i. Teach the nature study teachers to protect and not collect 
the native plants. 
2. Educational talks to school children. 
3. Co-operate with an existing society if adequately organized, 
or create a special department for Garden Club work. 
4. Endeavor by example to discourage the use of Christmas 
greens for decoration, and so reduce the demand for them. 
5. Endeavor to secure the co-operation of the florists by appearing 
before their meetings and asking their help. 
6. Employ legislation when the sentiment of the country is 
aroused. 
At its Annual Meeting in New York in August the Society of 
American Florists will be glad to confer on this subject, with a Com- 
mittee from the Garden Club. Such a conference should have 
excellent and far-reaching results. 
Beatrix Farrand. 
Report 
The Committee on the Preservation of Native Wild Flowers asks 
the help of all the Garden Clubs in carrying on its work. 
In our native flora we have a rich posssession capable of yielding a 
harvest of joy. Let us conserve it for ourselves and for those who 
follow us. 
Everywhere we see careless destruction of natural beauty. Towns 
spread without forethought or plan over open spaces which later 
are wished for in vain. Farmers fail to realize that beauty is an asset 
with a money value. Motor parties pass through the spring loveliness 
and leave behind them a desolation. Well meaning people uproot 
wild flowers, destroy next year's seeds, all unconscious of the havoc 
they have wrought. Already many favorite species must be protected 
or become extinct. 
What is to be done? The Committee submits the following 
suggestions : 
1. Posters. A variety of these may be had free of charge, to 
be put up in hotels, teahouses, railroad stations, summer resorts and 
so on, as well as for use by private owners for the protection of their 
land. If everyone would take these posters along when touring they 
might be widely distributed at little cost or trouble. 
2. Wild Flower Reserves. It is desirable that tracts of land be 
secured as sanctuaries for wild flowers. These may be large parks, 
or small portions of waste land which owners would be willing to 
turn over to the care of a Committee. If the latter, the owner might 
