Committee is full of that doubtful virtue — but we can say that we 
are grateful to a degree to the Clubs for their co-operation, and are 
greatly stimulated and encouraged by the reports that have come to 
us of work planned, or already in progress, during the last nine 
months. 
Movements of national importance are under way, and we are 
having a part in them. The Wild Flower Committee was asked to 
participate in the Conservation Conference in Des Moines, which 
was called the most important Conference for National Conservation 
ever held in the United States. We were able to help in bringing 
that Conference about. The results of this gathering, of vitally in- 
terested people were reported by Mr. Van Wyck, representative 
from the Department of the Interior at Washington, in the March 
number of the Bulletin. The Resolution presented at the Confer- 
ence, by the Garden Club of America, through Mrs. Charles L. 
Hutchinson, is given in full in the report of the Lake Geneva 
Garden Club. This resolution was accepted at the Conference with 
enthusiasm. 
Some of the many excellent suggestions given in the reports are 
worthy of special commendation. 
The LaRue Holmes Nature Lovers' League has been tried suc- 
cessfully for fifteen years, with a result of a membership of over 
thirty thousand school children. Mrs. Holmes' preceding article 
reveals her object, and the pamphlets which will be sent through 
the National Wild Flower chairman will tell of the simple methods 
used. Can we do better than co-operate with Mrs. Holmes and have 
a Wild Flower member in each local Club to organize these leagues 
in the local schools? Several Clubs have already decided to under- 
take this. 
One Club has started a seasonable exhibit in the Public Library 
of the town, showing photographs, flowers (one specimen only), 
grasses, etc.; with short talks at intervals. This seems to us a very 
practical, all-the-year-round plan for education, reaching as it will 
all sorts and kinds of people. 
Preserves, whether pubHc or private, belonging to state, county 
or individual, we are always trying to further. The portion of Fair- 
mount Park, Philadelphia, which has been set aside for wild flowers, 
under Garden Club members, is an experiment which we shall 
watch with great interest. One vigilant committee has taken volun- 
tary oversight of a pubHc preserve in their locahty. They found fine 
trees neglected, and had them cared for — a splendid service easy to 
perform for our towns. 
The Connecticut Zone Committee has akeady prepared pamphlets 
for wide distribution on the flowers which are in greatest danger of 
extermination in that State. This Chairman is using the newspapers 
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