Thus we were able to do our part toward the National Cause, 
even when we were enjoying those happy moments in the garden 
which we all crave. 
May we beg our sister Garden Clubs to do this sort of thing next 
year? We must not set aside all things beautiful during these sorrow- 
ful days. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." We need 
relaxation from the stress and strain of our work, and if our play can 
also be of service to our coimtry, by all means let us still have our 
flowers. 
Henrietta M. Stout. 
(Mrs. Charles M. Stout.) 
Committee on the Preservation of 
Wild Flowers 
" There is great uncertainty as to whether Holland bulbs — such 
as Hyacinths, Tuhps, Jonquils, Daffodils and all those spring beauties 
— can reach our shores this fall. Since February ist not a single ship- 
ment of Holland products has arrived. War or no war, we must have 
flowers in our gardens, and particularly so in the early spring, when our 
very souls yearn for the things that peep through the ground. 
"Do you know that we can make our gardens just delightful by 
using the very material that is nodding at our back door — flowers 
which grow in the fields and woods? Some of them you have always 
bought and thought you had a rarity. 
"Now, let me tell you it is not easy to collect wild flowers, for you 
can only collect them while dormant, and then you don't know how to 
find them. It is not easy, either, to dig them, and some times you 
spend a whole day and find but a handful. 
"But I have a friend who is an expert at this and he makes it a busi- 
ness, and being, therefore, at headquarters, I am able to offer them at 
remarkably low prices. 
"If you have a piece of wood land which you wish to beautify in- 
expensively here is your opportunity to do so. 
''The roots are delivered at the time they are dug up and are shipped 
direct from the collector to the consumer; but it is not always possible 
to ship several sorts at one time. 
"Owing to the low cost of these things, no order for less than 25 of a 
kind is accepted." 
The above extract appeared in Fuld's catalogue for July, 1917. 
Would it not be possible for The Garden Club of America to make 
some protest against a method of procuring wild flowers, that means 
complete devastation of one of nature's gardens, followed, probably, 
by the extinction of many of our native plants? 
