of these cards to Club members and they would automatically be 
paid for by those who use them. The Committee does not strongly 
approve of this scheme, however, as it imposes an added penalty on 
those who are good enough to take their time for color chart work 
which will go to the benefit of all the members of the Club in the 
long run. 
Fletcher Steele, Chairman, 
Mrs. Francis King, 
Mrs. Charlotte Cowdrey Brown, 
Mrs. Thomas Motley. 
The following report of the Wild Flower Committee was presented Wild 
by the Chairman, Mrs. Francis C. Farwell: Flower 
Our Committee is nine months old, and in the midst of its first Committee 
working season. We have six Zone Chairmen, whose duty it is to lead 
a campaign of education through the Garden Clubs. Thirty-seven 
Clubs have active Wild Flower Committees and are giving us five 
dollars yearly. These Committees, through the children, are having 
May Day exercises, springtime hikes, and La Rue Holmes Leagues. 
Some Clubs are developing preserves, others holding exhibitions 
in pubHc buildings. Such an exhibit was held last week in the lobby 
of the Union- Trust Company in Cincinnati. 
The Connecticut Committee is circulating pamphlets on the 
flowers of the State most needing protection, sending these to the 
Garden Clubs, Boy and Girl Scouts, etc., while many newspapers 
have accepted articles. The National Committee has distributed six 
thousand pamphlets. 
At the most important conservation conference ever held, that at 
Des Moines in January, the Committee was represented by four of its 
members, and a resolution was presented in the name of the Garden 
Club of America, that there be a National "Conservation Day." 
This resolution received an enthusiastic vote. 
We have a Wild Flower Department in the Bulletin, for which 
we should be glad to receive timely contributions. 
The results of our work must be slow, for it is a gradual evolution 
that we are seeking. We remember that an appreciation of Nature 
or Beauty is not a gift, but an achievement. 
At the conclusion of the above report, Mrs. Farwell read a message 
from the President of the United States proclaiming the week of 
May 22-28, 1921, as Forest Protection Week, and upon motion of Mr. 
Benjamin Fairchild, a Member-at-Large, seconded by Mrs. Bayard 
Henry, of the Garden Club of Philadelphia, it was 
_ Resolved: That the Garden Club of America in annual conven- 
tion wishes to express to President Harding its appreciation of his 
action in the proclamation of Forest Protection Week, and to pledge 
its efforts in promoting the purposes of this dedication. 
