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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



K\ KKVONE LOVES TO HU\T THE SHY ARBUTUS IN 

 THE EARLY SPRING WOODS AND ITS HIDING PLACE 

 BENEATH THE LEAVES IS OFTEN DIVULGED BY THE 

 INTOXICATINGLY SWEET ODOR OF THE BLOSSOMS. 



joy and comfort that no plucking or grasping posses- 

 sion could ever produce. Some happy day the world 

 will have moved forward to the point where all will 



agree with Emerson and understand his point of view, 

 will wish to know the birds without a gun and to leave 

 the wood rose on its stalk and it will be fortunate if the 

 birds and the wood roses remain to be known and loved. 

 Certainly no present or future regrets or self re- 

 straint can bring back to us vanished species. We must 

 practice restraint or restoration right away or it will be 

 too late. Fortunately, unlike the passenger pigeon, the 

 Eskimo curlew, the Labrador duck and some others, our 

 wild flowers have not yet vanished except from certain 

 restricted areas. They are merely vanishing. W'e can 



CLAYTOXIA VIRGINICA, APTLY CALLED "SPRING 

 BEAUTY" A LUXURIANT CARPET OF FRAGRANT 

 BLOSSOM IN THE WOODS. 



PINK LADY'S SLIPPER (CYPRIPEDIUM ACAUl.E). 

 LOVELIEST OF THE LADY SLIPPERS, IT IS FOUND IN 

 PROFUSION IN SWAMPY OR WET WOODS. 



hold them where they are, bring them back to areas once 

 tenanted, now barren, if we will. 



The Pilgrims found and loved the arbutus, naming it 

 "the May" in fond memory of the Hawthorne hedges at 

 home, always white and fragrant at the mayflower sea- 

 son. Today you will go far from Plymouth Rock before 

 you will find Plymouth mayflowers. Their alluring 

 scent still make the remoter portions of Pilgrim land 

 worth visiting in May, but their former abundance is 

 greatly reduced even miles away from "The Rock." 



One of the sights of the Arnold Arboretum, that 

 great outdoor museum of growing trees and shrubs, is 

 the great bank of mountain laurel that shines with such 

 wonderful beauty against the dark background of hem- 



