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henVride andPracticability agree 
only a (Sled Dresser Will do! 
Too often, in matters concerning the kitchen, 
one’s finer sense of beauty and pride is disturbed 
by the more pressing demands of efficiency and 
practicability. And, in as many instances, the 
orderliness of arrangement is sacrificed in an effort 
to make the kitchen a beautiful as well as a useful 
place. 
But where Pride and Practicability meet—only a 
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Side Unit, and on the right by our Broom Closet. The 
utility of this arrangement can readily he imagined. 
But to appreciate its surpassing beauty, one must actu¬ 
ally see WHITE HOUSE Steel kitchen equipment. 
The drawers are frictionless and fitted with glass knobs; 
compartments are roomy and pest-proof;—the finish is white 
enamel, baked on! 
WHITE HOUSE Steel Dressers answer every question that can 
be asked by the woman of practical mind,—and, as you will see, 
—they satisfy that innate desire for beauty and dignity which, 
nowadays, extends even to the kitchen. 
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Perfume Garden” will be studied—with 
a roll call of “Fragrant Flowers”, “The 
Jasmine” will be treated by Mrs. Fred 
King, and “Night Scented Flowers” by 
Mrs. Millar Wilson. A question box 
on the topic of the day is in charge of 
the hostess of each meeting. On pay¬ 
ment of fifty cents for each guest ten 
persons may be invited to each meet¬ 
ing by the hostess or the president. 
The object of the Garden Club of 
Florida, includes the “protection of wild 
flowers and native plants” and the en¬ 
couragement of civic planting. With 
the co-operation of the Press, the club’s 
propaganda against the destruction of 
the native plant life, especially the 
Jasmine and Holly at Christmas, car¬ 
ried a state-wide message, and efforts 
are being made to secure protective 
legislation. An article in House & 
Garden on the interest of a Sing Sing 
prisoner in gardening suggested the idea 
of sending a large box of plants and 
dozens of bulbs donated by members, 
to beautify the State Prison Farm at 
Raiford, Florida, where the gift was 
much appreciated. Owing to the charac¬ 
ter of the summers, Secretary Mrs. Jon¬ 
athon Yerkes states that the chief suc¬ 
cess of the garden club is with annuals. 
T HE Garden Club of Scarborough 
and Ossining, N. Y., is composed of 
17 women who have met intimately 
without formal organization, since 1918. 
Every member works in her garden and 
in some cases does all the work. There 
is no “business” and are no dues. The 
Club was started by Mrs. H. S. Slaker 
and Mrs. Edwin L. Todd, and meetings 
are held usually fortnightly, though in 
summer they may be weekly, when 
gardens are always carefully inspected. 
The plans for the current year include 
a “Talk on Flower Arrangement”, and 
a “Discussion on Garden Literature, 
both Prose and Verse” to be lead by a 
member, Mrs. A. S. Kimball, and a 
“Talk on Perennials” by Professor 
H. M. Mills, formerly of the State Col¬ 
lege, Penn., who addressed the Club 
in 1922 on “Annuals”. Besides papers 
by members, this year’s program in¬ 
cludes “Lessons in Grafting”, by one 
of the club. At a meeting held in Octo¬ 
ber, 1922, every one was asked to tell 
about a “Garden Seen During the 
Summer”. These accounts were illus¬ 
trated with photographs and post cards, 
and included examples of gardens in 
America, Canada, Bermuda, Arizona, 
Europe, and South America. In the 
Fall the club holds a meeting to select 
bulbs and in the Spring to discuss cata¬ 
logues. Several of the members belong 
to the Hudson River Garden Club and 
report on lectures, flower shows, etc. to 
the Scarborough group. The chief ac¬ 
complishment has been preservation of 
informality in garden intercourse and 
the development of their own gardens. 
Mrs. Slaker rescued from rubbish a 
ravine adjoining her home, which she 
has transformed into a combined dem¬ 
onstration of naturalized planting, with 
masses of monarda didyma, columbines, 
hesperis, and other garden flowers, on 
the banks, and about forty varieties of 
wild flowers. Forsythia suspensa, 
white dogwood and deutzia help clothe 
the banks, while along the bed of a 
dry brook are ferns, daffodils, wild 
cowslips, and violets. Mrs. Todd has 
developed a rock-garden using phlox 
divaricata, pink phlox subulata, and 
plumbago larpentae, myosotis semper- 
tlcrens, and other plants. A pool with 
gold fish and water hyacinths is com¬ 
bined with the planting, clumps of iris 
being placed along the trail of water 
trickling from the pool. A formal gar¬ 
den only 33' square was worked out 
as almost part of the house, by Mrs. 
Phillip Henry, who made a series of 
water color drawings before selecting 
the tulips and other flowers in har¬ 
monizing colors. Great care was used 
to preserve the proper scale of size of 
material used in planting the four 
square central beds with heliotrope, 
alyssum, rose and straw colored dwarf 
phlox drummondi, pansies, tuberoses 
and lemon verbena, with lilium can- 
didum in the middle of the beds. Pastel 
zinnias, in the border surrounding the 
garden, are backed by closely trimmed 
hemlock against the grey stone wall. 
Chrysanthemums are used for the Fall. 
The miniature garden is completed by 
a sunken pool in its center, made of old 
Spanish tiles of clear blue green and the 
four stone benches at the terminus of 
the grass paths leading away from the 
pool towards the border planting. 
T HE Garden Club of Onteora, N. Y. 
of which Mrs. B. A. Haggin is the 
president, was founded in 1914 by Mrs. 
Haggin, Mrs. V. Everett Macy, Mrs. 
Frederick Dwight, Mrs. Edward C. 
Moen and Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. 
Henderson. The eighty members be¬ 
long to three classes—the Amateur 
Gardeners, who pay five dollars dues, 
and the Professional Gardeners and 
Children, who pay dues of one dollar. 
Meetings are held monthly, from June 
to September inclusive, the program 
being composed of addresses by pro¬ 
fessionals. Among those who have lec¬ 
tured before the club are Miss Hilda 
Loines, Dr. Leland O. Howard of 
Washington, Mr. Ludworth, Chief Den¬ 
drologist of the U. S. Forest Service, 
Mr. John Farquhar, Mr. Gillet, the 
Wild Flower Specialist, Mr. Ernest 
Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum, and 
the late Maurice Fuld. Although the 
season is short and there are few gar¬ 
dens, two flower shows a year are held 
at the Inn. Competitions in table 
decoration are arranged at the shows, 
first honors being won for the last 
two years by Mrs. Harold J. Hender¬ 
son. The prize was a wooden bowl 
decorated by Mrs. Jorn W. Alexander 
and containing fruit and vegetables, 
arranged by the artist, Ben Ali Haggin. 
Other prizes of vases and money, are 
donated and awarded by members. 
Miss Abby Bradly of Massachusetts is 
chairman of the committee on exhibi¬ 
tions. During the War much work was 
done with children in the community 
gardens. The most important plan of 
the Garden Club of Onteora is the de¬ 
veloping of the library grounds, of 
which the club was given charge about 
two years ago, into a wild garden in 
honor of Mrs. Candace Wheeler, who 
for many years was an active member 
of the Onteora Club Colony and in¬ 
terested in the Library. The garden 
has been generously designed by Mr. 
Harold A. Caparn, the landscape archi¬ 
tect. The project is to establish a 
sanctuary for the finest native trees, 
shrubs and other plants, which are 
being contributed by friends in various 
parts of the country. Mrs. Haggin 
originated the idea of recording all gifts 
in a book to be called “The Friends of 
the Candace Wheeler Wild Garden”. 
Among the donors are Mrs. Washington 
Connor, Mrs. Howland Russell, Mr. 
and Mrs. David Barron, and Mrs. 
Frederick, Dr. Cormelius and Miss 
Dagmar Rybner. 
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