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similar features, are to be preserved as they existed when 

 man first discovered them — as far as may be possible. 



Personally, I most emphatically stand for the introduction of 

 nature-studies into the course of instruction in our public schools ; 

 for the maintenance of school musetmis ; for the study of elemen- 

 tary agriculture and maintenance of school gardens; for the kind 

 of exercise that the out-of-doors offers, and for a full course in the 

 elements of conservation and all that attaches thereto. I am 

 sure that the adoption of what I have here attempted to point 

 out will result in the rearing of our boys and girls in a way that 

 leads to the highest plane of good citizenship, leads to that which 

 compels respect for Americans on the part of other nations, and to 

 a type of men and women that make the best of home builders — 

 sound in mind, and having within their make-up all that nature, 

 and nature only, can give to such progressive men and women. 



Painted Trillium 



By Robert Sparks Walker 



All parts in three, is why that we 



Are trilliums called. My leaves of three, 



With petals^ sepals three, oft I 



Grow eight to sixteen inches high. 



On banks of woodland brooks all cool, 



Where turtles shun the soft toadstool! 



My leaves ovate in whorls are set, 



Each tapers to a point is met; 



My narrow sepals green you spy, 



The handsomest trilHum am I! 



With graceful curving wavy edge. 



White petals strongly marked with wedge 



Of crimson V, always is found 



In April and warm May's moist ground. 



A little later you'll remember 



To come and observe in September 



My small dark scarlet berry ripe, 



A neighbor to the Indian Pipe! 



