Holly As the Christmas Holidays will soon be here we want to 
again urge the members of the Garden Clubs to purchase Holly 
and Ground Pine very sparingly, if at all, and whenever possible, 
to use a live Christmas tree instead of a dead one. The live one 
can be replanted, to become a tree of sentiment for years instead 
of for a few days only. Substitutes for Holly and Ground Pine 
are being found and we already have many bright plants offered 
by thg growers. As the florists have acceded to our suggestion, 
it seems as though a great responsibility rests with the consumer. 
Texas The chairman of this state thinks that southern Smilax, 
Mistletoe and Spanish moss will be splendid . substitutes for 
Christmas greens. They are parasites and most injurious to the 
trees on which they grow. She also suggests Christmas wreaths 
of slightly-tinted Oak leaves. Mrs. Sealy has been spending the 
summer in Chautauqua, where she has found ample opportunity 
of spreading conservation suggestions. As thousands of people 
visit this place of assembly during the summer she hopes that 
in another year a regular conservation program may. be planned. 
At the November meeting of the State Federation of "Women's 
Clubs, an opportunity is to be given her to place the conserva- 
tion idea before this large assemblage of representative women. 
Slides will be shown illustrating the before-and-after effects of 
Christmas greens devastation. 
Upper The Garden Clubs of Baltimore and the Washington Chapter 
Southern of the Wild Flower Preservation Society had a meeting on 
Zone September 29th, at the residence of Mrs. E. H. Bouton, to in- 
augurate plans for arresting the destruction of Holly and Christ- 
mas Evergreens. 
Society op A letter was sent to the National Association of commercial 
American dealers of the country, asking them to cooperate with the 
Florists conservation plans of the Garden Club op America. They have 
responded heartily, as indicated in the following extract from a 
letter written after the Annual Meeting of the Society of Ameri- 
can Florists in Kansas City, Mo., August 15th to 17th, 1922 : 
"The Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horti- 
culturists heartily approves of the effort of the Garden Club op 
America in the laudable endeavor to preserve the native plants 
and shrubs of the country and wishes to assure you that this 
undertaking will have their fullest co-operation. The writer 
-was instructed to write our Vice Presidents located in every 
state in the Union, notifying them of the action of our Society, 
taken at our Annual Meeting, requesting their support and co- 
operation. ' ' 
Signed by the Secretary of The Society of American Florists 
and Ornamental Horticulturists. 
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