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ADDENDUM. 



The suggestion made in the Introduction that Alpine flowers 

 should not be ruthlessly gathered is shown not to be needless 

 by the last Report of an Association^ formed in Geneva 

 about four years ago, for the protection of Swiss plants — a 

 society to which the annual subscription is only two francs, 

 and which well deserves the support of all lovers of the 

 beautiful flowers it seeks to guard. 



It is high time that something were done^ or the rarer 

 species will entirely disappear, and those now common will 

 become rare. The markets of Geneva, Lausanne, and 

 Vevey, receive once or twice a week enormous quantities 

 of plants from the surrounding and even more distant 

 mountains, many of them not only gathered but take7i up by 

 the roots ; and this is one thing to which the Association 

 particularly wishes to call attention and hopes greatly to 

 check. 



Then, collectors are sent out from large foreign horti- 

 cultural houses, who know what is most beautiful and 



