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the Bronx Park railway station, arriving at Grand Central Station 
at 6.08. 
The Museum Building is reached by Harlem Division, New 
York Central and Hudson River Railroad to Bronx Park Station, 
or by trolley cars to Bedford Park. 
NEW MISSIONARY WORK.* 
Again we are called upon to rally to the defense, this time of 
our native plants. One becomes a little weary of this constant 
warfare, but nothing is more certain than that we are not put 
into this world to avoid action, since it is absolutely impossible 
for us to avoid responsibility, those who refuse to hear about a 
wrong being as accountable for the continuance of said wrong as 
those who, hearing, refuse to act; and they in turn are no less 
to blame than those who act, but act ineffectively or injudiciously. 
Since we have no reason to discredit the statement that our 
native plants do require protection, it becomes our duty to inform 
ourselves as to the dangers which threaten them, to ascertain the 
best means of combating these dangers, and to consider how we, 
individually, can aid in the warfare. 
The circular of the New York Botanical Garden calls for ‘Essays 
on the Preservation of Wild Plants, including shrubs, herbs, and 
trees.” We are tempted to consign schemes for the preservation 
of trees to the Forestry Association ¢; there is surely no danger 
of the extermination of tree-species by the gathering of tree 
blossoms? Possibly not, but species-extermination is not the 
only evil that threatens our flora—we wish also to guard against 
a decrease in the number of individual plants of useful, interesting 
or beautiful species. In 1891 Dr. Farlowt called attention to 
the destruction of shade trees on country roadsides and the streets 
of villages, towns and cities through the gross indifference of the 
town and city fathers and the public generally, who allow tele- 
arded the second prize of thirty dollars, competition of 1902, from the Caro- 
line Olivia Phelps Stokes Fund for the Preservation of Native Plants. 
+ The American Forestry Association, Washington, D, C. 
tW. G. Farlow. Diseases of Trees Likely to Follow Mechanical Injuries. Read 
before the Massachusetts ey Society, March 7, 1891. 
