director of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 gave an illustrated lecture at the Smitliso- 

 nian Institution, Washington, on the preser- 

 vation of our native plants, and immediately 

 following this, the Wild Flower Preservation 

 Society of America Avas organized and has 

 ever since cooperated with the Stokes Fund 

 work at the New York Botanical Garden, the 

 writer having acted as secretary of both for 

 many years. In the same year the Society 

 for the Protection of Native Plants was or- 

 ganized in Boston. It not only has distrib- 

 uted leaflets and posters free in all parts of 

 New England but also has cooperated with 

 various horticultural and botanical societies. 

 The interest on the Stokes Fund has been 

 used in various ways: first, to secure essays, 

 leaflets, and posters that could be distributed 

 to those wishing further information, or to 

 protect their own property from depredation ; 

 second, for illustrated lectures to be deliv- 

 ered to schools and colleges in various cities 

 and towns; third, to reproduce in colors, 

 paintings by Miss M. E. Eaton, of some of 

 the rare wild flowers needing protection, ac- 

 companied by descriptions; duplicates of 

 these were distributed free to libraries, 

 schools, colleges, and museums; fourth, to 

 frame sets of these as Arbor Day prizes to 

 the schools that agreed to compete and pledge 

 themselves to cooperate in the Avork of con- 

 servation; fifth, to prepare a set of colored 



lantern slides for use in Arbor Day and 

 conservation talks. 



In the fifteen years since this work was 

 systematically begun, the active cooperation 

 of nearly all the schools and colleges of 

 Greater New York has been secured, also 

 that of various towns in the vicinity of New 

 York. The Federation of Women's Clubs 

 has expressed its approval and these clubs 

 are carrying on local conservation projects 

 in various parts of the United States. The 

 Garden Clubs of America proclaim as one of 

 their objects, "to aid in the protection of na- 

 tive i^lants and birds," and many of them 

 have been giving a series of lectures on both 

 these topics as part of their programs. Chaj)- 

 ters of the Wild Flower Preservation Society 

 of America have been established in Wash- 

 ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, 

 Cincinnati, and Milwaukee, and have had a 

 far-reaching and beneficial influence in each 

 of these cities. Conservation of the birds 

 and plants has been accepted as part of the 

 nature work of the board of education of 

 many towns, and the relation and interde- 

 pendence of birds, insects, and jjlants has 

 been emphasized in all our lectures ; but thus 

 far no simple and practical leaflet has been 

 printed, that would emphasize the balance of 

 life betweeen these groups. 



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