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12. An old lady was discovered by a guard in the act of 
despoiling the garlic-bed. She was interrupted in her labor of 
love and was escorted to the gates. That night, however, she 
returned after eight o’clock a succeeded in carrying off the 
coveted treasure. 
13. Two boys were gathering violets, carefully tying them in 
bunches and placing the bunches in a little pile under a protect- 
ing shrub. I seated myself on a rock near by and appeared 
absorbed in my book. After a while the boys placed the bunches 
of violets in their hats, put their hats on their heads, held their 
heads high, marched out of the exit on the Southern Boulevard 
before the eyes of the guards, and sold the violets to the passers- 
by for five cents a bunch. 
14. The park authorities permit the gathering of dandelions 
for table-use. Many avail themselves of this privilege as a means 
of income. One day recently, a guard noticed a suspicious 
purple colar protruding from a huge sack of dandelion-greens (?). 
The guard requested the Italian to empty his sack; it was full of 
lilacs; the man was going down town to sell them. 
15, A father, mother and little girl were sitting on a bench 
near the river. Each had a large bunch of wild columbine. 
The man explained: ‘‘ We got them over near the barn.” ‘“ No- 
body ever goes there, so they’d never be seen anyway,’ “A 
half-dozen children were coming from there with their hands full 
or we would never have found the place ourselves.” “ Well, if 
we don’t get them, somebody else will.” We 
every year and get flowers, and we carry them home, too 
“We know how to get out of this place without running up 
always come 
” 
against a policeman.’’ And these, too, were apparently people 
of the ‘‘ better class’’ (?). 
16, Ata distance I saw a two-year-old child borne in the 
arms of her fond parent. Her little hand was over his shoulder, 
and it was clasping a bunch of big white trilliums. I hurried to 
the trillium-bed; the fine clump of 7rdhum grandiflorum was 
marked only by bleeding stems an inch in height. This was a 
planted bed and contained several groups of trilliums of different 
species and each group had its own label. 
