Lake The members of the Lake Geneva Garden Club were 
Geneva hostesses on January 7, at the Third Annual Nature Study 
Garden Exhibition of the Chicago Chapter of the Wild Flower Preserva- 
Club tion Society. 
During the meeting of the National Conference on Parks, at 
Des Moines, January 10, 11 and 12, Mrs. Hutchinson, representing 
the Garden Club of America, gave a very interesting talk in 
favor of a National Conservation Day, and offered the following 
resolution: 
Whereas, our unparallelled natural resources are in danger of 
being destroyed, robbing future generations of these commercial 
assets and also of the out-of-door beauty spots which have con- 
tributed to our health and strength as a nation, and 
Whereas, conservation of waterways and forests and plant and 
animal life is in no way incompatible with our continued industrial 
development, but on the contrary essential to it, and 
Whereas, a National Holiday dedicated to the purposes of Con- 
servation would emphasize the need for conserving these resources 
and not abusing them, and would promote love of country, therefore 
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Resolved that Congress hereby is requested to set aside the 
First Saturday of May as National Conservation Day and other 
Government agencies are urged to further this plan by assisting in 
its celebration. 
Mrs. J. S. Llewellyn, Secretary 
c The Shaker Lakes Garden Club takes great pleasure in an- 
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J nouncing in the Bulletin that their Wild Flower Preserve is an 
P assured fact. The City Council has adopted the resolution to put 
P aside four acres of park property to be used as a Botanical Garden. 
The Cleveland Garden Club and the Shaker Lakes Club 
are expected to plan and plant, to work and to play in the Preserve. 
Just at present the Garden looks like a poor shorn lamb. The 
trees have been doctored, the weeds and wild grass burned, the 
hillsides raked and, in fact, such a thorough house-cleaning has taken 
place, that it needs the eye of a true garden lover to see it as it will 
be in the future, in that magical "next summer," which is so dear to 
all gardeners. 
A hundred years ago, there was an herb garden here which the 
Shakers watched with care; wild plants for medicinal purposes were 
raised in great quantities; "Aconite leaves 40c a lb.," is one of the 
items in their catalogue. So we must have an herb garden in the 
same place and one dreams the grey shadows of its former occu- 
pants may perhaps come to be made glad by this living and loving 
memory of the olden time. 
(Mrs. G. H.) Alice H. Gardner, Chairman 
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