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The Museum Building is reached by the Harlem Division of 
the New York Central and Hudson River Railway to Botanical 
Garden Station, by trolley cars to Bedford Park, or by the Third 
Avenue Elevated Railway to Botanical Garden, Bronx Park. 
Visitors coming by the Subway change to the Elevated Railway 
at 149th Street and Third Avenue. 
Lectures will be continued during the autumn. 
THE PRESERVATION OF OUR NATIVE WILD 
FLO 
We are now awakening to the realization of the fact, that some 
of our most delicate and beautiful wild flowers are fast disappear- 
ing. This has led a number of people to interest themselves in a 
movement to prevent the complete extermination of many of 
our native plants, a movement which promises to secure excellent 
society known as e Wil ower Preservation Society of 
America has been organized, and has done much good by issuing 
appeals to the general public, to nature- ceed teachers, and to 
children, asking their support in this movement. 
How flower picking may be stopped mae restricting the 
pleasure and freedom of the nature-lover, is one of the important 
questions to be solved. This can be partly done by education 
—by teaching the public to love the flowers and by discouraging 
their wanton picking and destruction. 
Years ago, people thought that flowers were only for attraction, 
and useful for decoration, or subjects for poetry and song; but 
about 1793, after Sprengel’s interesting work, in which he deals 
with their function, color and scent, man began to realize their 
greater import. Even at this period of civilization, many have 
not yet realized their value. 
What would spring be without flowers to adorn the woods and 
waysides? Imagine spring in its prime, when wild flowers adorn 
every spot, when trees and shrubs are plentiful, vieing with each 
*Aw da second prize, competition of 1909, from the Caroline and Olivia 
Phelps aye Fund for the Preservation of Native Plants 
