Evening star., 1922-10-22
u. S. GARDEN CLUB
TO CONVENE HERE
Three Hundred Flower Ex-
perts Will Gather in Red
Cross Building.
BOTANISTS WILL SPEAK
Tours of Local Conservatories to Be
Feature of Three-Day
Session.

Three hundred men and women who
| have learned to know and enjoy
flowers and plant life will assemble
in Washington from all sections of
the country tomorrow as delegates to
Club Of America. The first session
will be opened in the American Red
Cross building at s o'clock in the
evening.
The convention will continue
through Wednesday and during it's
sessions some of the best known bot
,nists in the country will address
II and explain the mysteries of plant
ife. The meetings on Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings will be open to
al persons who are interested in the
work the Garden Club is doing.
Monday afternoon the various COM
mittees will hold final meetings to
discuss and complete reports for SUBJ
mission to the convention. The meet
ing that evening is for delegates and
members OF the club only. There will
be discussion on the problems of
the Garden Club. led by Mrs. Francis
To Make Auto Tour.
Tuesday morning the delegates will
leave Garden Club headquarters in
bile tour into Virginia. terminating at
Gunston Hall, on the Potomac. The
first stop will be the government ex-
pertinent station Of the Department
of Agriculture. At Gunston Hall the
delegates will be received by Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Hertle and a picnic lunch
will be served on the lawn. Inspec-
ton of the remarkable rose gardens.
where hundreds Of bushes have been
cultivated to the height of floral per-
fection. win follow Immediately.
After leaving Gunston Hall the
party will stop for a few minutes at
historic Pohick Church. and then pro-
ceed to Mount Vernon. where
wreath will first be placed on the
tomb of George Washington. A tree
the Garden Club of America Through
The courtesy of the regents of Mount
Vernon the plant will be q seeding
taken from the old white ash which
Gen. Washington planted himself
near the garden. The party will next
visit Alexandra. visiting among other
places Christ Church.
Tuesday evening the convention Will
convene a. the United States National
Museum. The speakers Will be Charles
Moore, chairman of the Commission
on Fine Arts, and James L. Greenleaf.
a member of the same body. They
will discuss Improving Washington,
and will illustrate their lecture with
a number of lantern slides.
From that meeting the delegates
will go to the Smithsonian Institu-
ttion, where they will be received by
Mrs. Charles .. Walcott There they
will have the privilege Of a special
showing of Mrs. Walcotts paintings
of wild flowers. Arrangements for
this feature were made by the Car
den Clubs wild flower committee. of
which Mrs. Francis Farwell of Chi
cago is chairman.
Visit to White House.
At o'clock Wednesday morning
the club will visit chrysanthemum
show and the rose gardens OF the
Department of Agriculture. AT noon
they will visit the White House for
an inspection Of the we'll kept gar
dens and grounds A buffet luncn-
con will be served at Rauscher's.
after which the visitors will be taken
on a tour of, Washington's parks and
gardens :.under the personal leader
ship of Mr.. Moore.
The final session of the convention
will be held in the auditorium of the
Department of the Interior Wednes-
day evening. Among the speakers
will be scientific experts from the
Department of Agriculture. Imme-
diately preceding the addresses the
Washington committee will present a
fantasy. written by Mrs. Minnigerode
Andrews especially for the Garden Club.
entitled THE Voice of the Wild Flow
erS,"