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seed should not be allowed to dry and should be planted as soon 
after collection as is ae but if stored in cool damp (not 
wet) sand or ear uring the winter it may germinate if sown 
early in the following spring. 
During the autumn of 1921, I filled a flower pot, one foot 
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pot rested in an ordinary enameled wash-basin which was kept 
filled with water and placed in a south window of my office. The 
= gentian plants germinated well that fall and the roaeites 
re planted out in the following spring. 
"Tt shall be glad to furnish, free of charge, during in autumn a 
small lot of seed of the Fringed Gentian to any flower-lover who 
will select a meadow (not a swamp) that will not be irae over 
nor pastured, and scatter the seed there. 
GrEorGE F. Norton 
PLEASANTVILLE, N. Y. 
CULTIVATION OF THE FRINGED GENTIAN 
The Fringed Gentian has been grown successfully from seed 
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disappearance of the Fringed Gentian from places where it 
used to be abundant. 
We have recently learned from the outing page of the New 
York Evening Post, that Major W. A. Welch, General Manager 
of the Palisades Interstate Park, with the assistance of his staff, 
is doing his best to preserve and increase some of the wild 
