and cattle, and the greedy "hiker" has robbed the canyons of 
Maiden-hair, Fairy-bells and Wake-robin. 
It is none too soon to begin to teach our children to spare what 
is left, and our own generation must awake to its duties and save 
the Redwood groves, or at least the finest. In saving them we save 
the characteristic and beautiful flora that would perish with them. 
The Toyon, or Christmas Berry, is the next plant in danger of 
extinction, and a law has just been passed at Sacramento protecting 
this beloved of our childhood. The devoted labors of the " Save 
the Redwood League" and the "League for Conservation of Wild 
Flowers" are bearing fruit, and the Garden Clubs of California wish 
to put themselves on record as favoring these two movements, and 
all others which will help to preserve our glorious and unique flora. 
The campaign must be chiefly an educational one. Signs will 
be posted by many owners, putting a new idea into many minds. 
The mischief done is not wanton, but through entire ignorance. 
In certain parks, where picking is entirely forbidden, the ferns and 
shrubs are willingly spared, and flourish in spite of crowds of city 
visitors. 
A Central Committee of the Pacific Zone has been formed in and 
near San Francisco, all enthusiastic for Wild Flower Conservation. 
A movement is on foot to organize Garden Clubs in the Bay 
district and northward, and we hope to have an account of progress 
by another year. (Miss) Anna Head, Chairman 
The On November 8, 1920, at a meeting of our Garden Club, at Mon- 
Garden tecito, Mr. Theodore Payne gave an illustrated lecture on CaUfornia 
Club wild flowers. Following this, our President called for volunteers to 
OF Santa form a Wild Flower Committee. We divided the Committee into 
Barbara three sub-committees: first, Education; second, Distribution; third, 
AND PubHcity. 
Monte- Under Education, we include talks to children in schools; the 
CITO planting of school gardens, individual packets of seeds being given 
to the children for their own gardens; prizes of wild flower guide books, 
suggestions for raising wild flower seeds to sell to tourists and plant 
lovers, raising wild flowers to sell; and, above all, not to pull up or 
destroy them where they grow naturally. 
Under Distribution, a letter was sent to every member of the 
Garden Club, asking them to plant wild flowers in their gardens, 
and to notify our official photographer when the flowers were in 
bloom. This sub-committee includes also the planting of wild flow- 
ers in parks. 
Under Publicity, this committee is responsible for transferring 
the photographs of wild flowers to lantern shdes for educational 
purposes, and for exchange with the eastern Garden Clubs. Fre- 
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