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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



BLOODROOT {SANCUINARIA CANADENSIS) ONE OF 

 THE MOST STRIKING AND EARLIEST OF THE WILD 

 FLOWERS OF THE WOODS A FAMILIAR SIGHT WITH 

 ITS WAXY BLOSSOMS AND DEEP RED STEMS. 



lock hill. That it exists within the city limits of Bos- 

 ton is due, of course, only to the fact that it has police 

 protection. Let that vigilance be relaxed for but a single 

 day in blossom time and let word go forth that it might 

 be plucked with impunity, it is easy to believe that 

 neither root nor branch would be allowed to remain. 



To the perfectly human desire to get possession of 

 beauty would be added also the perfectly human com- 

 petitive instinct, to get it before the other fellow did 

 and it would be got while the getting was good. 



The New England country in regions more remote 

 from large populations still shows massed mountain sides 

 of laurel, but the human desire for beauty and the com- 

 petitive instinct are having their effect on these. The 

 unprotected laurel within easy reach of any large city is 

 gone and now the automobile is placing that of the 

 slopes of Wachusett, of the mountains of southern New 

 Hampshire, of Vermont and of the Berkshire Hills 

 within the reach of thousands. The automobile now 

 carries the city to the country and brings it back again 

 l^etween dawn and dark. Too often, alas, it comes back 



THE SPRING ORCHIS (ORCHIS SPECTABILIS) IS ONE 

 OF OUR LOVELY NATIVE ORCHIDS, WHICH MUST 

 BE PROTECTED AGAINST EXTERMINATION BY MIS- 

 GUIDED ENTHUSIASTS. 



LUPINUS PERENNIS, OR WILD LUPINE THOSE TALL 

 AND GRACEFUL STALKS OF RICH BLUE. 



laden with what was on the mountainside beauty superla- 

 tive, but is when it reaches the city only a tattered rem- 

 nant to be too often consigned to the ash can on ar- 

 rival. 



The thought here should not be misunderstood. The 

 love of the wood rose is rightfully in all our hearts. 

 That city motor cars can take city dwellers to it in a day 

 is a boon that the genius of modern civilization has 

 lately conferred and that is worth much. It is necessary 

 that with privilege should go the power of self-restraint 

 that teaches all not only to love beauty but to seek 

 possession of it only in moderation that others, as worthy 

 lovers of it, may equally enjoy it. 



How to bring this about where wild flowers are left 



