quent short articles, telling what these sub-committees are doing 
are to be sent to the Garden Club Bulletin, to the local news- 
papers, and leaflets exchanged with the eastern Garden Clubs. 
(Mrs. Warner M.) Louise H. Leeds, Chairman 
THE LARUE HOLMES NATURE LOVERS' LEAGUE 
The question is frequently asked: "What does this Nature 
League stand for? What is its special motive?" The answer is 
brief: "Its object is to create sentiment toward the protection of 
the wild flora of this country, and other riches in Nature. " 
As no country has been more fully endowed with Nature's wealth 
than America, so it may be said, to our discredit, that none has 
more wantonly destroyed its inheritance. Its forests are felled 
without regard to future growths or needs; its humble useful life 
is hunted and annihilated, without thought of its economic value; 
its birds have been viewed as mere targets and material for personal 
decoration, until our trees are dying by the million. Our vegetation 
of all kinds is being destroyed by insect-pests with which man has 
Httle power to compete. Our medicinal herbs have been uprooted 
and downrtrodden, until it is to the fields of the old world we must 
turn to meet our needs. Our ground-pine is torn from its haunts, 
the young conifers of the hills cut to serve the Christmas festival; 
our choicest wild flora is ruthlessly plucked, even from its hiding 
places, to be exhibited at shows, sold on the streets, or perhaps 
scattered by the way, when its frail petals resent the withering touch 
of mistaken love. 
The wild flora of this vast country is being desecrated from 
ocean to ocean; its sacred haunts are invaded, its frail roots lifted 
to be planted and to die in unfamihar soil. The dominion of the 
wild flower is depleted with every passing year. Who sees across 
our prairies the massed color of our prairie-flowers indigenous to 
their soil, as in time past? 
Would that all the schools of the country could take up the 
method of staying vandalism through the LaRue Homes Nature 
Lovers' League, by annual meetings, creating loving sentiment to- 
ward birds and flowers of the field: a method so simple that it is 
heartily welcomed in the busiest schools. 
Georgiana K. Holmes 
If the chairman of the National Wild Flower Preservation Com- 
mittee can give any suggestions to the Wild Flower Committees 
of the Garden Clubs it is because she is thrilled by the ideas and 
suggestions that are coming to her from these local committees 
themselves. As pride is stultifying we must not say that the National 
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