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pioneer. It is a great pleasure to see so many 

 of our native plants now figuring in the cata- 

 logues, although but a short experience will 

 teach the average grower that very many of 

 the shy, wild things will not ' accommodate 

 themselves to new conditions. The appalling 

 waste of our forests caused by the greed of 

 lumbermen ; the devastation worked by fire 

 or by the needs of settlers ; the cutting off of 

 water supplies ; the draining of marshes ; the 

 reclamation of sandy wastes, and, alas ! the 

 cruel thoughtlessness of flower hunters all 

 these are hurrying on the day when Americans 

 will be forced to look in the glossaries 

 made by the editors of their time, of the 

 poets of ours, to find out what was meant 

 by Indian pipes, or Quaker ladies, or May- 

 flowers. 



Mayflowers ! Of no garden but that of 

 Nature's most thought-filled planting, half 

 hidden by last year's fallen leaves, neigh- 

 boured by pipsissiwa, by crimson-berried 

 wintergreen, or partridge-berry, by curling 

 wreaths and plumes of ground pine, it is the 

 flower that made the exile of our forefathers 

 bearable ; the truest of all Americans, the 



