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Notes of the Garden Clubs 
(Continued jrom page 60) 
T HE Gardeners of Montgomery and 
Delaware Counties, Pa., are 40 wo¬ 
men, all doing personal garden work, 
who meet sixteen times a year. The 
Club operated a Farm Unit during the 
war, and has cooperated with other 
clubs in organizing Flower Shows and 
Community Gardens, etc., which later 
became self-managing. 
T HE Garden Club of Hartford, Con¬ 
necticut, organized in 1916, has a 
limited membership of 35 women who 
all work in their gardens. Monthly 
meetings are held excepting July and 
August. Members exchange plants and 
write many papers for their meetings. 
The Club has planted the grounds of the 
Connecticut Institute for the Blind, and 
also of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. 
This year the Club plans to visit the 
Arnold Arboretum. 
T HE Garden Club of Chestnut Hill, 
Massachusetts, organized in 1915, is 
composed of 105 men and women. Mr. 
R. M. Saltonstall has just retired as 
President. Meetings are held approxi¬ 
mately once a month from November 
to May; also there are field days in the 
Spring, and an annual flower show. 
Mr. E. H. Wilson, of the Arnold 
Arboretum, who has introduced thou¬ 
sands of plants from China into this 
country, is among the eminent men who 
have addressed the Club. Miss Marian 
C. Coffin, landscape architect, spoke in 
April on “Spring Planting.” In May, 
Miss Edna Cutter delivered “A Message 
from the Farm Women.” Many mem¬ 
bers work in their gardens, and some 
have hybridized orchids. The Club es¬ 
tablished a community canning kitchen 
during the war and contributed through 
the Royal Horticultural Society of Eng¬ 
land for the benefit of distressed Bel¬ 
gian horticulturists. Recently the Club 
has assisted in fitting up the dormitories 
of Amherst Agricultural College. 
T HE Rumson (N. J.) Garden Club, 
organized about 1914, has 150 men 
and women members, mostly summer 
residents of seven or eight settlements, 
including Seabright, Rumson, Red Bank, 
Monmouth Beach, Elberon, Oakhurst, 
etc. Gardens thus vary from the walled 
sunken garden of Mrs. Hamilton Fish 
Kean, within 100 feet of the ocean, to 
elaborate plantations in the sheltered in¬ 
land areas. Meetings are held monthly 
from June to November, usually with 
lectures by professionals, but some 
original papers are read by members. 
Mrs. S. A. Broun, author of “Gardens 
to Color and Individual Gardens” and 
who lectures on “Old English Herb 
Gardens,” is a member of the Rumson 
Club. This year besides several field 
days and monthly flower exhibits, there 
will be two flower shows. The Presi¬ 
dent, Mrs. George Ward, Jr., has given 
special attention to the premium list 
which was referred to Professor Nash 
of the New York Botanical Gardens and 
professional gardeners. The Club has 
been helpful with a woman’s cooperative 
training farm, and has especially en¬ 
couraged children’s gardens, in which 
Mrs. Howard Borden, one of the found¬ 
ers of the Club, is particularly inter¬ 
ested. This season there will be a paid 
supervisor and an entertainment for the 
children when the prizes are awarded. 
Among new committees are the Tree¬ 
planting, Lantern Slides (of members’ 
gardens) and the Plants Bargain Com¬ 
mittee. The last is to offer surplus seed¬ 
lings, etc., from the larger places to 
small householders at small prices. 
T HE Garden Club of Albemarle 
County, Virginia, organized in 1911, 
has 50 members, all women, who meet 
monthly. There are plant sales in May 
and September, and an autumn flower 
show. A “Curb Market” was conducted 
during the war. At present the Club is 
engaged in replanting the old Scheie de 
Vere Garden situated on the grounds 
of the University of Virginia, Char¬ 
lottesville, Va. 
T HE Garden Club of Cincinnati, Ohio, 
organized in 1914, has 30 members, 
all women, but includes men in its list of 
associate and honorary members. Meet¬ 
ings are held every month in the year, 
at which there are exhibits of forced 
plants and bulbs as well as outdoor 
grown flowers, fruits and vegetables. 
The opening lecture this year was by 
Mr. Underwood on “New England Gar¬ 
dens.” Mrs. Samuel H. Taft, President 
of the Club, is also regional vice-presi¬ 
dent of the American Iris Society for 
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Michigan. 
Mrs. Taft has created many valuable 
dahlias, some of which she has named 
for her Club members. Mrs. Charles 
Anderson and Mrs. James Perkins have 
also specialized in dahlias, Mr. John 
Wareham in iris, and Mr. Carl H. Krip- 
pendorf in daffodils and lilacs. Miss 
Isabelle Pendleton, another member, is 
a graduate of the Lothrop School of 
Landscape Gardening. By permission of 
the Park Commission, one year the Club 
held a flower fete in Eden Park, selling 
everything connected with gardening, 
from gloves and weeders to bird baths 
and trees. The proceeds were used for 
beautifying the city streets and road¬ 
sides. In 1915 the Club sold 9,000 pink 
rose bushes at cost (10 cents each), the 
school children buying 3,000. In 1916, 
10,000 Dorothy Perkins’ rose bushes 
were sold in three hours, and two weeks 
later, thousands more were bought and 
planted all over Cincinnati. On the 
Wooster Pike the Club has naturalized 
50,000 daffodils, 10,000 iris, and planted 
thousands of flowering shrubs. To quote 
Mrs. Taft, “The Garden Club is directly 
responsible for placing flower boxes in 
the windows of all the business houses 
and shops along the main thorofares.” 
Ellen P. Cuningham. 
