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sible to newspapers and other periodicals, accompanied with a re- 
quest to the editor for publication if found available. Some will! 
of course find their way into the waste basket, but if supplied in 
this convenient form, many will undoubtedly be printed. This 
work should not be sporadic, nor on the other hand would it be 
wise to crowd it. 
As a further means of spreading this movement I would ad- 
vocate the establishment of a national society, aiming to do for 
plants what the Audubon Society has so well done for our birds. 
This of course should be in no wise a technical botanical society, 
but an organization adapted especially to children, young people 
and nature-lovers in general. With relatively slight modification 
the constitution of the Audubon Society could be adapted to the 
needs ef an organization of this kind, for which I venture to 
suggest the name Zorrey Society, There could be no more fit- 
ting memorial to this celebrated botanist than a society devoted 
to the preservation and popular study of the plants he loved so 
well, 
The establishment of chapters of this society should be urged 
in centers where interest, however slight, is manifested, and in 
time a journal devoted to it its needs could be inaugurated. At 
first, however, it might be best to affiliate with some existing 
publication, after the manner of the magazine Bird-Lore, which 
is the official organ of the Audubon Societies. 
Another fruitful field to be cultivated is the public school. 
Probably no class in the general public is so destructive of 
flowers and plants as the average school child. Most children 
are naturally destructive, but most of this comes from thought- 
lessness which can be in large measure corrected by judicious 
instruction. As a first step toward securing this correction the 
aid of teachers of nature classes should be secured. Leaflets 
setting forth the objects of this movement should be widely and 
systematically distributed among teachers, and if practicable a 
reading book adapted to the lower grades of public schools 
should be prepared, in which interesting accounts of plants and 
plant-life should be woven with appeals for plant protection. 
The establishment of school gardens should be heartily en- 
