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which are educating public sentiment and are instrumental in 
securing the enactment of laws that make it a misdemeanor, 
punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, to destroy trees 
under certain conditions. Societies for the protection of song and 
game birds, named after the greatest early American authority 
on birds—Audubon—have created such sentiment against the 
wanton killing of birds for their plumage or sport, that no 
thinking woman will now be seen with the body or the wing of 
a bird upon her hat, and the proverbial ‘“‘bad boy”’ is to a large 
extent ashamed to use his sling or gun 
should be the pleasure and duty of parents, and all ses 
saa children in charge to discourage the wanton and unthink- 
ing picking of flowers. I believe most of the little folk il be 
educated to a feeling of tenderness toward flowers and that a 
sense of personal responsibility i in 1 the protection of their beauty 
possession. Our young flower lovers might become true obser- 
vers, and conservationists, if sympathetically instructed in the 
fact that careless pulling of a flower dislodges the root and often 
destroys the whole plant. Directed toward the observation of 
seeds, their ripening and dissemination, children may be made 
to realize that the loss of one flower often prevents the sowing 
of hundreds of others. Flowers ae childhood: are part 
of its rightful heritage; let them fulfil their function in the lives 
of Youth; see to it that their appeal be OF LIFE not OF DESTRUC- 
TION—a call to the reverence of the beautiful things in nature; 
a means of developing those rarer qualities of gentle and kindly 
restraint. 
May we never pick wild flowers then? Yes, certainly, but 
with discrimination; with a due regard for the rights of the 
plants that bear them and with a consideration for those persons 
who will follow upon the pathway that you are enjoying. 
In the accessible neighborhood of large civic centers where 
the city’s business and manufacturing plants, together with its 
residence areas, are constantly extending, there appear to be 
but three methods only of preserving the flora natural to the 
egion in which each center lies. These may be indicated 
essentially as follows: 
