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THE PRESERVATION OF OUR NATIVE PLANTS 
n August, 1901, the Misses Olivia and Caroline Phelps Stokes 
Peele: to the New York Botanical Garden a fund of $3,000, 
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interest of which has been used for the protection of our native 
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Plants 
Various methods have been tried, i ng with a series of 
ew York Botanical Garden in 1902 and 1 he prize essays 
were writte! H. Knowlton, Ss nal Museum, 
Wash: . ; Miss Cora H. Clarke, daug! of James 
Freeman Clarke of Boston; Dr. Grout, Boys’ High School, 
r. G. Gordon Copp, j jou 
In 1910 another ant izes were offered to students 
in high schools, and these were won ae mie from the Wash- 
ington Irving High School, the Boys’ High School in Brooklyn 
and the Morris High School, Bronx. 
Finding that many of the wie Hower: were e gathered by the 
children for their teachers and th were supplied 
for the high schools of New York Ci ia. - was arranged through 
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s seal, wild geranium, wild orchids, wild ferns, and fringed 
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During the years 1912 and 1913, the accumulated income of 
the Stokes’ und was used for colored illustrations for a series of 
essays on ‘‘Wild Plants Needing Protection’ and has included 
bird’s foot violet, wild azalea, moccasin flower, dog-wood and 
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