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Notes of the Garden Clubs 
(Continued from page 116) 
the Plantadendron, Utica, and on an¬ 
other occasion the club was the guest 
of Mrs. C. S. Luce, at her place in 11- 
ion, New York. Throughout the bloom¬ 
ing season flowers are taken daily to the 
library, forming a “Continuous Exhibit” 
of which the special features have been 
iris, peonies, roses, gladioli, and zinnias. 
The arrangement of the flowers is re¬ 
garded as an important part of the 
exhibits which are cared for by two 
of the librarians. The chief accom¬ 
plishment of the Garden Club of Utica 
in 1922 was the assisting of persons in¬ 
terested in forming other garden clubs. 
The plans for 1923 include a broaden¬ 
ing of the programs, beyond the im¬ 
mediate needs of home gardens, in¬ 
creasing the membership and arranging 
meetings in gardens. 
T HE Blue Ridge Garden Club, 
drawing its members mostly from 
the summer residents of the region be¬ 
tween Hagerstown, Md. and Gettysburg, 
Pa, was founded in 1912, by Mrs. J. 
Appleton Wilson, of Baltimore, her suc¬ 
cessors in office being Mrs. J. S. Wil¬ 
liams, of Richmond, Va, and Miss 
Margaret Ramsey, of Norfolk, Va. Mrs. 
T. S. Creighton is now the President, 
the term of office having been limited 
now to two years. There are 75 active 
and associate members who meet at 
private houses, fortnightly, from the 
end of June to the end of September. 
About half of the programs are pre¬ 
pared by the club members, chiefly on 
horticultural topics, such as “Small 
Fruits”, “Roses”, “Iris”, and also 
“Native Wild Flowers”. This last sub¬ 
ject has been taken from the view¬ 
point of their preservation, by Mrs. 
Edward Burton, the Secretary of the 
Baltimore and Maryland Society for 
their preservation, and the Cultivation 
was treated by Dr. Edgar T. Wherry 
of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
who is Chairman of the District Chap¬ 
ter of the Society for the Wild Flower 
Preservation. Dr. Paul Bartsch, of the 
National Museum, gave a talk on 
“Native Ferns”, and representatives 
from the Mt. Alto Forestry School 
addressed the club on “Fruit Trees, 
their Troubles and Cures”, “Hard and 
Soft Wood Trees”, “Vines”, etc. At one 
meeting large branches of trees were 
used as illustrations. The club has 
planted maples and native fir trees 
along open roadsides and in Rolando 
Park. This park is a woodland tract of 
five acres with rocky hillsides, forming 
a natural rock-garden, and there are 
also springs and a brook. The club has 
developed paths throughout the district 
and has undertaken the care of the park. 
Other work conducted by a committee 
of the club is with the public schools, 
trying to interest the children in the 
natural beauty around them. Funds 
have been raised from a lecture on 
“Hawaii and its Flora,” given by Mr. 
Otto Thielow, and a stereopticon was 
accordingly purchased. A winter resi¬ 
dent member operates this stereopticon 
twice a month in the school, giving 
illustrated lectures on nature study. 
Money for renting the slides is also 
supplied by the club which in the 
Spring will distribute flower seeds to 
the children, at the same time offering 
prizes for the best garden, or speci¬ 
mens of flowers which they may 
produce from the seeds. “Bird Lore”, 
the Audubon Society publication, is 
another contribution of the club to 
the School. A committee of members 
of the garden club was formed several 
years ago to collect flowers and fruit 
for the Maryland State Tuberculosis 
Sanatorium which is not far from the 
summer residents, and work has been 
continued during the winter, as money 
is given to ship hundreds of sweet 
peas, calendulas, carnations, jonquils, 
roses, and spring flowers to the tu¬ 
berculous patients. Many pots of 
pansies and hampers of Christmas 
Greens are also supplied. Under the 
efficient and enthusiastic management 
of Miss Anne Brui the work has 
steadily grown by the aid of non¬ 
members of the club and with the 
generous co-operation of some of the 
large wholesale growers. The flowers 
are taken to the sanatorium once a 
week during the summer and though 
not so often during the winter fruit 
is substituted part of the time. In 
addition to this activity the chief ac¬ 
complishment of the members of the 
club is said to be the “arousing a 
deep interest in developing their own 
grounds, and the hedgeways and parks 
in the vicinity”. There is a special 
committee for compiling data of the 
historic gardens in Pennsylvania and 
Maryland near the club. Horticul¬ 
tural efforts one season took the form 
of different annuals being grown by 
members who would exhibit them at 
a meeting giving their experiences. 
A number of the club have designed 
their. own gardens. One of the most 
important plans for 1923 is interesting 
the native mountain children in the 
preservation of the wild flowers. 
T HE Garden Club of Englewood, 
N. J. whose President is Mrs. Frank 
Chapman, was organized in May, 1921, 
and has 50 active and 2 sustaining 
members, whose dues are five and 
twenty-five dollars respectively, per¬ 
sonal work being expected of the active 
members from which class the sus¬ 
taining membership is drawn. Meet¬ 
ings are held once a month during the 
winter and bi-monthly in summer, 
with a public meeting Spring and Fall, 
at one of which the subject of “The 
Preservation of the Native Trees and 
Flowers of New Jersey” was pre¬ 
sented. In a published article, the 
President, Mrs. Chapman, states that 
morning meetings in the gardens of 
members have been customary, when 
the.program consists of papers written 
by members or of “Talks on Personal 
Experiences”. The club takes box 
luncheons to the home of the hostess 
who may serve a hot or cold drink. 
Upon occasions when trips are arranged 
to more distant special gardens a club 
committee sees that motors for trans¬ 
portation are provided. Mrs. Chapman 
further mentions that she considers it 
as very fortunate that a landscape ar¬ 
chitect was invited to visit and criticise 
the gardens of the members soon after 
the club was organized. A Fall Flower 
Show with “open classes” is held, and 
the exhibits of 1922 were so numerous 
and of such high quality that the value 
of the work done by the club was suc¬ 
cessfully demonstrated to the commu¬ 
nity. It is planned to hold a June 
Flower Show in 1923. One of the mem¬ 
bers, Mrs. Johnson, has won a reputa¬ 
tion in hybridizing Iris. 
' I ’HE Garden Club of Winter Park, 
A Florida, after one year of existence 
as a Garden Committee of the Civics 
Department of the Winter Park “Wo¬ 
men’s Club”, was organized in its pres¬ 
ent form in 1922. The President is Miss 
Grace O. Edwards, and there are 35 
members all doing personal work in 
their gardens. The dues are one dollar. 
From October to June meetings are 
held in the homes of members who have 
conducted informal discussions on their 
own experiences in Florida gardening, 
where planting is done in September or 
October, instead of the Spring. This 
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