Have a Wild Flower Sanctuary on Your Place 
"He who 'gives sanctuary' in congenial locations to colonies of 
those beautiful wild flowers and ferns that are threatened with extinc- 
tion, gives pleasure to himself and to his friends, adds to the beauty of 
his premises and performs an agreeable duty to his country and to 
posterity. 
"Human vandals, real estate 'improvements, ' forest fires and other 
incidents of civiHzation are responsible for the almost total disappear- 
ance from our woods and fields of many of the finest American Wild- 
ings. It is not too late to save them, however — to save them as the 
Bird Sanctuaries are saving the birds. 
"You, yourself — if you have on your place a wooded slope, or 
ravine, or even a shady nook under trees, or on the north side of the 
house — may do your part. If you have a rocky hillside, a boggy 
meadow, a brook, or a pool, so much the better: you can protect more 
varieties. 
"The expenditure involved is surprisingly moderate when com- 
pared with that of ordinary gardening. In a 'Sanctuary' there is 
little construction work and little soil preparation, no manuring, or 
cultivating, no spraying, or training. Once properly estabhshed in a 
suitable locality, the plants will care for themselves and increase and 
multiply as the seasons come and go." 
Thus begins a leaflet sent out by Gillett 's Fern and Flower Farm, 
Southwick, Mass. It is a suggestion worth considering and if you will 
send for the leaflet you will find an excellent list of ferns and flowers 
for every location, soil condition and chmate. 
Wild Flower Preservation Department 
Chairman: MRS. FRANCIS C. FARWELL, 
1520 Astor Street, Chicago, and Lake Forest, Illinois 
Committee Members Miss Anna Head, Berkeley, California. 
Mrs. Harold Hack, Short Hills, N. J. Mrs. Chas. L. Hutchinson, 2 709 Prairie Avenue, 
Mrs. W. K. Wallbridge, Short Hills, N. J. Chicago, Illinois. 
Miss Delia Marble, Bedford, N. Y. Mr. Alain C. White, Litchfield, Conn. 
Mrs. W. R. Mercer, Doylestown, Pa. Mr. Walter B. Hofer, 312 Sycamore Street, 
Mrs. George Sealy, Galveston, Texas. Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Blue Prints on Plant Life 
[Mrs. Bertha E. Jaques is a widely known and successful etcher 
both in black and white and color. Her blue prints show the same 
grace of composition that make her more important work so charming. 
An exhibition of her framed blue-prints at the Art Institute, Chicago, 
suggested to one beholder an amusing decoration for a country hall or 
passage-way.] 
The principle of making blue prints is simple; its apphcation is 
complex and various. Children in kindergartens make blue prints of 
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