Illustrated lectures have been given to various groups with the 
result of an increased membership in the Society for the 
Protection of Native Plants. This society has annual sustaining 
members who pay one dollar or more yearly. They in return 
are entitled to the leaflets of the Society. The Junior members 
purchase a button and have no dues. The Society . for the 
Protection of Native Plants is working with the Garden 
Club of America and with the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society and this practical combining for the same work leads us 
to hope for a better cooperation between similar organizations 
and the Garden Club op America in other sections. A move 
toward this has already begun. 
At the recent Palisades Park Conference nearly thirty organ- 
izations were represented, all delegates coming there for the 
same purpose, namely, to forward Conservation and to extend 
the out-door parks of America. Ten members of our Garden 
Club were present at this conference and we hope the number 
may be doubled next year. A report of the conference will be 
published in the Bulletin. 
We plan to develop a Conservation Motion Picture and have 
already been promised its circulation throughout all theatres in 
the country. 
We are advocating a National Conservation Day and a Com- 
mittee was formed at the conference to consider how it should 
best be brought before Congress. Arbor Day was included in 
this resolution for a National holiday. If the people, through 
appropriate education and special opportunities to use the parks, 
develop a greater sense of interest and appreciation of nature, a 
sentiment might be created towards a general conservation 
program for the whole United States. 
We are anxious to standardize our lists and the information 
we are trying to disseminate, and we mean to develop a manual 
or series of manuals for general use. One of these booklets is 
being prepared this summer and others will follow. We ask that 
any original plays or pageants of this sort be sent to us. 
In conclusion, to show how far reaching the sympathy in our 
movement has gone and how it is beginning to strike at the very 
heart of the commercial interests, I want to report the step 
that the leading florist of Boston has taken. After July first, 
Carbone & Company, of Boston, will discontinue the sale of 
Laurel, Ground Pine and Arbutus, saying that he is doing this 
to assist the conservation movement of the country. On speak- 
ing of this to a leading Chicago florist, Ernest Witherbee, he at 
once said he would follow the lead of Carbone & Company. If 
our members will cite these instances as examples of a courag- 
eous stand of two fine firms, we believe the list can be increased 
indefinitely. 
The chairman of the W T ild Flower Committee wishes to thank 
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