A report has been sent in from the Millbrook Club and the Bed- 
ford Club, and a monograph from Mrs. William Verplanck 
through the Garden Club of Orange and Dutchess Counties. These 
are being condensed for reference, and, if approved, a summary will 
be sent to the Bulletin, or the material simply kept on hand for any 
Club that wishes advice. If the blanks are taken and filled out, the 
Committee can see automatically which Club is in need of any in- 
formation it may possess. The Committee had these blanks, 
which may be had on application to the Chairman, printed. They 
will be sold at cost to the committees, and members are asked to 
remember that the pests for which they have found no remedy are 
wanted, and form as much a part of the work as the remedies. 
The pressing demands of the time keep many away from their 
gardens, but the Committee would suggest that this work, if seriously 
done, is capable of being a help towards food preparedness. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Lucilla C. Austen, Chairman. 
Cockeysville, Md. 
An excellent report giving the laws of seventeen states in regard 
to planting and beautifying roadsides has been compiled and presented 
by Mrs. Hughes, president of the Gardeners of Montgomery and 
Delaware Counties. Unfortunately this report is too long to publish, 
but desired information on the subject may be had from Mrs. William 
H. Hughes, Morris Ave., Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
Conservation for Beauty 
It would be impossible to overstate the ugliness of the present 
outlook of the world. Hideous passions are rampant and triumphant. 
In merciful activities one can for a time find surcease from mental 
suffering. In the energy of self sacrifice one can forget personal 
anxiety or the national danger. But there come hours when the brain 
refuses to think, when the heart is worn out with sympathy and pain. 
Something simple, that needs no thought; something lovely, that 
makes no demands, must be found as anodyne or tonic. 
For such relief we turn instinctively to our gardens. 
But, alas! where is the peace that was to descend upon us like a 
dove? Here, also, we find doubt and unrest. How can we carry out 
out plans for enlargement and for experiment at the cost of practical 
patriotism spelled these days by the words "conservation" and 
"economy"? How can we buy even fine seed while the little children 
of fair France and bruised Belgium go frightened, naked and hungry? 
