The Garden Club of Denver has prepared, with the aid of the Garden 
Mountain Club, two Bills which were presented to the legislature: Club 
one for the protection of Columbine {Aguilegia coerulia), our State of 
Flower, so mercilessly torn from its lovely hillside haunts under Denver 
the aspens; the other, a general measure covering the destruction of 
all wild flowers and small bird and animal life in certain areas. These 
measures have passed the Senate and are pending in the House of 
Representatives. 
We are planning a general pubHcity campaign for the summer 
season, — such as stationing Boy Scouts at the entrance of one of our 
mountain parks with hand bills on which the legend of "protection" 
nms in some striking sentences. 
An experiment in which our interest centers greatly is that of 
replanting the devastated hillsides. You who have seen the lovely 
pale Mariposa Lily on its slender stem, the blue and white Columbine 
shining among the grasses, the gleaming red Wood Lily in its beauty, 
and the wealth of flowers unfamihar to the eastern woods but native 
in our more rugged western hillsides, can reaUze our desire to keep 
what we have almost lost, and regain what we once had. The Garden 
Club of Denver has selected an experimental field in the mountain 
parks above Denver. If we succeed, a Botanical Garden will result, 
which we hope will contain species of alpine, sub-alpine, foothill and 
plain flora. Owing, however, to the peculiarity of the cHmate of 
Colorado, the infrequency of rain fall, etc., to which the plants adapt 
themselves so beautifully when allowed to propagate alone, we cannot 
teU whether one planting will prove successful or not, so we await the 
result of our experiment with great interest. 
(Mrs. Bradish) Anna R. Morse, for the Chairman 
The V/ild Flower Preservation Committee of the Garden Club Garden 
OF Illinois is planning to reach the schools of the neighborhood Club 
through the LaRue Holmes Nature League, of Summit, New Jersey, qj. 
During the summer the committee will try to enUst the protective Illinois 
interest of the Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls and to have a pub- 
lic illustrated lecture on native plants and trees that especially need 
guarding, or that are threatened with extermination. 
A small, attractive bulletin board will be placed in the PubKc 
Library, where each month there will be displayed pictures of wild 
flowers blooming at the time, and a warning notice to preserve the 
flowers in their habitat. 
One meeting of the Garden Club, devoted to wild flowers, will 
be illustrated and addressed by Mr. Norman Taylor of the Brook- 
lyn Botanic Gardens. 
(Mrs. Louis E.) Josephine K. Laflin, Chairman 
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