Issue of the Needle and Bobbin Club Bulletin containing two articles. Margaret Harrington Daniels's "Embroidery and Botany" traces how Pierre Vallet, embroiderer to the French king, and the botanist Jean Robin produced the flower pattern book Le Jardin du Roy (Paris, 1608), and links it to French parterre gardens and the origins of the Jardin des Plantes. Phyllis Ackerman's "An Adoration of the Magi in Embroidery" interprets the iconography of a late Renaissance embroidered panel. Club Notes report a lecture on Javanese batik and an exhibit of the Anna Blakesley Bliss lace collection, followed by lists of officers and directors.