The National Wild Flower Committee also requests each Garden 
Club to contribute dues of $5 . 00 each year to the Wild Flower Com- 
mittee of the Garden Club of America, to help in the publication 
of pamphlets, etc. 
The plans for the future include starting preserves; working 
through schools with the children; holding community conserva- 
tion meetings open to the public, with lectures, flower pageants, 
stereopticon views, etc. There is plenty of opportunity for initiative. 
After the reading of this report Mrs. MiUspaugh, of Chicago, read 
an interesting paper on wild flowers, illustrated by beautiful film 
pictures of flowers and landscapes. These pictures were taken by 
Dr. MiUspaugh of the Field Museum. Mrs, Millspaugh's thought was 
that as the Garden Clubs were organized to create beauty they would 
certainly be vitally interested in trying to keep all the beauty in our 
country which already is there. She spoke of the intense love of 
nature which all Japanese have, and showed pictures of the school 
children in Japan, hiking into the country, as they do every month, 
to be taught appreciation of their landscape, Japanese children do not 
need to be told not to injure trees or shrubs, nor pick wild flowers. 
They love them, and what one loves one does not destroy. 
Mrs. C, L. Hutchinson of Chicago gave a ten minute talk illustrat- 
ed by slides on the Pageant of Wild Flowers arranged by Mrs. MiUs- 
paugh and produced three times during the summer by three different 
groups of children in and near Chicago, thus reaching some twenty 
thousand people. She also showed pictures of the seven wild flowers 
that the Chicago Chapter of the Wild Flower Preservation Society is 
trying to protect by legislation, viz., the Spring Beauty, Bloodroot, 
TrilHum, Columbine, Lady Slipper, Gentian and Lotus. 
Mrs. William Carey brought from New Canaan her interesting, 
well mounted herbarium, and this exhibit around the walls of the 
audience room at the Cosmopolitan Club added much to the pleasure 
of the meeting, especially as Mrs. Carey was there to answer ques- 
tions and to tell vividly of her interest in collecting these specimens. 
After the meeting a delegate said to the writer, "I was asked to 
speak of wild flower preservation at the schools of Albany last week, 
and declined to do so because I have so Httle material for such talks. 
I am now going back to offer to speak to the children, feeling that I 
have more than enough to say." That remark greatly encouraged 
the Wild Flower Committee. 
Mrs. Sloan showed very interesting pictures taken by Club mem- 
bers in their gardens, — about twenty-five in all. It is to be hoped that 
many others will give us the pleasure of visiting their gardens in this 
delightfully easy way through the courtesy of the stereopticon. 
Fanny Day Farwell, 
Chairman of the Wild Flower Committee. 
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