The Garden The Princeton Committee for the Preservation of Wild Flowers 
Club of commenced work in November, 1920. Our motto, inspired by the 
Princeton pledge-card of the Chicago Chapter of the Wild Flower Preservation 
Society of America reads : " In order to make the world more beautiful 
for all of us, protect the wild flowers and learn to know and love your 
out-of-doors. " With the co-operation of our public-spirited Hbrarian, 
we established a Nature Corner in one of the already overcrowded 
rooms in the Town Library, Here we have shown continuously, 
seasonable exhibits, all clearly marked — supplemented by books of 
popular interest, relevant to the exhibit. Our first exhibit was one 
of pressed leaves, gathered by the school children from the streets 
of our town. This developed into an exhibit of oak leaves in variety, 
and the last remnants of beautiful growing things found even among 
the tin cans in every vacant lot; seed pods, again gathered and 
mounted by school children from woods and fields; nuts; a large 
collection of evergreens (seventy-three in number, from our town); 
a charmingly arranged dish of mosses, lichens and fungi from our 
local woods; all, in their turn, have contributed to our corner. 
We try to keep local bird and flower news posted so that the 
public may be informed as to what is to be seen at the moment in our 
woods and fields, and incidentally what particularly needs protection. 
Simple nature talks have been given in connection with some of our 
exhibits, and we encourage the public to bring flowers for identifica- 
tion to our corner in the Ubrary. We confine our exhibits to single 
specimens carefully arranged, in the hope of teaching the beauty of 
the single specimen, as contrasted with the bunches of wild flowers 
so ruthlessly picked by thoughtless people. 
Our Garden Club also has plans for the estabHshment of a local 
wild flower preserve, for which this indoor work wiU be of truly great 
supplemental value. 
(Mrs. Stewart) F. Margaret Paton, Chairman 
Rye We have just started our work in Rye for the preservation of wild 
Garden flowers. The first step has been to plan a lecture with colored sUdes, 
Club to be given to the children in the public school, to familiarize them 
with the names and also to teach them the care of wild flowers in the 
vicinity. The speaker and the slides are to be sent from the New 
York Botanical Gardens. After this I have promised Mrs. Farwell 
to try to estabHsh a LaRue Holmes Nature League in the school. 
We plan to have one meeting during the season in our Club 
devoted to the preservation of wild flowers, and wish to report that 
three members are especially interested in this subject, one in 
conserving the flowers in her woods, and one in naturalizing 
wild flowers in connection with a rock garden on her farm. I 
am making a collection in my bit of woodland, trying to have 
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