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but, as the flower market must be supplied, there will arise a 
greater demand for hot-house flowers be this will mean an in- 
crease in the number of hot-h y that will more than 
offset the loss of employment eee by the enactment of 
such a law. 
The other, and more difficult cause to combat, is the picking of 
the flowers by the public wherever and whenever they find them. 
These people can be divided into several groups. First come 
those who pick the wild flowers just for the fun of picking them. 
They do not take them home, nor do they enjoy them much 
when they pick them. They throw them away. I have often 
seen a field of buttercups crossed by a path where somebody 
who had gone through a short time before had torn off every 
flower he could conveniently reach without going off his path, 
evidently just for the fun of it, for the buttercups were all lying 
about where he had cast them away as soon as he had picked 
them. A person who did this to buttercups would not hesitate to 
do the same to every other wild flower he came across. The only 
measure that would help in such a case is the education of the cul- 
prit as to the damage he is doing when he thoughtlessly tears out 
the flowers in this way; for nobody would do this intentionally. 
Second are those who, in the case of perennials, are not satis- 
fied with the flower alone, but tear out the roots and stem also. 
A good example of this is the damage done to trailing arbutus. 
Jack-in-the-pulpits, although still quite abundant, are evidently 
on the decline because people, not satisfied with the flower, insist 
on taking the corm also. As in the previous case, about the only 
appreciate the eau of the hes and therefore, when they 
come upon tt n -y do not hesitate to pick it. 
Perhaps a think, Heres isa ae flower. In a few days 
it will wither and be beautiful no longer; then bed oe we not 
pick it and enjoy it for the rest of its short life? b 
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