CONNECTICUT ZONE 
Mr. Alain C. White, Chairman 
Litchfield, Connecticut 
The Connecticut Flower Preservation Committee consists of one 
representative from each Garden Club in the Connecticut Zone, with 
an Advisory Committee as follows: 
Mrs. F. C. Farwell, National Wild Flower Committee, Chicago. 
Miss Amy Folsom, Society for Protection of Native Plants, 
Boston, 
Mrs. N. L. Brixton, American Society for the Preservation of 
Wild Flowers, Bronx Park, New York. 
The State Committee has prepared a series of six articles on the 
following subjects : 
The Trailing Arbutus, The Mountain Laurel, The Orchids, The 
Cardinal Flower and other Lobelias, The Gentians, Respect to Our Trees. 
These are to be submitted to the editors of all daily and weekly 
papers in the state and it is hoped that as many as possible will give 
them publicity, one article being intended for each of the summer 
months. They are also to be sent to the principals of the public 
schools in every township. Finally they will be distributed to all 
summer camps that can be reached, of such bodies as the Boy Scouts. 
The Camp Fire Girls of America have shown interest in the arti- 
cles and have asked for a summary to be printed in their magazine 
for May, and this has already been furnished. This paper circulates 
among 6,000 Camp Fire leaders, and some 7,500 other subscribers 
throughout the country. 
Although the six articles referred to are especially prepared to tell 
of conditions in Connecticut, copies will be sent on request to any per- 
sons interested outside the state. They have been carefully corrected 
by Professor Nichols, American Ecological Society, New Haven, and 
Mrs. Britton, and are believed to be authoritative in every respect. 
Alain C. White, Chairman 
During the years that I have been President of our Club there Garden 
has been a Wild Flower Committee that has done some good work. Club 
most particularly in regard to the preservation of Laurel in Connecti- of 
cut, and some excellent legislation is now in force in the state, I Litch- 
have also had some lecturers on the subject, and tried to enlist the field 
school children, 
Litchfield is a locality where the wild flowers are so cormnon that 
I do not find that the children pick them generally, with the excep- 
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