Bloodroot 



The following two circulars are republished here at the request of Mrs. 

 N. L. Britton. 



Wild|Flower Preservation Society of America 



The following quotations are from the pledge of the New York 

 State Conservation Commission: 



"God has lent us the earth for our life. It is a great entail. 

 It belongs as much to those who are to come after us as to us 

 and we have no right, by anything we do or neglect, to involve 

 them in any unnecessary penalties, or to deprive them of the 

 benefit which was in our power to bequeath." — Ruskin. 



We believe that "in a great democracy of free people, the pro- 

 tection of wild life and the preservation of all other natural re- 

 sources, which under-lie national prosperity and happiness, must 

 depend finally, as does the stability of the government itself, 

 upon the support and willing service of every citizen." — Theodore 

 Roosevelt. 



Some of our beautiful native plants have been completely 

 exterminated or are becoming very rare and their places being 



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