MIDSUMMER ALONG A NEW ENGLAND RIVER 



In field work let us replace the collecting can and our old desire for possession with notebook, sketchbook, and 

 camera— especially with "detective work" to see what plants are doing. How do they overcome mechanical obstacles in 

 their way, how attract and receive insects, how scatter seeds ? How do they vary in shade and sun, with what other 

 plants are they struggling for space, into what communities are they organized ? What are the most striking examples 

 of plants in process of migration, marching year by year toward the center of pond or moor, filling up hollows, making 

 soil in rocky places — everywhere slowly changing the face of the earth? What are some of the wild flowers especially 

 endangered by man's drainage of swamp land, removal of forests, and cultivation of new land ? Man has 'dominion 

 over all the earth." Think what we shall do with that dominion 



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