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the public the necessity of the work of wild flower preservation, 
and to create a public sentiment for codperation in this work. 
4. That the methods of teaching nature-study in public schools 
be modified, and cultivated flowers be substituted instead of wild 
flowers throughout the state. To this end I recommend that 
the matter be presented to the various boards of education with 
a view of securing an allowance sufficiently liberal to permit of a 
proper study of type forms in the school, without resorting to a 
collection of wild flowers for that purpose.* 
5. That laws should be enacted, making it a misdemeanor to 
traffic in native wild flowers. 
6. That the state and its cities secure more lands for park 
purposes, and therein furnish protected homes for many of the 
wild flowers that tend towards elimination. 
7. That the posting of signs forbidding the picking of flowers 
be encouraged and supported. 
8. That our forests be further protected, and that our legis- 
lators be apprised of the necessity of planting and developing 
new forests to a greater extent than has been done in the past. 
Our legislatures should be impressed with the need of a greater 
annual appropriation for the protection of forests against fires, 
and the number of fire wardens and equipment for fighting forest 
fires should be materially increased 
Realizing the great amount of work to be done, there is need 
for the most vigorous efforts on the part of us all to secure the 
ends desired. May the campaign so well begun be strenuously 
continued, that the world in which we live may be brighter and 
better for the labor expended in this noble work of the preserva- 
tion of our wild flowers. 
ALEXANDER M. HAMBURG. 
Boys’ HicH Scu 
ROOKLYN, ae Vor City. 
In this connection it is encouraging to note that the following wild flowers 
have been eliminated from the list of botanical supplies in the New York public 
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