The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-03-31
ART IN THE GARDEN
and HOME OUTLINED
Federation of WOmen's Clubs Backs
Program for Beautifying Homes,
Gardens, Cities and Parks.

Endorsed and promoted by the Mon
tana Federated Women's Clubs
through their committee appointed fol
the purpose, a campaign for the beau
tification of the home, the garden, the
cities and the parks of the state, has
been inaugurated. The chairman OF
the committee, Alma M. Higgins, OF
Butte, has nicely explained the plans
in the following letter to the Courier
also inclosing some suggestions as to
the carrying out of the plans.
In order for the club women in a
community to effectively carry out
any extensive plans for city beautify-
ing, they need the cooperation of the
mems civic organizations.
The enclosed reprint from The West
ern Tourist magazine will give you an
idea of the plans outlined by the cart
in the Home and Garden" committee
of the Montana Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs for a state wide move
ment for more beautiful gardens and
for general civic improvement.
We need your assistance, for we
want photographs of city parks, tour
list camps, street trees and flower
gardens for an exhibit to be held at
the Federation meeting at Bozeman
June 18th to 18th. There will also be
shown at this meeting a set of color
ed slides of gardens in Montana, and
the subjects will be selected from the
photographs sent. If arrangements
can be made these slides will also be
exhibited at the picture theatres and
at the state fair at Helena. Will you
not ask for the cooperation of your
local picture theatre managers and
your newspapers in furthering this
work?
One hundred and three Women's
clubs in Montana in almost as many
towns have been asked to have their
towns select a community flower and
urge the general planting of the
same, thereby giving distinction to
each place.
Are you planning to observe Arbor
day this year? Why can there not
be concerted action on the part of
your Commercial club; (the Rotary
and Kiwanis clubs, American Legion,
Boy scouts, in towns where these or
CARNATIONS EXIST and the Women's
club to plant a great number of trees
and shrubs on next Arbor day? Why
not ask the American Legion to plant
a World War Memorial tree ian ever
green) for the soldiers who did not re-
turn? Why not plant a Community
Christmas tree in your Court House
grounds or the city park? Perhaps
of the organizations in your town
will undertake to beautify the grounds
around the Railroad station, while
another would be interested in making
the tourist camp more attractive.
Have you a city park? If not, why
not start one? It has been suggested
that the Boy Scouts be asked to make
window boxes and bird houses and
that prizes be given for the best.
Why not ask your City Council to
appoint a Park Commission for your
town whose duty it should be to en-
courage the planting of street trees,
these to be planted a uniform size
and an equal distance apart. Signs
which mar the beauty of scenery
should be removed. Painting signs on
rocks should be discouraged.
That u further efforts may in a
be harmonized in this par
ticular object, and in other definite
detectives related to it; that we may
report certain things definitely accom-
plished to the Federation meeting in
June, the suggestions following are
offered by your chairman:
l. Organization of Garden Clubs
to encourage neighborhood co-opera-
ton in having entire blocks of attrac-
tive lawns and gardens. Also, to have
two Flower shows annually; one at
peony time, when the iris, larkspur,
hardy peoples, columbine, late tulips
and Towering shrubs are in bloom.
The other exhibit may be held late in
August or in September, when the as
tiers, cosmos, dahlias, sweet peas,
golden glow, marigolds, pansies. and
other ANNALS are in their glory.
2. Collecting enlarged photographs
of attractive Montana gardens, and
negatives from which colored slides
can be made illustrating good ex
amples of garden planting, these to
he shown at the local picture theatres,
at the State Federation meeting. and
at the State Fair at Helena. There
are now available about forty slides of
Butte flower gardens, and twenty
were used to illustrate a lecture on
planning the Home Grounds, one
of the educational features at the
Butte Chamber of Commerce Flower
Show last August.
3. Recommending the selection of
a flower for each city in Montana, and
Urging a general planting of the sarac.
Bozeman is already known the state
over as the %"Sweetpea City,, and Big
Timber as the caster City. Helena
has chosen the Golden Glow. and is
making the Golden Glow Pageant an
annual flower festival. 1t has been
suggested that Butte be the "Pansy
City" The most beautiful pansies in
America are grown there.
4. Securing illustrated lectures
from the art extension service of the
General Federation of women's clubs
on "Art in the Garden" and "Civic