House & Garden 
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Notes of the Garden Clubs 
(Continued from page 96) 
Clear, clean, drinkable water 
that is actually softer than 
rain, can be had from every 
faucet in your house. 
No tanks or cisterns 
to build, no pumps, 
no motors to buy—just 
a simple, clean, com¬ 
pact apparatus that 
connects anywhere in 
your piping system 
and miraculously 
turns the hardest 
water supply into de¬ 
lightfully soft water. 
There are no chemicals 
added to the water, no muss, 
no bother. 
Permutit is a material that looks something like 
sand and possesses the remarkable property of 
taking all the hardness out of any water that 
passes through it, 
It is stored in a metal shell connected into your 
water supply line and about once a week you 
empty a small amount of common salt in the 
apparatus which regenerates its hardness re¬ 
moving properties. The salt cost does not exceed 
a few cents a day and that is absolutely all the 
running expense there is. 
Permutit has been used for years to remove all 
hardness from the water supply in textile mills, 
dyeing plants, canning factories, hospitals and 
places where exact, dependable results are im¬ 
perative. Thousands are now in daily use, and 
you too can have wonderful, sparkling soft 
water in your home no matter how hard your 
present supply. 
Write us for booklet Soft Water in Every Home. 
Club of America’s Library of Slides. In 
June an exhibition of flower arrange¬ 
ments was held in the Court House, 
open to everyone, a popular vote award¬ 
ing the prizes; and in September, at 
the Flower Show, a special feature was 
the exhibits by school children, to whom 
the club had distributed seeds in sixteen 
districts, and giving prizes for the best 
specimen and collection of vegetables 
and flowers. In October several neigh¬ 
boring Garden Clubs were entertained 
and shown the gardens of the hostess 
club. It is planned to arrange a joint 
flower show, probably in Rye, under the 
auspices of seven Garden Clubs, in June, 
1921. 
A number of the club members have 
written for publication or lectured, 
among them being Mrs. Arthur H. 
Scribner, who is an authority on bees, 
and Miss Delia Marble, who was chair¬ 
man of the Executive Council of the 
Women’s Land Army. The club co¬ 
operates in maintaining the first camp 
of Farmerettes in the country. The 
most important achievement of the dub, 
apart from its horticultural activities, 
was the establishing, during the War, 
of the first community dehydrating 
plant in the East. 
T HE Garden Club of Lookout 
Mountain, Tennessee, of which 
Mrs. T. H. McClure is the President, 
was founded in 1916, and is com¬ 
posed of about SO women, who all work 
in their gardens. Meetings are held once 
a month, and exhibitions are arranged 
at the homes of Club members, some of 
whom have unusually lovely flowers, as 
for instance Mrs. Z. C. Patten, Jr., and 
Mrs. W. M. Lasley. A flower show is 
to be held for the first time this spring, 
and a dahlia show in the autumn. Mrs. 
Francis King has recently addressed the 
club on proposed plans for the future, 
and the chief project contemplated is 
the protecting and the developing of the 
great natural beauty of Lookout 
Mountain, by preventing the placing of 
any advertising billboards on or about 
the mountain and by planting evergreen 
and suitable supplementary shrubs along 
the roadsides, and also by seeing that 
the sidewalks are consistent. 
T HE Garden Club of Southampton, 
L. I., was founded in 1913 by the 
late Mrs. Albert Boardman and Mrs. 
Hoffman. There are 40 members, 
nearly all of whom do practical garden¬ 
ing, and meeting every two weeks 
during the summer season. The Pres¬ 
ident of the club is Mrs. Harry Pelham 
Robbins. The 1920 program was partly 
as follows: 
In June a competition for the flower 
arrangement for a luncheon table; in 
July an experience meeting, at which 
several members read accounts of their 
personal work and its result; and in 
August Miss Marian Coffin, the land¬ 
scape architect, delivered an address. 
Also in August, a garden excursion was 
planned. The Garden Club has aided 
school children in the immediate locality 
to beautify their places. 
T HE Garden Club of Kenilworth, 
Illinois is composed of three groups, 
“The Anchusa,” “The Bergamots,” and 
“The Candytufts”—25 members in all, 
the first chapter (The Anchusa) being 
organized in 1915 and named in honor 
of the nom de plume of Mrs. Viber 
Spicer who acts as President of all the 
members, when required, and keeps 
them in touch with the Garden Club of 
Illinois and the Mid-West Branch of 
the Woman’s National Farm and Gar¬ 
den Association, to which she belongs. 
The chapters meet separately, fortnight¬ 
ly, from May to October, but sometimes 
unite. There is an exchange of plants 
and these are also donated to sales ar¬ 
ranged by other clubs. 
The members take special interest in 
visiting each other’s gardens, socially. 
The Kenilworth Club co-operated with 
the Chicago Chapter of the Wild Flower 
Preservation Society of America’s Loan 
Exhibit, held at the Art Institute of 
Chicago, in December, 1920, and Jan¬ 
uary 1921. 
Besides special articles on gardening, 
Mrs. Spicer has published two volumes 
of verse. One, entitled “The Skokie,” 
contains a number of poems relating to 
gardens, and is named for the vast 
marshy districts northwest of Chicago. 
Mrs. Spicer’s garden is only 100'xl50', 
but is very artistic, planted three deep 
and is constantly in bloom. 
T HE Garden Club of Oak Park and 
River Forest, Illinois, of which the 
President is Mrs. Harry L. Clute, was 
organized in 1917, and includes both 
men and women in its membership of 
200. Meetings are held once a month, 
usually in the afternoon, but sometimes 
in the evenings. The dues have been 
one dollar, but were increased Jan. 1st 
to two dollars. A guest fee of twenty- 
five cents is also paid, and to supple¬ 
ment the funds of the treasury, sales of 
flowers have been held in stores on Sat¬ 
urday afternoon, and in addition there 
is every fall a sale of winter bouquets 
made of dried flowers artistically ar¬ 
ranged. Mrs. W. R. Corlett, one of the 
members, has written and lectured on 
the possibilities of using dried material 
decoratively. 
The program for the 1920 meetings 
included, besides the more familiar hor¬ 
ticultural subjects, Flower Legends and 
Music, Garden Poetry, and Flowers of 
Field and Forest. One evening meeting 
was devoted to a lecture on “The Forest 
Preserve” by Mrs. J. C. Bley, illustrated 
with a stereopticon by Mr. Rosenfeld, 
and on another evening “Happy Com- I 
binations and a Few Cultural Direc¬ 
tions” was the subject treated by Mrs. 
James H. Heald (a member), who illus¬ 
trated it with stereopticon views of the 
member gardens. Mrs. Russell Tyson, 
President of the Mid-west Branch of 
the Woman’s National Farm and Gar¬ 
den Association, in December talked on 
Japanese Gardens she had visited, show¬ 
ing views she had taken of them her¬ 
self. 
On field days excursions have been 
conducted to “The Dunes,” blue with 
lupins in May; to the extensive estate 
of Mr. W. C. Egan, rich in rare shrubs 
and with thousands of beautiful ferns; 
to the highly developed grounds and. 
gardens of residents along the Lake 
Shore, such as at Mr. Harold and Cyrus 
McCormick’s, where there is a lovely 
stairway of rocks, beautifully planted 
with rock plants, leading from the top 
of the bluff down to the water. At 
Mrs. Walter S. Brewster’s place an after¬ 
noon was enjoyed in studying the series 
of separate seasonal gardens unified in 
the entire landscape design. The Club’s 
chief plan for the current year is to 
establish a bird sanctuary in an oak. 
grove between the villages of Oak Park 
and River Forest. The grove is owned 
by the Forest Preserve commissioners 
of the County who will co-operate with 
advice, etc., concerning the contemplated 
planting. 
T HE Garden Club of Harford, Md., 
of which Mrs. Bertram M. Stump 
is President, was organized in 1914 and 
is composed of 30 members, meeting 
fortnightly in summer, sometimes in¬ 
cluding men as guests. Practical work 
is done by all the members of the club, 
which has done much to increase in¬ 
terest in gardening and garden planting. 
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