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GCV December 2011 Journal
GCV December 2011 Journal
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VOL LVI, NO. 4, DECEMBER 2011
The Garden Club of Virginia exists to celebrate the beauty of the land, to conserve the gifts of nature and to challenge future generations to build on this heritage.
ON THE COVER... The pomegranate, Punica granatum, is among the plants listed in 1736 by William Byrd II at Westover, and is included in Thomas Jeffersons plant list at Monticello. A winter fruit in the northern hemisphere, it is an ancient symbol of humanitys most fundamental beliefs and desires, fertility and abundance, resurrection and the hope of eternal life. IN THIS ISSUE ...
Restoration Story .......................................... 2 Fellows of the Summer ................................. 5 Want to Feed the Birds? ................................ 6 Daffodil Notes ............................................... 7 53rd GCV Conservation Forum ................... 8 The Mattaponi River Runs Free .................... 9 Think Symposium for Christmas .................. 10 73rd Annual Rose Show .........................12-13 Common Wealth Award ............................. 14 Lily Notes .................................................... 15 Ex Libris ...................................................... 16 Theyre Back! Stink Bugs Have Returned .... 17 Green Spring Gardens ................................. 19 Club Notes .................................................. 19 Club Notes .................................................. 20 Club Notes .................................................. 21 Club Notes .................................................. 22 Contributions .............................................. 24 Statement of Ownership .............................. 25
OTHER REFERENCES...
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ne spring day in 1983, Jane Baber White stepped into the remnants of a garden born and tended by Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer. What had once been a profusion of bloom amid rooms, allees, arbor and pergola had greeted 20th century luminaries: W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson and Marian Anderson. They sheltered at the poets Lynchburg home while traveling during segregation, a time when hotels werent accommodating to African-Americans, not even the intelligentsia. On that spring day, as honeysuckle vines and weeds were choking the surviving Anne and Edward Spencer in the garden roses, peonies, daylilies and English boxwood, with their granddaughters. a collective journey to restoration began. The story is told in Janes new book, Lessons Learned from a Poets Garden. Anne Spencers garden spoke to me from the first moment I saw it, Jane recalls in the book. My life has never been the same since, she told the Journal. Nor, likely, were the lives of members of her club, Hillside Garden Club. They came from old Lynchburg, white and affluent. It had never occurred to me, nor to the other members of the club, that there was an African-American woman on the other side of town who had been an important poet of the Harlem Renaissance, who was a scholar, a librarian, a political activist, and who had a lovely garden, she writes. We just never thought about it. Jane asked for club members help. They spent much of the next decade digging in the gardens dirt, supplementing its plantings with their own, and raising more than $81,000. These ladies did so much, and, the main thing is, they crossed the racial barrier, she told the Journal. They joined ongoing efforts by Anne Spencers family and local supporters to preserve the poets house and its garden cottage, built by husband Edwards hands to be his mates writing sanctuary. Many of her poems celebrate the wonder of being through the plants and creatures she met daily in her garden. She noted their struggles and transcendenceand, thus, mankinds. Mrs. Spencer was born in Henry County and attended school in Lynchburg. There she met and married Edward Spencer, later the citys first parcel postman. She died in 1975 at age 93, having achieved national and international notice, including publication in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (1973). Preservation proponents had succeeded in 1976 in having her 1313 Pierce Street home declared a Virginia Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The group included her son, Chauncey Spencer, an aviator cited in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. It was Mr. Spencer who first showed the garden to Jane, a landscape designer. He asked if she and her business partner, Mina Walker Wood, could help.
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With the assistance of the Hillside Garden Club and preservation proponents, much of Anne Spencers life has been preserved. Restoration of the garden won support from the Garden Club of Virginia through two Common Wealth Awards (1985 and 2009). A 1987 article in American Horticulturist focused national attention on the garden and on Anne Spencer, and in 2008, Garden Conservancy representatives congratulated the Anne Spencer Foundation and Hillside in an assessment requested by Hillside. Jane would go on to restore another historic garden, Lynchburgs Old City Cemetery. She says she wrote about Anne Spencers garden to help other groups interested in restoration. In her book, Jane writes, It is an enormous privilege to be able to work in the same soil Anne Spencer tended. The book brims with old photographs, garden plans, news clippings and even unpublished poems homage to a woman she never met, but came to feel she knew so well.
This small garden is half my world I am nothing to it when all is said, I plant the thorn and kiss the rose, but they will grow when I am dead.
From Anne Spencers poem, Any Wife to a Husband: A Derived Poem.
Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer in her Lynchburg garden With thanks to the Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum for permission to use photos and excerpt from Anne Spencers Any Wife to a Husband: A Derived Poem.
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he Garden Club of Virginia offers two fellowships to graduate students across the country in landscape architecture and historic preservation. Each fall, the GCV Fellowship Committee studies historic landscape properties to select the projects of documentation. These fellowships are paid for with monies from Historic Garden Week. William D. Rieley, landscape architect for the Garden Club of Virginia and former professor in the graduate school of landscape architecture of the University of Virginia, oversees the projects and gives guidance to the young scholars in researching and documenting the landscapes. The purpose of the fellowships is to build a comprehensive record of historic gardens in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Former GCV President Helen Murphy conceived of this program, and it was first implemented in 1996 under the direction of then GCV landscape architect, Rudy J. Favretti. Today, we have two fellowships. The William D. Rieley Fellowship documents landscapes and historic properties publicly held. The Rudy J. Favretti Fellowship documents historic properties that are privately owned. Both create important records of landscapes that could disappear should they be sold or demolished. Applications are made online at our website. The committee calls all the graduate schools in the United States with programs in landscape architecture and historic preservation to alert them to these paid summer internships. We had 22 applications for the summer of 2011. This summer, Emily Peterson, a graduate student in landscape architecture at the University of Virginia, was the Rieley Fellow. She documented an Ellen Biddle Shipman garden at Springsbury in Millwood, Virginia. This once-private residence is now owned by the Casey Tree Foundation in Washington and used as the Casey Tree Farm. Emily visited Cornell University, the main repository for Shipmans drawings, and uncovered heretofore unknown photographs and information on Springsbury. Ashley Allis, a graduate student in Urban and Environmental Planning, with an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture, was the Favretti Fellow. She documented the landscape at the old Western State Hospital in Staunton, now owned by a private foundation that is turning the old buildings into condominiums and a luxury hotel. She uncovered a wealth of historic information and documentation that will be useful in the foundations future plans. Both scholars have given us a great legacy of important information about these historic landscapes. Their finished documentations can be 2011 GCV Fellows Emily Peterson viewed in the archives at www.gcvfellowship.org. and Ashley Allis with Will Rieley.
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Daffodil Notes
ts that time of year again when what you ordered from all those catalogues last June starts to arrive, and eventually youll have to decide where to plant it all. For daffodils, think location, location, location. The first factor to consider: the division of daffodil purchased. The Royal Horticultural Society categorizes daffodils into 13 divisions characterized by the shape of the corona, the number of florets per stem or the position of petals. Generally speaking, the majority of daffodils prefer well-drained soil with plenty of light. All blooms need sunshine during the flowering season and for the following six weeks as the leaves absorb the nutrition from the sunlight, ensuring the following years bloom. Still, some divisions need more summer sun than others, which prefer a bit of cover. Some bulbs can tolerate, or might even need, more water; others will rot at the slightest drop during summer. Lets consider planting requirements from June to September by division, as different divisions have different needs. Divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4. Find a well-drained site where the bulbs can bake in the summer. These divisions like hot sun and dry conditions. Avoid planting under irrigation systems or in pots. Division 5. These need the most drainage of all. Sandy soil is preferable, as they will not tolerate standing in water or being wet during summer. Under a shade tree on the Eastern Shore or in raised beds in direct sun would suit this group well. Division 6. These are the most water-tolerant and may even appreciate wet feet during springtime. In summer, they prefer a cooler, shadier area to escape intense sun. Divisions 7, 8 and 9. These like a bit of shade in summer. A deciduous-shaded hillside that drains well might work perfectly. Take extra care in planning where to plant division 7 and 9 bulbs, as they do not like to be moved once established. Divisions 10 and 11. The bulbocodiums of division 10 are happy wherever a division 1 bulb might be planted, as are division 11 bulbs. (It would be impossible to offer tips for division 12, as its a catch-all category for daffodils that do not fit into any of the other divisions. The same applies to division 13, wild daffodils distinguished solely by their species name.) While these rules are not hard and fast, a bit of consideration can ensure happy, healthy bulbs for years to come.
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53rd GCV Conservation Forum Draws Crowds, Praise and Generous Support
By Jeanette McKittrick Editor, GCV Journal Three Chopt Garden Club n Associated Press reporter sent this tweet from the GCV Conservation Forum in November: big crowd for Garden Club of Virginia forum on uranium mining at U of Richmond. Impressive program, too. Nearly 250 people, including a considerable turn-out by the press, came to hear a remarkable range of speakers debate the pros and cons of uranium mining in Virginia. The event was organized by the GCV Conservation Committee and chaired by Peyton Wells of The Tuckahoe Garden Club. In January, the General Assembly is expected to consider lifting a 30-year moratorium on mining uranium, a radioactive metal which is used to fuel nuclear power plants. The GCV was praised by one speaker as an organization that could lend civil discourse to Hollis Stauber, Peyton Wells, Karen Jones and Kim Nash a potentially rancorous subject. at 53rd GCV Conservation Forum in Richmond. Kim Nash, GCV president, expressed her delight and gratitude to The Robert and Bessie Carter Foundation for its generous grant, underwriting the forum. The quality of public discourse and exchange of information that characterized the day seemed befitting the gift that helped make such a thing possible. Since 2008, the family of Bessie Bocock Carter carries on her deep commitment to conservation in Virginia.
Want to know more about whats afoot in the General Assembly? Join us for Garden Club of Virginia Legislative Day 2012
DATE: TIME: Monday, January 23, 2012 Registration 8:30 AM, Program 9:00 AM
WHERE: Richmond Center Stage, 600 East Grace Street, Richmond, VA 23219 WHAT: Learn about the issues coming before the 2012 General Assembly.
Visit your legislators. Become an informed citizen. Check www.gcvirginia.org for more information
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Take the Leap To Timeless Trends February 27-29, 2012 The Homestead
Guest Speakers Seminars Special Events Vendors
Three-Day Registration: $250 (includes all lectures, two lunches, Monday night cocktails and buffet dinner, and Tuesday night cocktails and banquet) One-Day Registration: $125 (includes lunch) Special Events: Additional fee Room Rate: $165 per night for single occupancy, plus tax. Contact: Elaine Burden, Symposium Chairman (540) 687-6940 elaineburden1@aol.com All GCV members and their guests are welcome.
An additional $82.50 will be charged for each additional adult, plus tax. Suites available upon request.
Ho HoHubs!
The Elizabeth Bradley Kincheloe Stull Award Best Arrangement by a Novice Jennifer Kelly The Garden Club of Alexandria
Inter Club Class 40D Framed Spatial Leesburg Garden Club Inter Club Class 40A Echo Arrangement The Mill Mountain Garden Club - Quad Blue Inter Club Class 40B Creative Line Mass (Blue) The Rappahannock Valley Garden Club
Inter Club Class 40C Creative Abstract (Blue) The Petersburg Garden Club
Class 45 - Designers Choice (Blue), The Virginia Brown Guild Perpetual Award & The Flower Shows Chairmans Cup Matilda Bradshaw, The Mill Mountain Garden Club
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Horticulture Awards
Best Floribunda Europeana Section 1, Class 3 Kathy Watson The Tuckahoe Garden Club
Best Hybrid Tea Spray Gemini Emily V. Barbee The Garden Club of Gloucester
Best Polyantha Spray The Fairy Joyce Moorman The Lynchburg Garden Club
and Hilldrup Transfer & Storage for support of the GCV Flower Shows.
photographs can be viewed at www.gcvirginia.org.
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Lily Notes
elieve it or not, you can propagate the genus lilium by scale, and its easy. The first order of business is to identify the scale. A true lily bulb is similar to a garlic knob, and those cloves are called scales. To get scales to produce mini bulbletsbaby liliestake three steps:
Place the scale in a plastic baggie with some damp peat moss (about one-quarter of a sandwich baggie). Label the baggie. Usually, when I plant bulbs for next year, I pull a couple of scales off a bulb. It wont hurt the plant. If your bulbs are already in the ground, get some more bulbs at the store. Place the baggie in a dark spot for a couple of months. Under the sofa is where I first misplaced my baggies of lily scales. Three to four months later, youll notice some mini-bulblets growing on the scale. Bulblets are usually white, ranging in size from a pimple to a pea. Not all scales produce bulblets, though; sometimes, not a trace of the scale or bulblet can be found in the baggie. Some possible explanations: the peat moss was too wet or contained some contaminants. Maybe the scale was simply not cooperating. If you put up a variety of scales, however, you will be sure of some success. I leave the scales and bulblets in the baggies in indirect sunlight, until they sprout small leaves. Next step: buy a roasted chicken. The plastic container makes the best greenhouse. After eating your chicken and cleaning out the plastic container, add damp potting mix. Place the scale with the tiny bulblets still attached onto the dirt. You can bury it a little, although its not necessary. Eventually, the scale will disappear, as the bulblets grow and create a root system. With the lid on, place your greenhouse on a window sill until the leaves touch the top. The two small vents in the plastic chicken roasters top seem just right for ventilation. My recommendation is to buy a chicken for each variety of lily bulblet; in that way, you can keep the lilies straight, plus you wont have to worry about the dinner menu for a while. When the baby lilies are ready to transplant, place them in plastic pots and bury the pots. Leave the rims above soil, though, so you will know where to find them the following spring. Be sure to label them. Eventually, the bulbs will outgrow the small pots and need their own garden spaces. It can take two to three years before you will have a strong enough stem to show. The GCV Lily Show has a special perpetual silver trophy for growing lilies from seed, scale or bulbils. It is called the Violet Niles Walker Memorial Trophy.
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Ex Libris
A Review of Designing by Types
By Molly H. Sammler, GCV Library Committee The Petersburg Garden Club hether you are struggling over a competitive floral design in a category that is completely new to you or just looking for that perfect arrangement to place in the foyer, Designing by Types is both a thorough and beautiful resource. It was recently published by National Garden Clubs (NGC), Inc., and edited by Harriet H. Osborne, with advise from Jena Ohlmann and coordination by Deen Day Sanders and Tony Todesco. This elaborate reference guide was produced to fulfill what the NGC Flower Schools Committee saw as a need for more extensive clarification of the newer NGC design types. More than 45 design types are detailed throughout the book. Each design type is illustrated by brilliant and vibrant full-color photographs by renowned photographer Terry Miles. The arrangements photographed were the work of 31 floral designers who were assigned a specific floral design type. The designers were asked to create two or more designs of a particular design type in order to help emphasize that there is no one single interpretation. They also were asked to stress diversity, the effect of background color, and the staging in a design type. In all, there are more than 190 photographs in the book, and, as noted in the NGC presidents message of appreciation, A picture is worth a thousand words.... Along with each design type photographed, there is a detailed and instructive breakdown of the arrangements components. The arrangements are judged on three qualities: conformance, artistic concept and distinction. The breakdown is again both instructive and interesting, especially if you are trying to create that new design type category. Designing by Types does achieve its goals to provide clarity and enjoyment. It also further stimulates creativity and interest in the more recent floral design types. The GCV was fortunate to have this book donated as reference for our library, and it is strongly recommended to arrangement enthusiasts.
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reen Spring Gardens is a lovely park located in Northern Virginia dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the areas horticultural, historical and natural resources. The 28-acre property is centered on a renovated 18th-century manor home, and consists of a horticultural center, gardens, forested paths and ponds. It includes a garden area originally designed by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, the designer of Dumbarton Oaks. The only Farrand garden in the state of Virginia, it was recently announced that it would be a GCV restoration project. Hunting Creek Garden Club donated $2,000 to Green Spring two years ago to assist with native plantings for the park. Recently, club members were treated to a wonderful tour by Gardens Director Mary Olien to see firsthand how our funds were being utilized. Our tour began on the forested path where we stopped at a beautiful gurgling stream that is part of the parks stream bank stabilization project to minimize erosion. The stream is fed by underground springs and is liberally populated with natural cobblestones. We then passed through a remnant magnolia bog, a designated wetland that protects lands within 100 feet of moving water. As we entered the pond areas, Mary pointed out an imbricated (tiled) rock wall employed to maintain structure in the streambed farther upstream. Gabion baskets, sturdy wire mesh that secures large rocks lining the stream, help prevent erosion and stabilize the stream bank. Hunting Creek Garden Clubs donation was instrumental in stabilizing the island in the large pond with plantings and to purchase and plant trees around the pond. The pond area is fed by three springs and adorned with many beautiful lotus plants. The ponds are home to frogs, geese, blue herons, three kinds of turtles, dragonflies, insects and birds. Like the many visitors who tour Green Spring annually, we enjoyed the stunning horticultural specimens and this island of beauty. We urge you to visit, too.
Club Notes
Albemarle, Charlottesville and Rivanna Garden Clubs he Presidents Project annually brings together the Albemarle, Charlottesville and Rivanna Garden Clubs to decorate the local Amtrak station for the Christmas holidays. On the Monday after Thanksgiving, the three club presidents and helpers arrive at the station bearing beautiful holiday greens and red bows. The station master brings out our stored tree, lights and ornaments. In a few hours, these clubs transform the station Santas helpers decorate the into a festive and welcoming venue for Charlottesville Amtrak station. passengers, friends and family. Since 2003, responsibilities have rotated yearly one president takes charge, one president handles publicity, and the third brings the greens and bows. All aboard! Katya Spicuzza
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Club Notes
The Garden Club of Alexandria ooking good and doing good what could be better? When The Garden Club of Alexandria needed to raise funds for civic projects four years ago, we decided to tie one on, literally. One of our clever members came up with the idea of designing a necktie with a gardening theme. Our fundraising tie was so successful that we have sold out of them, and this fall were introducing the second in our series of neckties. This one has both a gardening and a Virginia theme. Now, garden club husbands, fathers and sons across the commonwealth will be recognizable when sporting our latest creation. The spring green arrows of Historic Garden Week form the background, while the foreground is a repeating pattern of a pergola and an American dogwood tree, our state flower. The fundraiser has been a fun and rewarding endeavor, and we think Will Rieley Will Rieley sports Alexandrias new tie. is the perfect model! Mimi Conger
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Leesburg Garden Club
embers of the Leesburg Garden Club felt that the club needed to be more visible in our community and to make people aware of the positive impact we have. Two committees were formed. A Ways & Means Committee was created to generate funds and a Community Outreach Committee was created to find ways to disseminate those funds in the community. The Ways & Means Committee held silent auctions during our annual club picnic and an annual plant sale open to the public. Both events have been very popular. With the funds generated by these activities, the Leesburg Garden Club has been able to award a $500 scholarship in 2006 and $1000 scholarships to Loudoun County graduating seniors who met our criteria for the last four years. The club has given these scholarships with the guidance of the Community Outreach Committee working with the Guidance Department of Loudoun County Public Schools. The club has used funds raised also to make donations to various historic properties in Loudoun County. We are pleased to have helped graduating high school seniors as they embark on college educations that will, with luck, one day put them on the leading edge of protection and development of Virginias natural beauties. Jean Brown
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CHRISTMAS COLLECTION
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CONTRIBUTIONS
Annual Fund
Donor The Brunswick Garden Club The Spotswood Garden Club Donor In Honor of The Brunswick Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandy Hart The Garden Study Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lucy Wilson Kathryn Q. Wafle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Bemiss Suzanne Wright Donor In Memory of The Hampton Roads Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nancy Grier The Huntington Garden Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katherine Porter Read The Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Judith Burnett Halsey Mrs. Phillip G. Arnest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Polly Tayloe Jeanette Cadwallender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frances Dawson Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. John R. Morris, Jr. Mary Hart Darden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
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Eileen S. Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller Judy and Steve Perry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Irma Frances Hall Ayers Clyde and Carolyn Ratcliffe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. John R. Morris, Jr. Mary Ellen Wildman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katherine Porter Read Supports GCV clubs in local and statewide conservation projects. Donor In Honor of Hollis Stauber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peyton Wells Supports GCV Restoration projects across the Commonwealth. Donor In Honor of Mary Ann Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Bemiss Mary Wynn and Charles G. McDaniel Judy Perry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suzanne Munson Dianne Nea Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Bemiss Rieley & Associates Suzanne Wright Donor In Memory of The Garden Study Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Elizabeth Kearfott Supports Events, Education, and Development.
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The ownership, management and circulation of the Garden Club of Virginias Journal, published four times a year in Richmond, Virginia, is hereby stated in the first issue published after the first of October 2011. The name and address of the publisher is: Garden Club of Virginia, Kent-Valentine House, 12 East Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. The name and address of the editor is: Jeanette McKittrick, 5111 Cary Street Road, Richmond, Virginia 23226. The owner is: Garden Club of Virginia, Kent-Valentine House, 12 East Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. There are no bondholders, mortgages, or security holders. The purpose, function, and non-profit status of this organization and the exempt status for Federal Income Tax purposes have not changed during the preceding 12 months. The total number of copies published nearest the filing date is 3,400. The average number of copies published in the preceding 12 months is 3,400. There are no sales through dealers, etc. Paid subscriptions average 3,291; the number nearest the filing date is 3,270. Other mailed copies average 0. Free distribution averages 35. The average number of copies not distributed for the preceding year is 74. The average number of copies not distributed nearest the filing date is 90. The Journal Editor requests permission to mail Garden Club of Virginias Journal at the phased postal rates presently authorized on form 3526 for USPS #574-520 (ISSN 0431-0233). I certify that the statements made here are correct and complete as listed in the Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation. Jeanette McKittrick, Journal Editor 5111 Cary Street Road Richmond, VA 23226 October 15, 2011
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Deadline for nominations for the Massie Medal and the de Lacy Gray Medal Jan. 15 Deadline for March Journal Jan. 23 Legislative Day, Richmond Feb. 2729 GCV Symposium, The Homestead Mar. 1 Deadline for nominations for the Common Wealth Award, the Bessie Bocock Carter Conservation Award, and the Horticulture Award of Merit Mar. 15 Judges Workshop, Kent-Valentine House Mar. 2830 78th Annual Daffodil Show The Garden Club of Gloucester
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Dates and events as posted on the GCV website at http://gcvirginia.org. See website for further additions.