"transplantation should be made on mild days in winter, in 
spring or in damp weather in September and October. Care 
should be taken that the roots are not dried by exposure to the 
air." The Britannica also says that "Holly is propagated by 
means of seeds which do not normally germinate until their 
second year, by whip -grafting and budding, and by cuttings of 
the matured summer shoots which placed in sandy soil and kept 
under cover of a hand-glass in sheltered situations, generally 
strike root in spring." 
The Botanical Gardens at Bronx Park have been very success- 
ful in germinating plants from the seeds in one year. Quite a 
number of amateur gardeners, as well as four or five of our local 
nurseries, have planted berries this winter. The suggestion 
contained in the Britannica in regard to making cuttings of the 
matured summer shoots is also going to be carried out in a 
number of instances, so that we feel that a start in the right 
direction is already being made. 
In Baltimore we are making efforts to get the children of 
the public schools interested in the culture of Holly, hoping in 
this way not only to inculcate in them a love for the plant, but 
also through them to reach the parents. 
The Amateur Gardener's Club of Baltimore and the 
Baltimore Chapter of the Wild Flower Preservation Society of 
America are ready and anxious to begin an active campaign to 
save the Holly for the present and the future, and we appeal 
to all other Garden Clubs and Wild Flower Societies to co- 
operate with us in this important movement. Let us work for 
the preservation and cultivation of nature's ideal Christmas 
Tree, which will every year bring pleasure and happiness to 
thousands of men, women and children. 
LUELLA S. BOUTON. 
Amateur Gardeners of Baltimore. 
Let me take this opportunity of again urging The Garden 
Club of America to take up the question of preservation of 
Wild Flowers, Plants and Shrubs which are becoming more or 
less menaced by the automobile peril ; by way of illustration, we 
have in our woods at present, beautiful Ferns, Dogwood, wild 
Crab Apple, etc. Last summer on pleasant Sundays automobiles 
would pass our house completely filled with entire Dogwood 
bushes, Crab Apple and thousands of Ferns torn up by the root. 
It is the same way with a few Pines and Hemlocks still growing 
on our place. A week or two before Christmas, for several 
years past, automobiles and trucks appear, the occupants cutting 
down whole trees, stripping them of the better branches and 
leaving most of the greens on the ground. I have put up "no 
trespass" signs, threatened arrest, etc., but with little success. 
Eobert K. Eeed. 
Pittsburgh. 
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