WILD FLOWER SANCTUARIES 



horse, nor cow should be allowed to enter a 

 wild flower enclosure. A wood open to 

 grazing animals is not a sanctuary; it is a place 

 of execution. Of all enemies of this rare wild 

 life, the greatest and most implacable is the 

 man with a rake under orders to "tidy up." 

 He is worse than a herd of Jerseys. 



One point it seems almost impossible to em- 

 phasize enough, and that is the necessity for 

 shade. Since the beginnings of their created 

 time these plants have lived in the shade; an 

 unbroken forest clothed the continent from the 

 Atlantic coast to the prairies of the West. In 

 the spring they swing into the race while the 

 trees are still dormant, and with many the bloom- 

 ing period is past before the forest leaves are 

 mature. Hence, we see that their sunshine is 

 the sunshine of March and April, by the end of 

 May it is gone, and all summer long they live 

 in a green shaded world. These plants can no 

 more bear the direct rays of the summer sun 

 than a white man can live and work in the un- 

 tempered tropics. Whether it is heat rays or 



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