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NOTES OF THE GARDEN CLUBS 
T HE Garden Club of Michigan, 
the motto of which is “To gar¬ 
den finely,” was founded in 
1911 by Mrs. Francis King, of Alma, 
Mrs. Edward Lowe of Grand Rapids, 
and Mrs. Benjamin S. Warren of 
Grosse Pointe Farms. Mrs. Francis 
King was the President for several 
years. The President for 1921 is Mrs. 
Edward H. Parker. 
The membership in the club is lim¬ 
ited to 100 women who take “an ac¬ 
tive interest in horticulture, or who 
own, or give personal care to gardens” 
and the following places are repre¬ 
sented: Alma, Ann Arbor, Bay City, 
Birmingham, Detroit, East betroit, 
Farmington, Grand Rapids, Grosse 
Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe Isle and 
Grosse Pointe Park, Lapeer, and Ox¬ 
ford. There is one honorary member, 
Mrs. E. Chandler Walker, of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. Meetings, including 
shows and field days, are held once 
each month in the year, and in 1921 
there was also a spring picnic at Mrs. 
Sarmiento’s. 
The government of the club is vested 
in its officers, including a librarian, 
together with a Board of Gardeners, 
and the chairmen of the committees, 
namely, of Tulip Show, Daffodil Show, 
Publicity and Slides. 
Among the topics and lecturers for 
the current year are Shrubs, by Profes¬ 
sor Buttrick; Japanese Flower Ar¬ 
rangement, by a student to be selected 
by Dean Jordan, of the University of 
Michigan, and The Arnold Arboretum, 
with slides from direct autochrome 
photographs, by Loring Underwood of 
Boston, who was requested by Profes¬ 
sor Sargent of the Arboretum to as¬ 
semble the data. 
Five guests may be invited to each 
meeting, cards being sent by the Sec¬ 
retary in the order of application, and 
the hostess has the privilege of also 
asking five guests. Besides lectures, the 
program for the year comprises an Ex¬ 
perience Meeting, a Daffodil Show at the 
Country Club, and a Tulip Show in a 
rented hall, both in May; also a Visiting 
Day (for viewing gardens) at Grosse 
Pointe, with subscription lunch at the 
Country Club, another day at Birming¬ 
ham, with lunch at the Bloomfield Hunt 
Club, as guests of a group of club 
members. In June Mrs. John S. New¬ 
berry was hostess for a supper on the 
lawn. 
A book, “The Pronunciation of Plant 
Names,” was published by the Club sev¬ 
eral years ago. Mrs. Benjamin S. 
Warren and Mrs. Frederick P. Ander¬ 
son have written book-reviews and ar¬ 
ticles for magazines, and Mrs. Francis 
King is the well-known author of “The 
Well Considered Garden,” articles for 
magazines and lectures, and is reported 
to be preparing a book on the Or¬ 
ganizing of Garden Clubs. Gardens 
have been designed professionally by 
members in Illinois and Michigan. 
The most valuable achievement of 
the Garden Club of Michigan, in addi¬ 
tion to stimulating the interest in gar¬ 
dening, was to start the work of beau¬ 
tifying the roadsides, for which the 
State Legislature now appropriates an 
annual amount for the planting of trees 
and shrubs along the highways. The 
most important plan for the year is 
to plant and mark five trees in the 
Michigan Central Park, in memory of 
relatives of members of the Club who 
died in the Great War. 
T HE Garden Club of New Ca¬ 
naan, Conn., was organized in 
1909. Its President is Miss Myra 
Valentine. There are 160 active and 
four honorary members, men and 
women, who meet every month from 
May to October, inclusive, and have 
also a mid-winter meeting. The mem¬ 
bership is drawn from Belle Haven, 
Bridgeport, Brush Ridge, Darien, Fair- 
field, Glenbrook, Greens Farms, Green¬ 
wich, New Canaan, Noroton, Norwalk 
and East Norwalk, Saugatuck and 
Westport. A Year Book is printed, 
and in the one for 1918, 1919 and 1920 
combined, the following topics and 
speakers appear: Garden Values, by 
Miss Lilian C. Alderson, Garden De¬ 
signer; My Rock Gardens, by Mrs. 
William H. Harris; Wild Flowers of 
Connecticut, with slides, by Mr. Nor¬ 
man Taylor; Work of the American 
Committee for Devastated France, by 
Mrs. Valentine Schuyler; and at an 
open Meeting in the Town Hall Mrs. 
John Wood Stewart, President of the 
National Plant, Flower and Fruit 
Guild, told of its work and appealed 
for co-operation. Also, Miss Ellen 
Eddy Shaw of the Educational De¬ 
partment of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Gardens, spoke of the Development 
of Interest in gardening among chil¬ 
dren. 
One meeting was devoted to hearing 
papers by four presidents from neigh¬ 
boring Garden Clubs. Two field days 
were held, one at Stamford and Ro- 
wayton, and the other at Rye. There 
is an Annual Flower Show held in the 
Town Hall and some flower of honor 
is selected each year for which special 
prizes are awarded, in addition to those 
for the regular classes. In 1919 the 
dahlia was chosen, there being twenty 
classes for this alone, and the exhibit 
of Mrs. A. M. Gerdes was highly 
praised by the judges, Mr. Henry 
Wilde, President of the Stamford Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, and Mr. Whiton, 
President of the Greenwich Horticul¬ 
tural Society. In 1920 the rose was the 
special flower honored. Last year a 
few classes at the show were open to 
outside competition, and this year all 
classes will be open to every one. 
At the mid-winter meeting, 1921, 
slides of members’ gardens were shown, 
twenty photographs of which were re¬ 
produced in color and included the 
gardens of Mrs. Ernest Lee Conant, 
Mrs. Frederick Howard, Mrs. Lewis 
L. Laphem, Mrs. Arnold Schlaet, and 
Miss Katherine Willcox. An Her¬ 
barium, illustrated, of over 200 of the 
native flowers of Connecticut, has been 
made by Mrs. William H. Cary, who 
is making a study of the Simples of 
that State. The Garden Club of New 
Canaan has contributed money, etc., 
through the National Plant, Flower 
and Fruit Guild, towards the support 
of children’s gardens, and has sent the 
proceeds from sales of seedlings to the 
work at St. Quentin. 
T HE Garden Club of Summit, N. 
J., was organized in 1916, and 
the President is Miss Kate 
Romers. There is a membership lim¬ 
ited to 30 women, meeting every two 
weeks, each month, from May to No¬ 
vember, excepting in August. Among 
the lecturers in 1920 were Mr. Leonard 
Barron of Garden City, N. Y., and Mr. 
Richard Rothe of Glenside, Penna. 
The latter spoke on “Rock Gardens” 
at Mrs. John R. Todd’s, who was then 
President of the Club, and at both of 
these meetings members of the Short 
Hills and Morristown Garden Clubs 
were guests. This year a Slide Com¬ 
mittee has been formed, and at one 
meeting there was an exhibition of 
views of the club’s gardens. 
Included in the activities of the club 
are the planting of the Hospital 
Grounds, and of Memorial Trees, also 
the care of the landscape and road¬ 
sides by campaigning against unsightly 
sign-boards and untidy picnic parties. 
There is at least one Flower Show, the 
Chrysanthemum Show in October last 
being held at the home of Mrs. J. W. 
Cromwell. 
Ellen P. Cunningham. 
