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A Fifty Acre Field of Asters, where Our Aster Seed is grown. 
The National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild 
This is a National Association whose object is to carry brightness 
into the lives of the poor, and to bring them in touch with God’s world 
of nature. The work began by a systematic collection of flowers on a 
certain day each week, in a certain village. These flowers were arranged 
in nosegays, taken to a nearby city and distributed in the wards of a 
hospital. 
As the distributors carried their baskets through the streets from the 
station to the hospital, the children followed and begged for “just one 
flower, lady”. The street-sweepers, dray-men, and the conductors on 
street cars gazed with longing eyes at the flowers, and soon extra bunches 
were added for these street requests, and so the demand grew, and grew, 
until distributing points were necessary for the more systematic distribu¬ 
tion of the flowers. 
Other people heard of and saw the “Flower Ladies” and started the 
work in other villages for supplying other cities. So great was the 
appreciation and gratitude that individual effort was not equal to the 
demand for more flowers, more villages to provide them, and more points 
to distribute them to meet the ever growing demand. 
To this end the National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild was or¬ 
ganized, with National headquarters at No. 70 Fifth Ave., N. Y. The 
various Express companies were asked to aid in the delivery of the 
flowers. They agreed to carry for a distance of 100 miles, 20 pounds of 
Fruit, Flowers, Jelly, etc., bearing the yellow label issued by the Guild and 
countersigned by the presidents of the companies. 
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