Mrs. Don C. Porter has accepted the Chairmanship of the 
Wild Flower Preservation Committee for the Pasadena Garden 
Club. Her committee is publishing monthly articles in the local 
papers, giving the names of plants blooming during the month, 
their historic, medicinal and other values with the necessity for 
their preservation. They have also established a "Nature Corner" 
in the public libraries and at Vroman's Book Store, where lists 
of wild flowers for the month, with their colored photographs, 
loaned from the libraries, may be seen. They are encouraging 
school children in many ways. 
Fanny Day Farv^ll. 
Garden Club of Illinois. 
Correspondence 
July, 1921. 
Dear Mrs. Sloan: 
The American Federation of Arts, 1741 New York Avenue, 
Washington, has just sent me their announcement of "Travel- 
ling Exhibitions," in which appears the notice of the one on 
Landscape Architecture which I collected for the American 
Society of Landscape Architects. You may have seen it when 
it was hung with the Architectural League exhibit in April. 
There w^as an excellent, if perhaps too flattering, review of it 
in the May Bulletin. It occurs to me that some of the Garden 
Clubs might like to help the cause of education by arranging 
to have these garden photographs locally exhibited. This could 
be easily arranged wdth Miss Mechlin. Perhaps some announce- 
ment might go to the next Bulletin as a sort of foot-note, 
saying that the exhibit, of which account was given on Page 
28, May 1921 Bulletin, could be secured temporarily by com- 
municating with the Federation. 
Very sincerely yours, 
Fletcher Steele 
Extract from Mrs. Thome's letter. 
"I do not think that anything has been said of the Addenda 
and Corrections to the List. I am delighted to have you say 
that the leaflets were sent out in June, and that a frank 
expression of opinion in the Bulletin regarding the value of 
our experiment would be welcomed by the Committee. Is the 
experiment worth while? Have gardens been visited agreeably 
and comfortably both to owner and visitor, and do the member 
clubs wish a continuance of the plan? The Committee hopes 
that the Presidents will bear in mind that the efforts of the 
Committee are always at their disposal along any line 
that they may suggest to enlarge the scope of the work, or to 
change anything not acceptable to the members." 
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