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not to mention frequent hurricanes. This protection from fire 
protected from fire, it has evidently an enemy in the rodents 
which one one land: Fruits are ee by the apillicns 
every year, b 
only about imc to feplace those that die. It would be 
eeerete to see what would happen if the animals that eat 
k. 
Botanical exploration up to 1916 has revealed two bundred 
and forty-one kinds of plants, from the mushrooms 
rt , 
fered with, and suggestions for the future treatment of the res- 
it a "hh eea advanced. The only rational plan 
suggested is to keep the key intact. Royal Pal ammock is 
unique; therefore, for the sake of science and the sake of art. 
do ange it, e t to restore parts already devastated 
Too much to favor its natural destruction in t ture has 
already been accomplished. s learing, or even a fallen 
tree that pening in the ock roof, m um 
torms. 
the first concern on the part of the custodians should be to replace 
* Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 17: 41. 
