CENTRAL ZONE 
Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson, Chairman 
2709 Prairie Avenue, Chicago 
Garden The Wild Flower Committee of the Garden Club or Cleveland 
Club is concentrating all its energies on the "Harriet Keeler Wild Flower 
OF Garden. " The city of Cleveland has given a tract of land to be used 
Clevela^td as a memorial to Harriet Keeler, the author of numerous books on 
Nature, and the superintendent of pubHc schools for many years. 
The land is to be used as a park for the preservation of wild flowers, 
especially to teach children to love them and care for them. 
The Shaker Lakes Garden Club and the Cleveland Garden 
Club have combined in this work and are hoping for an appropriation 
of $10,000 and a yearly maintenance fund from the city. 
(Mrs. Max) Jessica M. McMurray, Chairman 
Garden There being in active operation a Cincinnati Chapter of the Wild 
Club Flower Preservation Society of America, the Garden Club decided 
OF to assist the Wild Flower Society rather than work independently. 
Cincinnati Ascertaining that a long established Wild Flower Preserve had 
been sold for a factory site, diUgent efforts were made by the Garden 
Club to secure the right to remove the wild flowers to places of 
safety. This privilege of removal was generously transferred to the 
Wild Flower Society, and the rescue work is now under way. This, 
we think, is real preservation, — flowers rescued from certain destruc- 
tion and planted for the education and enjoyment of this and gen- 
erations to follow. 
Further encouragement is being given the Wild Flower Society 
in the school work commencing early in April. Doctor Condon, 
superintendent of schools, has called a conference of all the teachers 
of the pubHc schools, and the nationally known botanist and teacher, 
Prof. Harris M. Benedict, will give an illustrated lecture descriptive 
of the work to be done. 
The first week of May, the Wild Flower Society will have free use 
of the large lobby and two display • windows of the Union Trust 
Company, located at the most prominent corner in the city. It is 
intended to make an attractive exhibit of wild flowers, a few Hving 
specimens, more however in color or pressed, with a full line of 
flower books and artistic display cards. Experienced members will 
be in charge each day, ready and willing to give information regarding 
the flowers and explain the objects of the society. 
Walter B. Hofer, Chairman 
