Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . now our active member-ship, limited to one hundred, is closed. Associate membership is un-limited. The object of the club is to help those who love gardens tomake them more beautiful; to stimulate interest in cooperative garden-ing; to aid in the protection of native plants and birds; to encouragecivic planting and to study in all its aspects the fine art of gardening. Quoting from one whose life has been spent among gardens andgarden interest
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . now our active member-ship, limited to one hundred, is closed. Associate membership is un-limited. The object of the club is to help those who love gardens tomake them more beautiful; to stimulate interest in cooperative garden-ing; to aid in the protection of native plants and birds; to encouragecivic planting and to study in all its aspects the fine art of gardening. Quoting from one whose life has been spent among gardens andgarden interests, a garden is as much the expression of an idea as apainting, a symphony, or a poem. The club gave the first Flower show ever held in Flushing onSeptember 27, 1915, in the Public Library. The interest and attendanceexceeded expectations. A Rose Show in June and a Dahlia Show in September were the fea-tures of 1916. In Febru-ary, 1917, the GardenClub, realizing the seri-ousness of the food situa-tion and the necessityof reducing the highcost of living, decidedto devote its time andenergy to directing theHome Garden were made. with the College of Agri-culture at Farmingdale,Long Island, for a courseof study in PracticalGardening for the on the differentsubjects were sent us toteach this course. When the National
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