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bery and flowers. In Orange County, beds of Petunias have 
been set out with more than half a million plants in them, and 
the Beautification Committee in that county has two nurseries 
with more than 30,000 plants ready for setting out along the 
highways. Such is the broad program begun and whole¬ 
heartedly endorsed by the entire state—a challenge to every 
other state in the Union! 
Preserving the Playgrounds of our People 
N O ORGANIZATION as a whole is more keenly interested 
in beautification and conservation projects than the Amer¬ 
ican Forestry Association, with its many efficient state branches. 
The Connecticut Association, with its 1,000 members, has 
raised a fund of nearly $5,000 for the purchase of a forest to be 
given to the state as a State Forest Park, and they are advocat¬ 
ing the establishment of 200,000 acres of state-owned forests as 
town forests. 
In New York State the Association is very active, and every¬ 
one interested in conserving trees and replanting deforested areas 
should get in touch with this alert organization. In Chautauqua 
County, alone, 10,000 young trees have been set out, the trees 
being provided by the state. 
Few people realize just how intimately the products of the 
forest enter into their everyday lives. Nor do they realize the 
deep-seated need of conservation and reforestation. The 
Pennsylvania Forestry Department is issuing booklets of value 
and interest on these subjects that tell also of the Public Camp 
Grounds in the State Forests. “The State Forests are the 
people’s playgrounds,” says R. Y. Stuart, Secretary of the 
Department. “They are wide open for hunting and fishing 
and dotted with attractive play places.” Does this seem a far 
cry from a garden? Not at all, as is evidenced by the close 
cooperation of this department with garden clubs in the state, 
aiding with the planting of trees on hillsides, along highways, 
and on school grounds. We will gladly forward to this de¬ 
partment the names of any interested in this work. 
Lectures and Leaflets for Garden Week 
A T BUTTE, MONT., the Rocky Mountain Garden Club has 
. arranged with the motion picture theatres to show films 
of attractive gardens, and are editing garden sections in three 
newspapers. To aid every club in the state, 9 illustrated garden 
lectures have been prepared by the Art in the Home and Garden 
Division of the Federated Clubs. To secure further information, 
write to Mrs. Warder I. Higgins, Atherton Place, Butte, Mont. 
Of interest to every club or locality in Florida is the Illustrated 
Lecture on Highway Beautification prepared by the State 
Committee and which will be available to everyone desiring to 
further this movement. To secure information, please write to 
B. C. Riley, Director of General Extension Division, Gainesville, 
Fla. 
Bulletins to be had: 
Programs and Leaflets for National Garden Week, 
Constitutions, By-Laws and Programs for Garden Clubs, 
Flower Shows, An Enemy of the Greenhouse Rose, The City Home 
Garden, Farm Garden in the North, Pruning, Asparagus, Permanent 
Fruit and Vegetable Gardens. 
NATIONAL GARDEN WEEK IN YOUR TOWN 
Do not fear to do this lest you be alone in this work. You will find 
that every Garden Club, every Women’s Club, The National Associa¬ 
tion of Boy Scouts, American Legion, National Congress of Mothers, 
and Parent-Teachers Association have all agreed to help. All that 
you will have to do is to start the ball rolling. 
Ask every local club in your community to work with you—every 
fraternal organization, church society, Campfire Girls, Girl and Boy 
Scouts organizations. Make vour campaign such as will enlist the active 
assistance of every individiual. 
First—determine clearly what you wish to do in your locality. 
Decide what is the worst feature of your town; plan to abolish it. 
Decide what is the best feature, plan to preserve it. 
A very good plan is to have home owners on each residence street 
select a distinctive flower and feature this in every garden on that 
street. When these flowers are at their best, the residents could hold 
a flower show. This would make a succession of flower shows through¬ 
out the season. 
Urge Zoning laws to protect your famous buildings and residence 
streets from invasion bv business houses. 
Stress welfare plans for your city’s congested districts, urging parks, 
play places and gardens. 
Destroy breeding places for flies and mosquitoes. Start a Junior 
Civic League to aid in this. 
Get noted speakers to address civic meetings on beautifying. 
To arouse enthusiasm, arrange for pageants and flower shows. 
Cooperate with the railroad to beautify your local station. 
Maintain booths in city railroad stations where commuters can leave 
their surplus flowers for the city’s sick. 
Get your physicians to give health-talks on the benefit of exercise 
and the necessity of vegetables in the diet. Gardens supply both. 
Get your Fire Commissioners to inaugurate a citywide clean-up 
campaign! To make a flower grow where the rubbish-pile grew before 
lessens fire risks! 
Get your ministers to help by preaching the gospel of beauty and 
the peace and contentment to be found in “God’s magic common things, 
—sunshine and fresh air” and the miracles wrought with mere earth 
and seeds. 
If every individual in every town of every state would work to 
improve and beautify his community, we should have the most inspir¬ 
ing spectacle of history—an entire nation working to make life better 
and more beautiful! 
PHhat You Do Helps Your Town and JHhat Your Town Does Helps the Nation 
Address all communications to The National Garden Association, Garden City, N. Y. 
