told, even makes soup of its insect guests whereby she may be 
nourished. In my little experience I have noted that certain plants 
attract but gnats and flies, while others attract bees, butterflies, 
moths or humming birds. 
How plants travel; how they send seeds abroad in the World to 
found new colonies might be studied by "expansionists" with profit. 
Dr. Springle asserts that vice and virtue live side by side in the 
vegetable world, and that every sinner is branded as surely as was 
Cain. The Dodder, for instance, although claiming rather exalted 
kinfolk, is not far above the fungi on the family tree. 
Do we realize that it is the night-flying moth that we may thank 
for our deep Easter Lily? 
The little humble bee depends entirely upon flowers for its food 
and for the food of future generations. They are the most diligent 
of all visitors and are rarely diverted from one species of flower to 
another while on their rounds, collecting nectar and pollen, and are 
really the most important of all fertilizing agents. It has been said 
that should they perish most of our flowers would perish with them. 
Australian farmers imported clover from Europe, but the failure to 
import the little bumble bee, resulted in no seed for the next year's crop. 
Josephine Blauvelt, 
The Garden Club of Michigan. 
An Opportunity 
The department of our government naturally most interesting 
to Garden Clubs is that of agriculture and especially the Division 
of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Here a delightful paternalism is 
in operation, bringing every effort to bear in adding vegetation of 
beauty and economic value to our flora and also in improving the 
native stocks. The recent success of Mr. Coville, Government 
Botanist, in increasing the size of the blueberry to that of the cran- 
berry and encouraging its growth in acid, sandy soils where few plants 
yielding food flourish, is an example of the latter statement. 
For years the United States government has kept its agricultural 
explorers in the field, seeking new plants of economic value. Mr. 
F. N. Meyer, who has recently returned, has been nine years search- 
ing the wilds of western China, Turkestan, Manchuria, Korea, and 
the borderlands of Thibet, and many useful and beautiful plants have 
been discovered by him. 
This brings us to the department of "Foreign Seed and Plant 
Introduction," where a warm greeting awaits the Garden Club because 
the officials feel the need of just such clubs. Numbers of small 
