drawn cuts of an upstanding, live Columbine and a forlorn, 
broken dead one, and bore the words : 
Help ' ' Our State Flower is dying out ! ! Help save the Columbine ! 
What good is a big bunch of faded Wild Flowers ? None ! 
Wild flowers will be crushed and dead if you carry home 
a quantity. 
Enjoy them where they grow. 
Leave their roots in the ground. 
Leave plenty of them to go to seed. 
Then you will have beautiful mountain gardens every year. 
Show the other fellow that taking an armful of flowers is 
stealing from his o"^ti pleasure in future summers." 
Transportation companies running automobiles through 
Denver's mountain parks, and some of the mountain resort 
hotels are asking for these slips for distribution. They 
recognize wild flowers as one of the assets of their business. 
The Publicity Committee's further work was with the 
newspapers, which proved well disposed toward the cause. 
They gave generous space to the subject and to the campaign 
itself in their news sections ; in special articles by members of 
the committee as well as by regular staff writers; in editorials; 
and, most effective of all for the unthinking, in cartoons. 
Community Service aided in publicity work. Newspaper 
editors throughout the state were urged through the Western 
News Union to assist, and several of them complied. 
Every loyal Coloradoan delights in taking visitors to 
some point of vantage to overlook the glory of our towering 
peaks. The next step in the conquest of these travellers from 
other states, is to show them the stately silver and Engelmann 
Spruce, the great yellow Pines, the dainty Aspen groves, the 
Anemones or Columbines in the shade, or a whole hillside 
lavender with Penstemons or blue with Larkspur in the sun- 
shine. 
Jane B. Benedict. 
Autumn Flower Show. 
American The show held at the Pennsylvania Hotel, New York, on 
Dahlia September 27th-30th, by the American Dahlia Society, was the 
Society largest and finest in its history. It was indeed a colorful sight. 
Show and some of the staging was a distinct improvemeut over last year. 
Mr. Scheepers duplicated his display of Judge Marean's 
Dahlias exactly as last year, and ]\Ir. Vincent, the president, had 
a gigantic pyramid of his brown-orange Patrick O'Mara — a 
thousand or so. 
There was much speculation as to the outcome of an offer of 
Mr. Manda 's, a prize of $100, pitting his Mandaianna against the 
world. A dark horse won, of course, a potted plant of Scarlet 
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