WILD FLOWER SANCTUARIES 



Now the question that meets us is — must such 

 flowers as Hepatica, Spring Beauty, Mitella, 

 Dicentra, Trailing Arbutus, and Harbinger of 

 Spring, delicate, wild, and shy, dwelling in the 

 cool, moist recesses of the woodland — must these 

 disappear when the unbroken forest that nour- 

 ished them has become a memory and the indi- 

 vidual trees are dust, or can they be brought 

 back into our lawns and gardens and thrive 

 under our care and protection ? 



Yes and No. If you have a vision — and by 

 you is meant anybody — a vision of wildlings 

 standing in rows along your garden walk, dis- 

 miss it at once. They never will, they will die 

 first. But they will gladly and thankfully 

 come, they will joyfully troop not alone in rows 

 but in companies, if only you will make them a 

 home in which they can live. Their needs are 

 few, but these few are vital: a moist, shaded 

 home, with plenty of humus in the soil and 

 plenty of leaves for a bed-cover. In addition 

 there should be protection from grazing animals 

 and from the man with a rake. Neither sheep, 



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