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the native plants in many of the most beautiful spots. Flower 
lovers in New York and other large cities owe it to themselves 
and to the ideals they represent to see to it that measures are 
taken to preserve untoucied such spots as the woodland and 
swamp in Van Cortlandt and Forest Parks. 
The forestry agitation and the forest reservations will, of 
course, tend to preserve woodland plants of all kinds and flower 
lovers should reinforce the forestry associations at all possible 
point 
The pulp mill is without question the most dangerous enemy 
of our forests. The ordinary lumberman will leave enough young 
trees standing to practically reforest the lumbered areas in twenty 
years, but the pulp-wood cutter leaves nothing but desolation. 
The Green Mountains in southern Vermont have been the scene 
of lumbering operations for years, but the forest areas rapidly 
renovate themselves so that little damage is done to the native 
flora; the land still retains its moisture and is not subject to any 
considerable degree to forest fires. Contrast this with the state of 
affairs in the southern Adirondack region where the insatiate pulp 
mill has taken everything worthy the name .of tree, and where 
destructive forest fires burn up, not only the surface vegetation, 
ut the very soil itself, as it is in many places so rich in vegetable 
matter as to be combustible to a considerable extent. The man 
who shall invent a cheap and satisfactory substitute for wood pulp 
for paper will do more for forests and flowers than all the legis- 
latures in the country could accomplish in a century. 
The problem of preserving wild plant life in the vicinity of large 
cities and towns stands distinctly by itself. Except in a few cases, 
as outlined above, it is not a problem to be reached by law but 
by enlightened public opinion. The police regulations may in a 
measure protect the park areas but in the larger and wilder parks 
police protection to be adequate would be burdensome beyond 
endurance, both to the taxpayer and the lover of nature. I, for 
one, can never enjoy nature while under the surveillance of a 
blue-coat. He isa rank and jarring discord in what otherwise 
might be a soul-stirring visual symphony. 
A great proportion of evil is wrought through ignorance and 
