. St. Nicholas [serial] . of the fronds touch the ground, root, andthus form the center of a new fern plant. Please pick only a very few, if any, of thespring beauties, dogtooth violets, blood-roots,hepaticas, columbines, anemones, wild pinks,lilies, azaleas, dogwoods, viburnums, and otherof our rarer dainty woodland flowers. IF YOU TRULY LOVE THE CYPRIPEDIUMS, OR LADYS-SLIPPERS,YOU WILL NOT PICK THEM. THEY ARE FAR TOO RARE. hothouse. Once it was common, but thetemptations to those who ought to have been itsbest friends have been too strong. Dont,please dont, pick this charming orchid. The mou
. St. Nicholas [serial] . of the fronds touch the ground, root, andthus form the center of a new fern plant. Please pick only a very few, if any, of thespring beauties, dogtooth violets, blood-roots,hepaticas, columbines, anemones, wild pinks,lilies, azaleas, dogwoods, viburnums, and otherof our rarer dainty woodland flowers. IF YOU TRULY LOVE THE CYPRIPEDIUMS, OR LADYS-SLIPPERS,YOU WILL NOT PICK THEM. THEY ARE FAR TOO RARE. hothouse. Once it was common, but thetemptations to those who ought to have been itsbest friends have been too strong. Dont,please dont, pick this charming orchid. The mountain laurel is in double danger—from those who gather it for its winter decora-tion of green leaves, and from gatherers in theearly summer for its novel and beautiful littleumbrella flowers. Holly is another slow-growing plant that is picked in enormousquantities for Christmas decorations. The walking-fern, though not so beautiful asother ferns, has been nearly exterminated onaccount of its novel method of growth. The. THE FRINGED GENTIANS ARE RARELY TO BE FOUND. PLEASEDO NOT PICK THEM. TRUE NATURE-LOVERS REGARD THEM ASALMOST SACRED. 1902 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 747 Elizabeth G. Britton, in a valuable article onour Vanishing Wild-flowers (published inpamphlet form by the New York BotanicalGarden), makes this surprising statement: Several times ... I have stopped childrenand teachers who were picking flowers or break-ing branches of trees for nature study or forschool. Strange to say, they implied thatthe object for which they were to be used jus-tified the breach of the law. We agree with Mrs. Britton in hoping that we shall have for a long time yet places nearthe city wherethe wild-flow-ers may be seengrowing, andthat the chil-dren of the pub-lic schools maynot only learnto know thembyname and enjoy them,but leave them to con-tinue their growth. Our Nature and Science depart-ment is also in most hearty sympa-thy with the purpose of the Society forthe Protection
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