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The American Forestry Association published an editorial in 
their November magazine on this subject, pledging their hearty 
cooperation in any campaign against these obnoxious blots on 
the landscape. 
Mr. Robert Pyle of The American Rose Society writes' 
Of course we are interested in the campaign you are waging on 
disfiguring Billboards and promise full publicity. 
F ROM Florida comes an account of work done in 16 counties 
of that state as a result of the stimulus of National Garden 
Week, that is little short of amazing. So inspiring is the work 
accomplished in just one year, so comprehensive is their pro¬ 
gramme, that each state in the Union, every garden club or 
woman’s or man’s club, or Chamber of Commerce would do 
well to follow their example. Throughout Florida “Beautifica¬ 
tion Commissions” have been formed—backed up by clubs 
and Boards of Trade. 
One of the first activities determined upon was to “ require 
removal of all advertising signs along country highways,” author¬ 
izing civic bodies to remove them wherever found and instructing 
road gangs to do so, requiring the approval and consent of road 
commissioners before any additional signs could be set up. 
One phase of the work done by the Committee on Beautifica¬ 
tion of the Jacksonville district has been a direct-to-the-adver- 
tiser campaign for removal of signs, coupled with a publicity 
campaign in the newspapers, illustrated by pictures showing 
actual conditions. In two counties alone in Florida 5,000 ob¬ 
jectionable signs have been removed! And following their re¬ 
moval an intensive tree planting campaign was begun. One 
of their leaflets urges, “Ten thousand fine trees a year for ten 
years along the main highway,” while another issued by the 
Civitan Club of Jacksonville not only urges substitution of trees 
for billboards but suggests that the county should establish a 
nursery on the county farm to produce plant material for road 
planting. 
Most highway sign-advertising is poor advertising, resulting 
in actual loss to the advertiser as compared with results had he 
spent a similar amount in legitimate newspaper advertising. 
In this campaign, the aid of each reader of The Garden 
Magazine is needed. If each individual will take up this 
matter locally, write his state Highway Commissioner, County 
Road Commission, local Board of Trade—urge each club of 
which he or she is a member to help whole-heartedly in the war 
on this rapidly growing evil, the movement will sweep across the 
country with such force as to level each one of these ob¬ 
jectionable obstructions. 
T HIS month we take pleasure in welcoming The Agassiz As¬ 
sociation as a cooperating member of The National Garden 
Association. Formed to promote the advancement of science 
and to arouse an interest in nature, the Agassiz group of workers 
stands ready to help with community betterment projects, and 
for this reason is now allying itself with the National Garden 
Association—devotees both of the God of Out-of-doors, setting 
up no boundary walls, glad to serve individual gardener and 
garden club the country over. 
Of the many pleasant phases of such work which come to the 
National Garden Association none seem more reproductive of 
genuine good than the active cooperation of these many so¬ 
cieties working each in its own way for conservation of our na¬ 
tural treasures and to spread that “spirit of gardening” which 
makes for civic uplift and beauty. 
A NOTHER notable conservation victory has just been 
L achieved by the Wild Flower Preservation Society, whose 
Illinois chapter has been for several years advocating the pas¬ 
sage of a law protecting certain rapidly disappearing wild 
flowers. We are glad to announce that at length this bill has 
been enacted and thus lllinios becomes the third state to put 
its wild plant life under legal protection—something that each 
state must ultimately do. 
T HESE bulletins of interest to every gardener may be had 
upon application: 
Greenhouse Heating, Community Bird Refuges, Home Storage of 
Vegetables, Permanent Fruit and Vegetable Gardens. 
Address all communications to 1'he National Garden Association, Garden Gity, L. I. 
lNatio 
Garden Week for 1924 
April 2 otk— 26 tk 
A PLACE OF EVER CHANGING ENCHANTMENTS 
IRENE AVERY JLDSON 
M Y GARDEN is a gay place, 
A joy-breathing, play place, 
All the brilliant flower folk 
Bathing in the sun. 
My garden is a strange place 
A mystic, ever-change place: 
Magical its treasures 
Sun and rain have won. 
And aiways ’tis a dream place, 
Beguiling, lure-supreme place: 
Love, smiling, roams its pathways 
When each day is done. 
