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Fig. 63. Conuis florida, with trunk 10^ inches in 

 diameter, in pine woods four or five miles west of Bay 

 Minette, Baldwin County. July 22, 1911. 



Near cities the trees are damaged a good deal every spring 

 by vandals who tear off whole branches covered with flowers and 

 take them home to admire for a few hours, until they wilt. The 

 invention of automobiles has greatly facilitated this selfish practice, 

 which extends also to the honeysuckle (Azalea nudiflora and re- 

 lated species), which blooms at the same time and has much the 

 same distribution ; and in recent years many protests against it 

 have appeared in the newspapers of Birmingham and many cities 



