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fold habits of destructiveness afield that real lovers of the flowers 
so much deplore and the society is fighting so hard to overcome? 
Magnitude and quantity, distinctive features of the age and 
typical to a degree of New York conditions, makes the work of 
the economist in any line especially difficult. In no department 
is this more true than along the lines of the self-imposed task of 
those who are urging saving ways in the enjoyment of the wild 
flowers 
Nature studies in the schools, where the classes average any- 
where between forty and sixty pupils each, and the modern school 
house is a goodly town of from one to three thousand rising 
oung citizens including their future wives and sweethearts, 
demand such quantities of living greenery and blossoms as can- 
not fail to impress the individual with the boundless prodigality 
of nature, rather than with the power of man to overcome even 
nature’s bounteousness by his careless destructiveness. 
rge the teachers then to impress the scholar with the fact 
that every leaf and twig and blossom is far more beautiful in its 
native wild that he can possibly make it on paper, and is likely 
to have if not positively known to have, numbers of utilitarian 
purposes other than its needful subservience at times, to educa- 
tional ones 
Above all urge the teachers to impress upon youthful minds 
the rare merit of unselfishness in their rambles through the wilds. 
If a favorite flower, and children early learn to know their favor- 
ite blossoms, is found blooming alone, teach the child the merit 
of leaving the dainty little recluse to fulfil the law of its bein 
and multiply its kind; and no one will be more delighted than 
the child who, later on, discovers that the fragile little waif has 
succeeded, thanks to the lesson of human self restraint, and is no 
longer a lonely dweller among alien blooms. 
If the favorite blooms are of more sturdy, prolific habit, teach 
the child the true kindness of leaving some of even the best 
beloved blossoms for the delight of later comers who may love 
them still more dearly. And last, but perhaps most valuable 
of the lessons afield, teach the children to know and love the 
flowers whicfi can best withstand indiscriminate plucking and will 
