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House & Garden 
You Love Flowers— 
not only during a part of the 
year, but the year round. If any¬ 
thing, their brightness is more ef' 
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kingdom, except the evergreen, is 
denuded and brown. 
There is life, you know, in the 
odor of growing things, and there 
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of pleasure. 
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Notes of the Garden Clubs 
(Continued from page 90) 
T HE Dolly Madison Garden Club of 
Virginia, organized 1919, Mrs. Jo¬ 
seph G. Walker, President, draws to¬ 
gether twenty-four women scattered 
through Albemarle, Orange, Madison 
and Culpepper Counties. The name of 
the Club was chosen because Dolly 
Madison’s home, Montpelier, with its 
horseshoe-garden, copied from the 
House of Representatives, is now owned 
by one of the members of the Club, 
Mrs. W. Du Pont, and is a central 
point of the membership. Mrs. Walk¬ 
er’s home, Woodberry Forest, was also 
originally part of the Madison Estate. 
The Club meets monthly, November to 
May, and original papers are contrib¬ 
uted by the members, one of whom, 
Mrs. Henry Holladay, of Red Rock, 
Rapidan, has written for publication 
and also received a prize for designing 
a garden. Prizes for vegetables have 
been offered the Orange County Fair. 
It is planned to establish in the spring 
of 1921, a sale of seedling flowers and 
vegetables, and to advance gardening 
in the locality by introducing groups of 
new seeds for experiment, also encour¬ 
aging competitions in the growing of 
vegetables and flowers. 
T HE Kansas City (Mo.) Amateur 
Flower Growers’ Association, or¬ 
ganized in 1916, includes ISO men and 
women. Mrs. Massie Holmes, the 
founder, is President. The Association 
arranges two flower shows a year, with 
the purpose of encouraging the cultiva¬ 
tion of flowers in every home in the 
city. Mrs. Holmes published a small 
garden-primer several years ago. 
In 1920, as a result of a series of 
questionnaires sent to members of the 
Association, she compiled and published 
for sale a flower garden guide. This 
contains special information based on 
local experience wh.ch is necessary, ow¬ 
ing to the climate and conditions which 
made many planting tables and garden 
books inapplicable to Kansas City. 
The Guide’s foreword says, “Never be 
satisfied until the flowers suited to your 
locality are growing in it.” Cultural 
instructions are given and a list of 
plants which grow without watering, 
and of plants proven to thrive in this 
section of Missouri. It is found that 
perennials are better adapted than an¬ 
nuals to the irregularities of the climate. 
The term “amateur” in relation to 
the Association is applied to anyone not 
making the selling of flowers his sole 
means of support, but who is allowed 
to sell garden surplus. Topeka, Kan¬ 
sas, has been inspired to organize an 
Association similar to that of Kansas 
City. 
T HE North Shore Garden Club 
(Mass.), organized 1915, Mrs. S. V. 
R. Crosby, President, has thirty-five 
members (men have just been voted 
eligible) and meets bi-monthly from 
June to September. Original papers by 
members are read at some of the meet¬ 
ings. Through the New England 
Branch of the Woman’s National Farm 
and Garden Association, the North 
Shore Club has given a scholarship to 
the Horticultural School for Women at 
Ambler, Pennsylvania. This year the 
annual meeting of the Garden Club of 
America, the last week in June, was 
held under the auspices of the North 
Shore Club. The program of motor 
rides and entertainment was extensive 
and generously hospitable, including a 
visit to the Arnold Arboretum, the 
North Shore horticultural show at Man¬ 
chester, drives to some of the finest 
gardens in Manchester, West Newbury 
and Eastern Point, Gloucester, Pride’s 
Crossing, etc., as well as to the old 
houses and gardens of Danvers, Salem, 
Nahant, etc. The visiting representa¬ 
tives of garden clubs were entertained 
at dinners, luncheons or teas by Mrs. 
Crosby, Mrs. Crane, Mrs. Mosley and 
Mrs. Lane. 
T HE Garden Club of Rochester, 
N. Y., organized 1912, is limited to 
seventy-five active and twenty-five as¬ 
sociate members. Mrs. George C. Buell 
is President. Meetings are held month¬ 
ly, November through March, and bi¬ 
monthly, April through October. Usu¬ 
ally papers by members are read, but 
when there are paid lecturers, the pub¬ 
lic may attend by paying fifty cents 
admission, though any member may 
bring a guest, and the hostess invites 
as many persons as she wishes. 
The Club exchanges plants among 
its members, and twice a year they 
contribute flowers and plants for sales 
open to the public, when tea is served. 
Funds are given to civic organizations, 
and during the war Victory bonds were 
bought, back-yard gardens maintained, 
and since October, 1912, two fatherless 
French children have been supported. 
In Rochester’s beautiful Highland Park, 
the Club has planted a “poets’ garden”, 
to which have been added stone 
benches, a sun-dial, and bird bath, the 
whole forming a popular resort for 
visitors. Last Christmas an attractive 
bulletin was printed. The Club has a 
librarian well supplied with helpful in¬ 
formation. 
T HE Amateur Gardeners of Balti¬ 
more, organized 1908, is formed of 
forty-seven women. Miss D. L. Mur¬ 
doch is President. From September to 
June 15th meetings are held, for which 
members prepare papers, and they have 
had a garden-planning competition. 
During the War a member loaned a 
city lot to the Club where it grew 
vegetable seedlings, which were used in 
school gardens, vacant lots, or by per¬ 
sons applying through the Women’s 
Civic League. Also during the War, in 
response to an appeal from the U. S. 
officer in charge of the Military Hospi¬ 
tal at Fort McHenry, the Club devel¬ 
oped the grounds most successfully, 
Mrs. Louis E. Shipman patriotically 
giving her services to make the plan 
for the several acres. The cost of 
drafting was paid by the Club. In ad¬ 
dition to this, a flower guild was con¬ 
ducted at Fort McHenry, other Clubs 
in the vicinity uniting in contribution 
of flowers and plants. 
In May, 1920, the Women’s Civic 
League held a flower market, at the 
foot of the Washington Monument, and 
the Amateur Gardeners ran a stall, 
greatly increasing the receipts of the 
occasion. In June, 1920, a field day 
was devoted to visiting, by motor, three 
old Manors, the most distant of which 
was twenty-five miles from Baltimore. 
The Manors were Doughregan (Charles 
Carroll of Carrolton); the Folly Quar¬ 
ters, built originally for a daughter of 
this same Charles Carroll, and now 
owned by Mr. Van Lear Black; and a 
third Manor owned by W. Bladen 
Loundes, Esq. 
T HE Garden Society of New Or¬ 
leans, organized 1918, includes 
about four hundred men and women. 
The President is Professor Reginald S. 
Cocks, of the Department of Botany 
of the Tulane University of Louisiana, 
where bi-monthly meetings are held 
from October to May. Members are 
asked to bring to each meeting speci¬ 
mens of some selected flower, which are 
criticised and judged, usually a profes¬ 
sional being present to answer questions. 
Talks are given by garden-owners 
whose relation of their successes and 
failures furnishes a basis for the even¬ 
ing’s discussion. 
A little hybridizing has been accom- 
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