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What is the most interesting wildflower in your region 

 and wliy is it interesting? We would like a series of short 

 articles on this subject from our readers. Probably when 

 one thinks of it, there is no single flower that is "the most 

 interesting" but each of several have points that raise them 

 above the general vegetation in the appreciation of the stu- 

 dent. Often it is sheer purity and intensity of color, again' 

 it is delicacy of outline or perhaps the merely fortuitous cir- 

 cumstance of blooming at an opportune time or in appropri- 

 ate floral company. Still others may be mentally associated 

 with some unusually memorable occasion or call to mind 

 the picturesciue habitat in which they grow. In any event, 

 we believe notes of this kind are worth making and we in- 

 vite contributions. The old question of "What is your 

 favorite flower?" may assume a new significance if one tries 



to analyze the reasons for his preference. 



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Another spring has come and gone and with it the 

 flower-gatherer, and that misguided individual the anti- 

 flower-gatherer who would make us good l)v law. The av- 

 erage individual who inveighs against the picking of the wild- 

 flowers is in about the same position as the lady who lecture> 

 the small bov for killing birds the while she is wearing a hat 

 trimmed with bird-skins. For it cannot be denied that we 

 are a nation of flower-gatherers and few are entirely guilt- 

 less. To be sure we gather them in our own gardens for the 

 most ])art, or the florist gathers them in his and sells them to 

 us at a good stifle price on Mother's day and other festive oc- 



