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sonable demand for wild-flowers without lessening the number 
of species or even individuals. 
Not till the property-owner realizes that there is a money- 
value in these things will the slaughter by the lawless collector 
cease. In France, one must pay to enter certain preserves 
where the scarlet anemones grow, and he may gather for 
himself, and carry away but a limited quantity. 
Probably the rarest of our plants have suffered quite as much 
at the hands of the collecting amateur botanist as in any other 
way. The old methods of high-school work requiring the prep- 
aration of an herbarium by the pupil have been supplanted by 
eld-work which deals with the plant-association rather than the 
individual. The aim of the old was the recognition of the plant 
e field; now simpler methods bring about the same result 
which has become the means toa higher end. Fortunately in 
the evolution of the botanist, the doctrine of phylogenesis holds, 
and the student of to-day passes rapidly through this phase, 
a 
all honor to those who by patient labor have made possible for 
us an easier path to a broader view. 
To the ecologist, the student of physiographic botany, a new 
earth is revealed. Shore and swamp and meadow, upland, ra- 
vine and river-bottom take on a new meaning. From the flora 
of a region, he reads the past and prophesies the future. Because 
the problem is so mighty, reaching backward into the dim 
past, and forward into an unknown future, it is with a spirit of 
reverence and humility that he goes about his work. He treads 
gee lest he step upon some fragile flower ; he stops to replace 
e whose tendrils caught his sleeve. This j is Nature’s own 
eee and he looks upon the results of the long, long ex- 
periments with wonder and veneration. To break a branch, or 
pull a flower, or crush a seedling would be sacrileg 
It is in the cultivation of a ie like this rere the beautiful 
places of earth will be preser e must begin with the 
children. Here is the a of the ce of nature-study. 
The new hunting with the camera in place of the gun is already 
gaining ground; the new herbarium composed of mental pictures 
should find its way into our schools. 
