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flowers will create so much love for and interest in them that the 

 tendency to protect will take the place of that to destroy. 



The Woman of Thought knowing "Satan finds mischief for 

 idle hands" gave to each child a paper bag to fill with the wood's 

 soil that the plants be insured against homesickness. In this 

 first outing jack-in-the-pulpits, spring beauties, violets both 

 white and blue, and ferns with their fronds still rolled were 

 taken carefully from the ground and packed for the moving. 

 As the outing took place on an afternoon the transplanting was 

 done the following morning. The children who remembered 

 to bring the bag of leaf mold to school that morning earned the 

 privilege of going to the garden to assist, first, in selecting the 

 part of the plot best suited to each plant, which they did after 

 recalling its former location, then in breaking the soil, setting 

 the plant, and firming the earth about it. 



An interested friend found some orchids, the wild lady-slipper 

 variety, which she donoted to the garden. After telling the 

 children where she had found them, and of their environment 

 they were suitably placed. 



Only one more addition was made to the garden, that of a 

 mass of roots of the star-of-Bethlehem. 



The variety of roots, fibrous, creeping, corm and bulbous 

 were noticed ; and the two kinds found in a single plant aroused 

 speculation as to the function of each. 



The necessity for keeping the plot damp was inferred by the 

 children, and the task allotted to them. But the copious rains 

 of May proved all that was needed, and at the close of the school 

 year the transplanted wild flowers were as thrifty as though 

 in their native woods. 



So the first chapter of the wild flower garden is ended, the 

 garden only just begun. But everything must have a beginning. 



