to death, who will restore those to our wild gardens? Although there 
are active societies to push this work should we not help them, as we 
represent a strong and influential group of nature lovers? 
The question was raised last year as to how we could carry our 
interest and knowledge further and use it for the education of the 
public. 
We suggest three practical methods: 
1. To enlarge our own knowledge of wild plants, trees and birds. 
In most of our Clubs one program a year is devoted to the wild 
flowers. It is an interesting meeting to those who are familiar with 
the wild flowers, but to those who are not, and whose knowledge 
is somewhat limited to the cultivated plants, it is not always appealing. 
One yearly program seems hardly enough to stimulate this interest. 
Therefore, we suggest that at each meeting of the local Clubs several 
wild flowers be brought for exhibit, with a few words of description 
(not to exceed five minutes) given each time by different members of 
the Clubs. Trees, and sometimes birds, might be a part of the pro- 
gram. With this slight efi'ort we would become more familiar with 
our native growth, which is the first step towards an interest in its 
conservation. 
2. For our Annual Wild Flower Program let us have a strong 
meeting, to which the local Garden Clubs shall invite all nature- 
loving societies (Wild Flower Preservation Societies, Audubon So- 
cieties, etc.) to join with them in a conservation meeting, at which 
there might be speeches, exhibits, moving pictures, etc., — anything 
that a Club's ingenuity could devise to make the day a success. The 
meeting should be open to the public and held at a County Fair, a 
Public School, or in a Market Square, and it should be well advertised. 
The day should be recognized as "Wild Flower Conservation Day" 
by all of the Garden Clubs of America. 
3. To devote a part of the Bulletin to the cause of Wild Flower 
Preservation, every Club feeling its obligation to contribute reports 
and various items of interest. 
BELIEVING, THEREFORE, that there should be a more 
vigorous policy on the part of the Garden Club of America towards 
a national conservation of our native plants, trees and birds, 
WE MOVE the adoption of this plan by the Garden Club of 
America, and ask that a strong recommendation be sent from this 
body to the local Garden Clubs, urging their co-operation in this 
movement. 
(Signed) 
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