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Notes of the Garden Club 
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1915. There are fifty-seven members, 
women, who almost all work in their 
gardens. Meetings are-held at irregular 
intervals throughout the year excepting 
in July and August, and there are ex¬ 
changes of plants and sales of flowers. 
Last spring exhibits were held of a 
large variety of daffodils and irises. 
Garden produce and flowers were sold 
last spring, first on the curb, and later 
from a market stall—a large sum being 
netted for European relief. A separate 
flower sale was also conducted. Mem¬ 
bers prepare papers for many of the 
meetings and Mrs. M. C. Patterson, 
Mrs. Frank Duke, and Mrs. Wheel¬ 
wright have written for one of the 
leading garden magazines. Lectures at 
meetings were on “Practical Gardening” 
lay Mrs. Edmund, State Garden special¬ 
ist, and Mr. Duncan Lee. 
This year experiments have been 
made in forcing French endive in a 
cellar, and in fall planting of Chinese 
Celestial radishes. In 1920 members 
planned a city lot in a contest judged 
by Mrs. Charles F. Gillett, landscape 
architect, who had given the Club in¬ 
struction in mapping and planting. The 
most important part of the Club’s pro¬ 
gram for the current year is writing up 
and illustrating “Historic Gardens of 
Virginia”, and last fall, planning and 
planting with a border of two thousand 
plants the grounds of the Children’s 
Free Hospital for Cripples. In 1920, 
the Club has established twenty-five 
Junior Flower Clubs in three public 
schools and distributed more than 500 
packets of seeds and about 2,000 plants, 
1,500 coming from the garden of the 
President. Fifteen dollars is offered in 
prizes to the Junior Clubs. 
So far as the members know, their 
Receipt Book for Conservation of Food, 
published before America went into the' 
War, was the pioneer of such literature 
in America. Other War work of the 
James River Club included help in the 
Victory Loan Drive, a school prize of 
$10 to Richmond School gardens, a $25 
scholarship in the Women’s Land Army 
Training School, at the University of 
Virginia, and responding to an appeal 
from Europe for garden seed, imple¬ 
ments, etc. In the city of Nisch, Ser¬ 
bia, there is a school garden tended by 
little children, known as the James 
River Club, which supports the garden. 
Ellen P. Cunningham. 
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I have purchased a house and am 
making some changes in it. My prob¬ 
lem is the outside. I want it painted in 
a two tone combination and would like 
to have some of your advisers suggest 
harmonious color combinations. I am 
enclosing a photograph. The house has 
now a yellow body and dark brown 
trim. Thanking you in advance for 
any suggestions you can give me, I 
remain,-. 
Answer —An attractive color scheme 
shows a green shingled effect with white 
trim throughout. Stain the roof a golden 
brown, paint gables and body tan, bor¬ 
dering on chocolate, and make the sash 
a deep brown and the porch floors dust 
color. Or you might have the house 
deep yellow with white trim, black 
sash, soft harmonizing green for gables, 
moss green roof and red chimneys. Still 
another arrangement when the lower 
and upper part of the house are dif¬ 
ferent, is to paint the lower story red 
and the upper body gray, the trim in 
either case to be self colored; sash, 
white, roof, natural wood shingles, 
blinds, dark green. 
The following are some color schemes 
for body, trim and sash: 
Pearl gray, pure white, maroon. 
Cream, light brown, dark bottle green. 
Ivory white, pure white, maroon. 
Pure white, dark bottle green, black. 
Medium drab, ivory white, maroon. 
Chocolate brown, pure white, maroon. 
French gray, pure white, maroon. 
Colonial yellow, pure white, white. 
Bronze gray, pure white, maroon. 
Fawn, pure white, maroon. 
Stone color, ivory white, chocolate 
brown. 
Slate, pure white, warm brown. 
Inquiry I am a reader of your very 
interesting magazine and being in need 
of some advice have decided to avail 
myself of your generosity and ask your 
help in the furnishing of my dressing 
room. This room has an eastern ex¬ 
posure and is papered in a very pretty 
and unusual but cold gray paper. This 
paper has a somewhat bluish cast and 
makes the room cold and uninviting. 
The furniture is dull mahogany with 
a little carving. 
My chief problems are curtains and 
draperies—the color that will best har¬ 
monize with the paper. Whether a day 
bed or chaise longue would add t t; 
room and what kind of lighting fi:, 
would be the most effective. 
And one other matter. Can yo 
vise me where to purchase two p; > , . d 
wooden chairs for the living rooi C 
Answer—I would sugegst that you 
have rose-colored taffeta hangings over 
the palest of pink silk gauze sash cur- 
tains. These will counteract the effect 
of the gray paper and will give a 
charming light in the room. 
I think a chaise longue would be the 
most appropriate in this room and I 
would advise you to have it upholstered 
in a gray and rose cretonne and piled 
with cushions covered with pink taf¬ 
feta. 
In the matter of lighting fixtures, 
plain dull silver would harmonize with 
the paper and be effective and in keep¬ 
ing. I would also suggest a powder 
blue pottery jar for a lamp, with a 
pale rose-colored shade. 
I am enclosing a list of firms that 
have a large variety of lighting fixtures 
and also some manufacturers of painted 
furniture. 
