At every meeting of the Garden Club of Philadelphia during Garden 
the past year there have been five-minute talks on the wild flowers. Club 
This is to be continued throughout the coming year. of 
After the New York meeting of the Garden Club of America Philadel- 
our chairman reorganized her committee, which now consists of phia 
seven members with the chairman, she having been appointed to take 
charge of the Upper Southern Zone. An outHne for the year's work 
was planned, and the Society of Little Gardens, the Weeders and 
Gardeners were asked to join us in giving free lectures on wild 
flowers. In the late winter these were given at the Academy of 
Natural Sciences by Mr. Witmer Stone. 
An excursion was taken to the Arboretum near Chester, on 
March 29. Dr. Harshberger, who is the chairman for the Preserva- 
tion of Wild Flowers Committee, told us that the Arboretum had 
been planted eighty years ago by Joshua Painter and his brother. 
Several of our Committee members have spoken at schools and 
clubs on the wild flowers. Mrs. Mercer is preparing for Arbor Day 
exercises at the Doylestown High School, where she will give an 
illustrated talk. She has offered prizes at that school for the best 
essays on the preservation of wild flowers. 
We propose to have two wild flower excursions, one in the spring 
and one in the autumn, when the flowers in blossom or in seed may 
be seen. 
At the request of the commissioners of the Fairmount Park Asso- 
ciation, the Club made suggestions for planting along the River 
Drive, and also for the planting in Wister's Woods Park, with a view 
to its ultimately becoming a wild flower preserve. 
The great need of all the Garden Clubs is that they should be 
aroused to the necessity of the preservation of the wild flowers, as 
it is only by individual and united efforts that we can succeed before 
it is too late. 
Letitia E. Wright, Chairman 
The Wild Flower Preservation Society has been taken over in Garden 
Maryland by a committee, not composed exclusively of the Garden Club 
Club members but endeavoring to interest the general public. qf 
The Garden Club as a whole hopes to help with the wild flower Twenty 
work, but they are requested by the Society to work in conjunction 
with them. Quite a large plot of land, belonging to The Johns Hop- 
kins University, for the cultivation of wild flowers and as a place 
where young people can study the subject, has been loaned by the 
University. They hope to do a great deal of educational work in 
the schools. Possibly later the Garden Clubs will each have some 
special share of the work; but as yet that has not been done. 
(Mrs. W. Champlin) Betty C. Robinson, President 
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