plants or flowers, or when a bird sings outside the window. 
His children raise Strawberry plants for home consumption. 
Through the co-operation of tlie local nurseryman, Geraniums 
are slipped by the thousands and as spring approaches the 
local florists sell seeds to the children, who, after raising the 
seedlings, sell them at very low prices. In the autumn these 
seedlings are rescued, cared for and later disposed of. 
The following story will illustrate the waste of seedlings : 
A man in an Illinois town, whose occupation was sweeping the 
village streets, found Elm seeds among the refuse. As he took 
the sweepings to the dump, — an empty lot on the outskirts of 
the town, he threw his sweepings into straight lines, covering 
them over with a little soil. Today hundreds of fine young 
Elms are his reward. 
In California, a splendid strong movement is waking up the 
Pacific Coast to what is in jeopardy there. In Texas, our Zone 
Chairman tells of the fields of the marvelous blue four-foot 
high Campanula which, with other Texas flowers the nursery- 
man is collecting in immense quantities. 
Colorado finds her state flower, the Blue Columbine, in 
imminent danger, and so the story goes. Our garden flowers 
were all wild flowers once. We cherish them, improve them, 
and constant developments are the result. But if we lose these 
blossoms from which all the beauty of our gardens eame, many 
of us feel that the loss will not be compensated for by the 
garden flowers. 
Are v/e, then, "Wild People," as we admit we are some- 
times playfully called by those less enthusiastic in their 
interest in the native plants? Perhaps we are, but this we 
know — unless we ask the school children and the grown-up 
thoughtless people to help us, we shall lose much of what 
makes the earth beautiful. Then we shall be a people without 
a birthright, and wild indeed. 
Fanny Day Far well. 
Park The report of the Berkeley Park Commission for the past 
Commission year is most interesting, as it shows a rapid development of 
interest in wild parks, as distinguished from play-grounds. A 
series of parks, still with the natural growth of evergreen Oak, 
Buckeye, Bay-tree and Christmas Berry, as well as some native 
ferns and wild flowers, has recently been acquired. One canyon 
has been leased and the necessary work upon it done by 
energetic residents of the neighborhood. Winding trails are 
cut through these tracts, the streams are only cleared a little, 
and their banks planted with Ferns, and crossed here and there 
with rustic bridges. All this wild beauty, permanently 
preserved and made accessible and attractive with big fire- 
places for moonlight suppers, will certainly cultivate that love 
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