Tryon Garden Club Meeting
For January Held Wednesday
The January meeting of the
Tryon Garden Club was held in
one of the parlors of Oak Hall on
Wednesday, January 1.9th, with its
president, Miss Elizabeth Webster,
presiding and receiving the reports
of the various committee chair
msn. Miss Webster reported that
the February lGth meeting would
be held at the Congregational
church house and would be in
charge of the Conservation Com
mittee, headed by Mrs. Thomas
S. Clark, the' tonic being “Saving
The Hawks”. Colored motion pic
i^?s of local birds will be shown.
Ij^'i's. Clark reported that the
Conservation Committee of the
State Garden Club is endeavoring
to arouse the interest of the various
garden clubs throughout the State
in forming Audubon Home Study
Groups within the confines of their
local Garden Clubs. Upon forming
these clubs, literature on the birds
oi tms region will be sent to each
member. 17 signed up to become
members of this group.
Mrs. Edmund M. Wiley, chair
man of the Program Committee,
thanked tlm members for the 93
gifts and $20 to be usued for the
purchase of books, which they had
brought to the Christmas meeting
for the crippled children in the
North Carolina Orthopedic hospi
tal at Gastonia. Mrs. Wiley and
Miss Genevieve Washburn deliver
jrVtheso gifts to the hospital, at
jch time they were conducted
mrough the institution and had
an onportunity to see at first hand
the fine work which North Caro
lina is doing for the relief of her
disabled and crippled.
Arthur W. Pr bit nail of Seven
Hearths was then introduced and
talked as slides of his rose gardens
in all their glory were being
shown. He named the varieties
as they were shown, told which had
been discarded after trial, which
were the strong growers and
which the most prolific bloomers.
The meeting was then turned into
a discussion group and Mr. Brint
nall answered questions as to the
best wav to prepare a rose bed,
the fertilizing needs, and What he
considered to be the best manner
to mulch, spray and prune roses
in this region.
At the conclusion of the meeting
Miss Clara Edwards of Oak Hall
surprised the club by presenting
them with a bowl of delicious fruit
punch—Club Reporter.
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