wire and have no further trouble. I have used this wire under 
glass but found it did no injury where the temperature did not 
fall below freezing point." I have suffered such great personal 
disappointment through this unfortunate construction of my 
vine-supports, that I hope other gardeners will take warning 
and profit by my mistake. 
ROMAYNE LATTA "WARREN. 
Wild Flower Preservation Department 
' ' Hast thou named all the birds without a gun, 
Saved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk." 
Our National Park Service 
Perhaps few of the Garden Club members realize the 
importance of our National Park Service in Washington. The 
director is Mr. Stephen T. Mather, an energetic, vitally interested 
man, who spares neither himself nor his pocketbook in his effort 
to develop his department to its highest possible usefulness. Its 
aim is to have National ownership for all the parts of our 
country which have special scenic beauty and to encourage the 
States to have their parks for the use and recreation of the 
citizens every hundred miles from Maine to the Pacific ocean. 
In a later number we will give an account of the State Parks. 
In May there is to be a conference on these State Parks at the 
Palisades Interstate Park on the Hudson River. The date, May 
22 to May 25. This will be the second conference on State 
Parks. The first having been held in Des Moines in January, 
1921. I quote from a letter recently received from the Hon. 
John Barton Payne, Chairman for this conference: "A great 
deal of constructive wqrk has been done in the development of 
State Parks, duly stimulated by the work of the past conference. 
Considerable legislation has been enacted and new parks created. 
The convention this year will be particularly illuminating as it 
will give the delegates an opportunity of seeing the development 
in the Palisades Park which stands in the forefront of State 
Parks. "While the first and third days will be taken up in business 
sessions, the second will be devoted to a trip to West Point and 
a new state highway around Storm King overlooking the Hudson, 
while the fourth day will be given over to an inspection of the 
Bronx Parkway and will mean an especially interesting motor 
ride from the Bear Mountain Inn across the Hudson to Lake 
Kenico; from there down the Bronx Parkway to the New York 
gardens in the Bronx. The Governor of each State will be urged 
to appoint an official delegate, but various associations interested 
in the State Park idea are warmly invited to send their own 
representatives that close co-operation can be carried out 
among all the States and the slogan of "A State Park every 
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