This entire issue of The Bulletin is an effort to answer more or 
less effectually Question i. Many of the Clubs have already started 
their patriotic work, others have put the matter in the hands of a 
committee and all are making plans for the summer campaign. 
The Bedford Garden Club will have a cannery, the Ulster Garden 
Club will raise funds by a spring Flower Market to provide a garden 
teacher for the school children of the neighborhood; the Garden 
Club of Philadelphia will help Boy and Girl Scouts and other children 
to grow vegetables and instead of holding their usual Thursday 
meetings will devote that day to the work planned. Business meet- 
ings will be held twice amonth in the gardens of members and refresh- 
ments will be limited to tea and cakes. 
These are excellent examples and indicative of what may be ex- 
pected from other Member Clubs. 
One suggestion made at the Council of Presidents was that school 
Domestic Science Kitchens might be used for canneries. In this 
connection the following Agricultural Department Bulletins are 
of the greatest value: Farmers' Bulletin No. 359 on Canning Vege- 
tables in the Home, and No. 203 on Canned Fruits, Preserves and 
Jellies. 
Another good suggestion was that at all local shows hitherto de- 
voted to flowers, prizes for vegetables be offered, thus encouraging 
gardeners to specialize in that direction, rather than to give all 
their energy and time to flowers. 
There follows Mr. Fairchild's comprehensive but brief report, in 
answer to Question 3, and Mrs. Farrand's suggestions for coping with 
Question 4, to which is added a short report of the work being done 
by the Native Wild Flower Preservation Committee. 
Report of the Committee on the Cultivation of 
Medicinal Plants 
Question 3 
Your Committee has given much attention and consideration to 
this subject since last June. 
The very conditions which brought this subject to the attention of 
the members of the Garden Club have resulted in a considerable 
volume of current literature and data of much interest and importance. 
Your Committee would say that it considers that its province in- 
volves not merely technical details of the cultivation of some suitable 
plants, but a broad and comprehensive survey of this subject in all 
its bearings and as to the work which the Garden Club may profitably 
undertake. 
