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any flowers out of the park ; so now they were just picking what 
they wanted to wear and to play with. 
Two children with big bunches of buttercups, wild gera- 
nium and jack-in-the pulpits were following their parents. “Why 
do you let your children gather the flowers?” said I, “Why, 
they’re wild!” was the answer. 
21. Three girls of fourteen to sixteen years had seen the 
notice, had read it, had understood it. Still each had a handful 
of flowers of various kinds. ‘“ Everybody else does it,” they 
said. 
22, Two girls about fourteen years old broke a branch from a 
barberry bush in the Herbaceous Grounds. A guard approached 
and took it away from them. ‘I didn’t see any sign, did you?” 
one of the girls said indignantly to the other. ‘‘ No,” was the 
reply as she turned . give the bush another look, ‘“ and what is 
more, there ain’t any.” The botanical label is evidently develop- 
ing a new function; to the ignorant, its Latin tongue may be full 
of mysterious and hidden meaning. 
3. Three young women, presumably shop- girls, with armfuls 
of maple, oak and birch branches, and spring-beauties, violets 
and wild geranium were strolling among the beds in the Her- 
baceous Grounds. They told me that they hadn’t taken a thing 
from the beds ; that I could see for myself; that they had gotten 
their things in the woods on the hill and they were not like those 
in the beds ; why, they never thought the big signs meant those 
kind of things, they supposed they meant the things that had 
been set out in sae or any shrub or plant that had a little sign 
anes label) on 
o well- 3 women were coming out of the woods 
with bunches of wild pinks in their hands, I asked them if they 
had read the notices. 
“ What notices ?” 
“ Those at the entrances or at various places in the Garden.” 
“Why, no! why do you ask?” 
“ Because we are trying to preserve the wild flowers in this 
park, and it is expressly stated that no one is to pick them.” 
By this time, a man evidently the husband of one of the two 
