavor 
whenever possible to extend planting to 
the grounds of other institutions, the 
next one to be undertaken being the 
Y. W. C. A. One of the members, Mrs. 
Frederick Gotthold, has had a diversified 
garden including one of the earliest 
water gardens and also a rock garden. 
Another member is Miss Lilian C. Alder- 
son, a garden designer. 
T HE Garden Club of Somerset Hills, 
New Jersey, whose president is 
Mrs. Francis G. Lloyd, was organized 
in, 1914. The membership is composed 
of 70 women, a number of whom work 
in their gardens, and who meet twice 
a month from May to November, ar¬ 
ranging exhibits of flowers and veg¬ 
etables, and occasionally a lecture by a 
professional is provided. In June, 1920, 
the members joined with the clubs of 
Summit, Morristown, and Short Hills, 
m holding a Rose Show at the latter 
place. One member, Mrs. S. S. Wheeler, 
has hybridized amaryllis, and another 
member, Mrs. William A. Hutcheson 
(Martha Brooks Brown), is a profes¬ 
sional lecturer and designer of gardens. 
The Club supervises village planting in 
three places, including the grounds of 
the Bernardsville Bank, and has planted 
a simple garden at the Clinton Reforma¬ 
tory for Women. 
T HE Garden Club of Middletown, 
Connecticut, was organized in 1916, 
and the president is Mrs. Robert Hern¬ 
don Fife. The number of members is 
limited to 30 women, most of whom are 
practical gardeners. Two meetings are 
held in May and two in June, and the 
rest of the year monthly. The program 
this year has included papers on the 
gardens of New Orleans, California and 
Hawaii. 
The president (Sarah Gildersleeve 
Fife) is the author of “A Diary of Flow- 
ers . The Club provides garden books, 
and catalogs of nurseries and seedsmen 
for a shelf in the local public library, 
the grounds of which it has planted with 
shrubs and flowers, with the double pur¬ 
pose of beautifying this place and of 
demonstrating the possibilities of main¬ 
taining a small garden in a town. The 
chief achievement of the Club has been 
the important part it takes in the An¬ 
nual Garden Fete, which is conducted 
T HE Garden Club of Norristown, 
Pa., was organized in 1913, and has 
a membership of nearly 200, open to 
men and women. The president is Mrs. 
Randolph Wright, and meetings are 
held in the Regar Museum every month 
in the year. The dues were originally 
only 25 cents but have recently been 
increased to if 1.00. 
A printed program is issued in which 
are included monthly reviews of maga¬ 
zines on gardening and forestry, as well 
as papers by the members. Occasionally 
professional specialists address the Club. 
The subject for this year’s program is 
Trees. There are two Field Days, or 
Pilgrimages, each year, when visits have 
been paid to the best nurseries, Bartram's 
Garden, the Rose Garden of George C. 
Thomas (now removed to California), 
the Botanical Gardens of the University 
of Pennsylvania, to Dr. George Wood¬ 
ward’s to see his Wall Garden, to Edwin 
Gribbel Dreer’s, to see his collection of 
all the varieties of trees adapted to the 
climate and conditions of that section 
of the country, and to a rare natural 
habitat of the closed and fringed gen¬ 
tians. 
Spring and Fall Flower Shows are 
held, the last one having been in the 
Ersine Club, and are open to the public. 
The exhibits of flowers are sold and the 
proceeds applied to the purchase of 
prizes, which included a sprayer, labels, 
stakes, books, a garden magazine sub¬ 
scription, flower containers, etc. Prizes 
are offered to the High School pupils for 
the best poster to be used to advertise 
the shows. At the Annual Plant Ex¬ 
change, the townspeople are invited to 
cooperate by bringing plants to ex¬ 
change. 
Most of the members have small city 
gardens, some not over 15' or 20' x 50' 
or 60'. The garden of Miss Bertha 
Harry, founder of the Club, is of this 
type, yet it contains roses, and nearly 
fifty varieties of perennials and annuals 
from which not only the house was con- 
stantly supplied with flowers, but in one 
season nearly 200 bouquets were sent to 
the local hospital as well as weekly flow¬ 
ers to a chapel and some to a Philadel¬ 
phia hospital. 
The Club sends flowers each week of 
the growing season to the Flower Mis¬ 
sion of Philadelphia, and, at Christmas, 
plants to shut-ins. The periodicals taken 
by the Club are passed on to the library. 
During the war vacant lot gardening 
was started for all interested and sales 
of flowers were held in the Public 
Square, the receipts from which were 
contributed to the War Chest, Red Cross, 
I he Camp Garden Fund, and an Arm. 
nian and Servian orphan were “adopted’'; 
also an orchard was planted in Frar 
and boxes of plants were sent by me 
bers to Camp Dix and the Philadelp 
Navy Yard. Recently two memo 
trees have been planted on the High 
School grounds in honor of Norristown 
heroes. 
T^HE Garden Club of Essex Fells, 
A N. J., organized October, 1919, is 
composed of thirty-two women who 
meet once a month. Mrs. Condict is 
President. She has done original work 
garden planning, etc. Although such a 
new club, it has already inspired women 
to make gardens for the first time, as 
well as supply older gardeners with 
definite information as to better choice 
of flowers, etc. Mrs. Frank Richards 
Ford, of New York, is especially inter¬ 
ested in securing lecturers for the Club. 
'T'HE James River Garden Club, 
A Richmond, Va., Mrs. Thomas S. 
Wheelwright, President, was organized 
(Continued on page 76) 
