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House & Garden 
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Notes of the Garden Clubs 
(Continued from page 58) 
practical talks on soil, fertilizers, prepa¬ 
ration and use of insecticides, culture 
of small fruits, preservation of apple 
and elm trees. Opportunity for ques¬ 
tioning the speakers was especially valu¬ 
able. Local papers reported the ad¬ 
dresses, enlarging the audience. The 
Club started school children in making 
bird houses, for which prizes were 
offered. The Camden Club has a won¬ 
derful region for roses and dahlias. 
Field days are held, and the flower show 
is staged in September. 
T HE Garden Club of Williamsport, 
Pa., founded 1916, has 160 active 
and 40 associate members, including 
men and women. A new by-law per¬ 
mits also non-resident members. Meet¬ 
ings are held at private houses, from 
early February to early November. 
This year’s program is printed in most 
artistic form with illustrations and quo¬ 
tations. Topics of lectures include the 
financial side of gardening, cultivation 
of special flowers, “Flower Arrange¬ 
ment” by Prof. E. A. White, of the 
Department of Floriculture, Cornell 
University; Historic, Italian and Aus¬ 
tralian Gardens, the two last illustrated 
with slides; Table-top Gardens, an 
Outdoor Pageant, a Flower Show, a 
Garden Mart, and finally slides of mem¬ 
bers’ gardens. At the flower mart one 
May, 1,000 Dorothy Perkins’ roses were 
sold in three-quarters of an hour. Five 
hundred shrubs, 100 trees, 600 perennials 
have been sold on one occasion. 
The Club has interested residents in 
beautifying Williamsport. Interest has 
been aroused also in preservation of the 
lovely wild flowers so abundant in this 
region. A war garden was planted, 
contributions sent for re-orcharding 
France, and last year Liberty Bonds 
were bought which partially financed 
the Club’s chief project this year—the 
planting, with some co-operation of 
money and labor from the next town, 
of twelve miles along an important high¬ 
road. Trees, shrubs and vines will be 
planted first, and if the public respects 
the work, smaller plants and bulbs will 
be added later. 
T HE Garden Club of Lawrence, L. I., 
founded 1912, has a membership 
“well over a hundred” open to men 
and women. The president for 1920 
is Mr. Julian Hinckley. The Club is 
formed mostly of summer residents of 
Cedarhurst, Hewlett, Woodmere and 
Lawrence. 
This year’s program includes, besides 
lectures, a tulip, a peony and rose, and 
a chrysanthemum show, as well as one 
general fruit, flower and vegetable show. 
During the war the Club assisted in 
neighborhood war gardens. The Club 
dues support a scholarship at the School 
of Horticulture for Women, Ambler, Pa. 
T HE Garden Club of Ridgewood, 
N. J., formed in 1914, with eight 
members, by Mr. Robert L. Roe, after¬ 
wards president for four years, has now 
300 members, all men, commuters, in a 
town of 8,000 population. This Club 
is said to be the largest of its kind in 
the United States, perhaps in the world. 
Evening meetings, which were held first 
in private houses, are now held in a 
public hall. Co-operative buying of 
seeds and other garden supplies was 
found to be so satisfactory that it has 
been extended to necessities for house¬ 
hold use. 
Shows are held in June and Septem¬ 
ber, including vegetables, fruit, flowers 
and classes of artistic arrangement. 
General standards of gardening have 
been imp.oved and advice on gardening 
published in the local papers. The real 
estate men declare the Club is the most 
valuable asset the town possesses. Each 
of a number of members grows over a 
hundred varieties of dahlias, and one 
has 250 varieties. Hohokus, adjoining 
Ridgewood, has also a garden club of 
men, recently founded. The program 
for 1920 is confined to definite flower 
and shrub topics, beautifying Hohokus, 
arrangement of cut flowers, a garden 
night, field day, and a social night. 
T HE Garden Club of Morristown, 
founded in 1912, has a membership 
of sixty, all women, which may be in¬ 
creased to 125. Meetings are held twice 
a month, from April to November. 
There are monthly exhibits of flowers, 
for which prizes are given. The topics 
for meetings this spring include iris 
growing and hybridizing, scientific grass 
growing, birds and insects, Italian gar¬ 
dens, shrubs and hardy plants. Lectures 
are given in the Public Library, ad¬ 
mission by cards issued on application. 
The local papers report the lectures. 
The Club has given the Library books 
on gardening and vases which they keep 
filled with flowers. The Garden Club 
co-operates in the care of the grounds 
of the Community Club, and is affili¬ 
ated with the Wildflower Association, 
interesting school children in the preser¬ 
vation of wild flowers. 
T HE Park Garden Club of Flushing, 
Long Island, organized in 1914, 
has 100 active, 85 associate and 16 
non-resident members, including men 
and women. Bi-monthly meetings, 
usually with lectures, are held through¬ 
out the year; also there are two field 
days, two flower shows, and informal 
flower exhibits. This June the Club 
in cooperation with the newest of the 
special flower societies, the American 
Iris Society, arranged a garden party 
and iris exhibit at the residence of the 
Club’s President, Mrs. John W. Paris. 
In 1919, a quarterly bulletin was started, 
publishing the Club’s program and 
records, also items of general garden 
interest. Some of the members are 
hybridizing, others write for publication. 
At the International Flower Show in 
New York, members of the Club made 
19 entries, and received 13 prizes and 3 
commendations. The Club has done 
public tree planting, aided in organizing 
other clubs, has cooperated with the 
Ridgewood Garden Club in lighting a 
30-foot living Community Christmas 
tree and is affiliated with the Long 
Island Council of Women’s Clubs, Amer¬ 
ican Rose, and American Dahlia So¬ 
cieties. 
T HE Garden Club of Lenox, organ¬ 
ized in 1911, has a membership of 93 
men and women, many of them owners 
of the finest places in Stockbridge, Great 
Barrington, Pittsfield, Lenox, etc. Mr. 
Thomas Shields Clarke, the sculptor and 
painter, is an ex-president. Meetings 
are held fortnightly from July to Octo¬ 
ber. Original work is done by the 
members in designing miniature gar¬ 
dens and in writing papers. In 1918 
the Club subscribed $1,000 to support a 
Unit of the Women’s Land Army, has. 
endeavored to protect the native flora 
and forests of the Berkshire Hills, and 
awards prizes to school children of the 
country for the best bird-houses. 
T HE Garden Club of Dutchess and 
Orange Counties, New York, includes 
men and women. The President is Dr. 
E. L. Partridge, of New York. Meet¬ 
ings are held during the summer, and 
an occasional winter lecture is arranged 
in New York. Members contribute- 
many of the papers for the Club pro¬ 
gram. This Club was organized by the 
late Mrs. Fairchild, formerly Mrs. Ely,, 
author of “A Woman’s Hardy Garden.”' 
Mrs. Verplanck, who lectures before gar¬ 
den dubs, and Miss Mary R. Jay, 
Garden Architect, are other members. 
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