CALIFORNIA'S ANNUAL WILD FLOWER FETE 



The California Wild Flower Fete is held annually under the auspices of and 

 for the benefit of the Boys' Outing Farm. 



This interesting event was inaugurated at the Panama-Pacific International 

 Exposition on April 24th, in 1915. April 24th has since been proclaimed "Cali- 

 fornia Wild Flower Day" by Governor Hiram W. Johnson, and speedily became 

 one of the recognized and popular institutions of the State. The event is largely 

 participated in by the leading Botanical Societies, Naturalists, Scientists and inter- 

 ested people from all parts of the country. 



On April 24th, 1916, Wild Flower Day was celebrated at the Fairmont Hotel, 

 in San Francisco, with a wonderful display of the State's flora. 



The Third Annual California Wild Flower Fete, held at the Fairmont Hotel 

 in 1917, from April the 24th to 28th, inclusive, has become a matter of national in- 

 terest. Wild flowers have been sent from every portion of the State, arranged and 

 classified by leading botanists. Shrubs and trees were supplied by the I "nited 

 States Forest Service. A fine display of native grasses was furnished by the Uni- 

 versity of California. The Leland Stanford Junior University has also given 

 hearty co-operation in the collecting and classifying of flowers. Mark Daniels, 

 former Superintendent and Landscape Engineer of national parks, has given his 

 services as director of the display. John McLaren, Superintendent of Golden Gate 

 Park, has Deen actively interested, and has contributed much material to the ex- 

 hibit. Members of the California Botanical Society, the Sierra Club, the State 

 Floral Society, Mills College, Miss Murison's School Girls, the San Leandro Pub- 

 lis Schools, the Outing Farm Boys, and many others have given much time to the 

 securing of rare specimens for the display. It is impossible at this time to give 

 credit to all who have materially aided in the success of the Wild Flower Fete. 



Mrs. Bertha M. Rice, Chairman of California Wild Flower Day, who has 

 planned and directed the affair during the past three years, and who has been 

 untiring in her efforts to make the event one of real educational value and spiritual 

 uplift to the State at large, has organized the "California Wild Flower Fete Asso- 

 ciation," composed largely of the former members of the Boys' Outing Farm, who 

 will unite their efforts in furthering the success of California's Annual Wild Flower 

 Fete, in hopes that the funds realized from this yearly exhibit of the State's flora 

 will place the Boys' Outing Farm, a beautiful mountain retreat for city children, 

 on a self-supporing basis. 



At the annual meeting of the California Botanical Society, held in Berkeley 

 on Saturday, April the 14th, this plan was heartily approved and endorsed by the 

 members. A resolution was adopted by the California Botanical Society to co- 

 operate with and assist the boys in every possible way. The Wild Flower Fete 

 Association is receiving the endorsement and sympathetic support of many promin- 

 ent organizations and individuals, who are in touch with the work accomplished 

 by the Boys' Outing Farm. 



