and every other possible avenue of publicity for this propaganda. 
We should be glad to have all data with regard to flowers, plants, 
shrubs and trees, which need special protection in any locality sent 
to the National Chairman, who will have similar pamphlets printed 
for distribution. 
Signs, tacked to trees on highways and nearby woods, have been 
put up by one Club. All of us know the harm that the careless motor- 
ist does to early blossoms, flowering trees, etc., and we suggest the 
Hberal use of these signs. They can be procured at small cost through 
Mrs. Britton, of the New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx Park, N. Y. 
We want pictures, photographs and slides of wild flowers. We 
want herbaria to lend. We want lecturers, and we want people 
who can talk simply and persuasively to the children in the schools. 
WiU you ask all whom you suspect of hiding this talent to come 
forward and help your Club and others? Please send the National 
Chairman the names of these talented ones. Clubs are begging for 
such people, who are accessible to their neighborhoods. 
In travehng through the West Indies this winter the writer was 
glad that she had even a small knowledge of Botany, but also reaHzed 
what a greater knowledge would have meant to her in the enjoyment 
of the beautiful growing things about her. Our Garden Clubs 
should help us, through lectures, exhibits, and perhaps classes in 
Botany, to know something more of this truly exciting study, so 
that our country's out-of-doors, as well as other countries out-of- 
doors, may mean more than just climate and golf, 
(Mrs. Francis C.) Fanny Day Farwell, 
National Chairman 
WILD FLOWERS 
Ye field flowers ! the garden eclipse you 'tis true : 
Yet wildlings of nature, I dote upon you, 
For ye waft to me summers of old, 
When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight, 
And when daisies and buttercups gladdened my sight, 
Like treasures of silver and gold. 
Thomas Campbell 
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