be passed promptly and without a dissenting voice. Without food 
we cannot win the war, and without the help of the birds we shall 
have dif&culty in saving the crops. Mrs. Edward H. Bouton, 
President, Roland Park Bird Club. 
Amateur Gardeners Clubs. 
Deliver Us from Our Friends 
The suggestion is made that two spring days be given to school 
children to visit the woods and fields and see spring flowers grow. 
Here is another suggestion. — 
That the children be taught to respect what they see. It is a 
prevaiHng notion that the way to demonstrate an interest in the out- 
doors is to destroy its beauties. If people were indifferent to wild 
flowers the flowers would not be at the very edge of extinction. 
About great cities where people go in the greatest numbers the 
wild flowers are dying out because of the interest taken in them. They 
are dragged up by the roots. They are prevented from seeding. They 
disappear from places which they decorated to the pleasure of the very 
folk who destroyed them. 
The arbutus, that very breath of spring, has gone from suburban 
woods. People who loved it would not let it live. The lady slippers 
once colored the later days of spring. They are gone. The trillium is 
going. Even the hardy phlox and the delicate wild geranium, even 
violets, are disappearing in the hands of their deadly friends who will 
not be content with seeing them where they belong but must tear 
them out to carry a basketful of sad, wilted flowers home to be hope- 
less and faded aliens in surroundings where they can be only forlorn. 
It is not sentimentalism to lament the brutality which destroys 
the wild flowers. If they were not worth while in the lives of human 
beings they would be safe. No one would molest them. The fact that 
they are destroyed proves that they ought to be protected. 
If wild flowers can be protected from people who think they are 
worth while they will be safe. 
Adapted from The Chicago Tribune. 
Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture, 
Groton, Massachusetts 
Looking through the sale hst of alpines, other rock plants and 
perennials for sale by the Nursery Department at Lowthorpe, I ex- 
claimed to Miss Louise Hetzer, Instructor in Horticulture, — but who 
calls herself Superintending Gardener — "Why don't you advertise 
