Hardy Our work at this early season has consisted mainly of propaganda. 
Garden As our spring has been very advanced, many wild flowers which are 
Club due to bloom in May are now mature. Members of our Club are mak- 
OF ing tours of the woods, not only to acquaint themselves with the wild 
RuxTON flowers, but to collect plants for wild flower gardens. Our plan is 
to speak before the children of the public schools in our district, and 
to spread as widely as possible the necessity for the preservation of 
wild flowers. We have also had two interesting lectures on this 
subject. The chairman is a member of the Advisory Board of the 
Baltimore Chapter of the Wild Flower Preservation Society. 
(Mrs. R. Bennett) Frances H. Darnall, Chairman 
Garden The Wild Flower Committee of the Garden Club of Harford 
Club County has not accompHshed much except in one hne. We have 
OF interviewed the School Board and found them interested and ready 
Harford to lend a helping hand. A letter has been sent out by the secretary 
County of the Board to awaken the teachers, and on May Day eleven 
schools throughout the county will have pledges for the children 
to sign. Also a list of wild flowers will be given them, showing 
which flowers may be picked generously and which should be picked 
sparingly. 
Through the children we hope to reach the older members of the 
family. 
(Mrs. Bertram B.) Margaret B. Stump, Chairman 
The It is a pleasure to be able to report from the Gardeners of 
Gardeners Montgomery and Delaware Counties that the interest in Wild 
of Flower Preservation is increasingly enthusiastic, and though our work 
Montgom- has not yet begun to show results, our hopes are high. Our Club is 
ERY and in co-operation with other local Garden Clubs, and we expect to carry 
Delaware out a plan for five-minute talks at our schools, which we will illus- 
Counties trate with shdes, or with drawings and sketches where a lantern is 
not available. Longer talks will be given at community centers, 
women's clubs and girls' leagues. 
We wish also to urge the members of our Club and others in- 
terested in the preservation of our native plants, to set apart a space 
in their own gardens for growing from seeds some of the choice, 
rare and most beautiful varieties. There is also with us the hope 
that an organization may be established which will comprise a large 
membership all over the country, of men and women, boys and girls, 
old and young, all eager and interested in caring for and preserving 
beautiful native plants, and that by this means refuges or sanctu- 
aries in appropriate locaHties may be set aside where trees and flow- 
ers can flourish undisturbed. 
(Mrs. William M.) Mary B. McCawley, Chairman 
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