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this during his lifetime. Failing health and his work on the 
second edition of the ‘‘Illustrated Flora” prevented the realiza- 
tion of his desire, but provision is made in his will for the establish- 
ment of such a magazine by the New York Botanical Garden 
Resolved: That the Managers of the New York Botanical 
n promoting ae interest in botany and its allied sciences. 
Reso. e preceding memorial be spread upon the 
minutes of the ee and a copy transmitted to his bereaved 
amily. 
Memorial and resolutions adopted by the Board of Managers 
April 24, 1913. 
N. L. Britton, 
Secreta 
WILD PLANTS NEEDING PROTECTION* 
8. “AMERICAN OR Mountain Laure.” (Kalmia latifolia L.) 
Wirth PLaTE CXVII 
In the beginning of June, when the days are long and warm 
and the daisies and clover in the tall grass are waving in the 
breeze, when the tulip-trees are in bloom and the roses and 
paeonies fill the gardens with their perfume and color, then the 
flowers of the laurel may be found, rivalling in their delicacy of 
color and perfect symmetry of form an re showy 
blossoms of cultivation. It seems as if the climax of all that is 
dainty and lovely had been reached in this beautiful American 
wild flower. 
But where the laurel once was abundant it is rapidly becoming 
scarce or extinct. On acc aan of its ee leaves, it is 
gathered in winter for Christ other festivities; 
all the year round it is used to decorate fruit-stands and its woo 
* Illustrated by the aid of the Stokes Fund for the Preservation of Native 
Plants. 
