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will never receive it until Americans cease to feel inet Yankee 
genius will “find something else when that is gone.’’ 
Those who “love flowers’? form a class following next in 
destructiveness. The aesthetic reasons which should appeal to 
this class fail because the desire for possession follows apprecia- 
tion so closely. Many a little culprit stammers only, ‘I wanted 
it.” It is not astonishing that love of the beautiful is so closely 
connected with crime ; they are related as intimately as love and 
passion. This leads to most ruthless destruction. At Bronx 
Park last year large piles of flowers might be seen at the exit 
gates, left there by violators of conspicuous signs. Wholesale 
devastations may be witnessed by watching the returning crowds 
at some of the uptown ferries. Masses of fragile blossoms which 
will never as are carried over on every boat in the early flower- 
ing d for what? <A ‘gentleman handed his wife a 
final ation to ae floral spoils, saying, ‘‘ Now you havea bou- 
quet for every window,” meaning, not their pee in the 
house, but the customary and too hasty mode of exit from it. 
As new towns develop we expect to lose many of our wood- 
land treasures. It is one of the prices of civilization, without 
doubt. Yet need we lose our trees? Ignorant real estate offi- 
cials are doing more to destroy these than we realize. How 
many of our new towns located on cleared woodlands are entirely 
destitute of trees! Often trees ave planted ; two or three years 
afterward one may see lines of dead trunks, with here and there 
a lone survivor, usually a foreign poplar, which affords neither 
shade, fruit, nor yet pleasure to the eye. Along the Hudson 
river acres of young native trees (not available for timber) have 
been so destroyed. Here at least ten thousand were destroyed 
for every one planted. 
n this same district fresh air and other charitable societies 
have oo aided in this destructive work. Hundreds 
from New York City are sent daily to a small créche where the 
ground owned could only with difficulty provide standing room 
for the hordes brought there. The woodlands near by have con- 
sequently suffered heavily. Such societies should not transport 
more people than they can entertain on their own grounds, or 
