for the wild things which is the best guarantee for their 
preservation. There are also plans for making a continuous 
"Sky-line Trail" along the hill-tops, connecting such heights 
in different towns as Grizzly Peak and Redwood Peak. All 
these movements will have our encouragement and support in 
any way that can be helpful. The number of species of wild 
flowers growing in these parks might be materially increased, 
if the rules against picking them are enforced as thoroughly as 
they are in Muir Woods on the slopes of Tamalpais. The 
improvement is marked since the residence of a warden there, 
and the posting of notices forbidding the breaking or gather- 
ing of any growing thing. Thousands visit this grove every 
week, but the rule has not been broken, 
Anna Head. 
Berkeley, California. 
That wild flowers are the property and privilege of every j)enveb 
citizen, and are to be cherished and protected as such, was the s^h^d 
idea put forward by the Garden Club of Denver in its Flower 
spring campaign of 1921, for the preservation of Colorado's Preserva- 
gardens of mountain and plains flowers. tion 
The efforts of the Club were concentrated on a Wild Flower Qampaign 
Week. This time had also been proclaimed a national Forestry 
Week. 
One committee arranged with the School Board to have 
every teacher in the city give a brief wild flower talk during 
the week. Three evening flower-talks, illustrated by auto- 
chrome slides, were given in the largest schools. An informal 
talk was given in the large local school for girls, and one 
Parent-Teacher Association had a speaker on flowers. The 
state colleges were asked for their cooperation. This same 
committee secured valuable assistance from the head of a 
local organization similar to Boy Scouts but with younger 
members than Scouts admit. Scout Headquarters, through 
their weekly bulletin, reminded their 2,200 boys that wild 
flower care is one of their duties. 
• Another committee endeavored to secure the interest of 
the proprietors of the railroad news agencies, so that the sale of 
wild flowers, especially Columbines, on trains might be curbed, 
and colored post-card pictures of flowers substituted. 
A third committee arranged with the largest moving picture 
and vaudeville theatres to show, throughout the week, flower 
slides with brief protective suggestions. These slides were 
furnished by the Garden Cltjb. 
Permission was secured from all the large dry goods firms, 
by a fourth committee, to enclose a little slip in their monthly 
bills to patrons and their weekly pay-envelopes to employees. 
This little sheet, technically known as a "stuffer, " was 
prepared by the publicity committee. It showed excellently 
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