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her little grandson, ‘‘ He did not believe me but when his teacher 
mere slip of a girl —said it was so, he never dreamed of 
doubting.” In the heart of the little boy who was breaking the 
dogwood, his teacher was above the law and beyond the Board 
of Managers. 
And since this is so, my fellow-teacher, a great responsibility 
rests upon us. It is for us to instruct the child in those munici- 
pal laws which concern him ; it is for us to teach him to respect 
authority and to regard public property. But if we do this only, 
we but do the work of the hireling. It is for us to implant in 
the growing soul of the child such a love of nature and the beauti- 
ful that he will have no desire other than to help to make the parks 
places of beauty and loveliness. It is for us to develop in the 
child-soul so true and loyal a love for the wild flowers that he 
will enjoy them most when he sees them in their own ae and 
surroundings. We must study to work out ways and means to 
make this a living and vital subject to the child ; by Gao ates 
and experiment we must bring vividly before iin the function of 
root and leaf, of flower and seed; we must make his interest an 
intelligent interest. When we shall have accomplished this, then 
oblem of the preservation of the wild flowers of the New 
York Botanical Garden will be solv 
Mary PerLte ANDERSON, 
Te sees - Nature 7 in 
e Mann School of 
ve eachers me ‘Columbia University 
A RARE CYCAD. 
One of the most remarkable plants among the Cycadaceae, or 
cycas family, is the one here illustrated, Stangeria, a native o 
southern Africa. A single plant of this will be found in the 
cycad house in conservatory range no. 2. This was obtained in 
an exchange arranged with one of the European botanical gardens 
in 1902. For some years it was content to make foliage only, 
but in the summer of 1908 it gave evidence of making a cone. 
The development of this was watched with much interest, for the 
