Society for the Preservation of New England Plants 



A Society for the Preservation of Native New England Plants 

 has been formed under the auspices of the Garden Club of America 

 and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Its object is to encourage and educate the people of New England 

 to protect native plants and wild flowers from destruction, to 

 only cut them with care and discrimination, leaving the rarer 

 species to multiply themselves, and to spread a knowledge of 

 their habits and cultural requirements among the community at 

 large. 



This Society plans to provide free lectures, hold exhibitions, 

 plant wild flower sanctuaries, and to spread knowledge and love 

 of wild plants, believing that once the people have learned 

 about them they will become their guardians and stop their rapid 

 extermination. 



At present the native Laurel is in great danger, being used in 

 immense quantities in decorations at all seasons of the year, but 

 especially at Christmas time. It is gathered in September when 

 the new growth of the year is taken and in New England motorists 



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