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gathered most. This may be due in part to the cleistogamous 
flowers which never appear above ground. But neither does 
the water lily seem to be suffering, although marketed freely. 
As before stated, local lists of similar flowers could be easily 
made up by any competent local botanist. 
Flowers can be gathered in moderation from flowering shrubs 
and trees without material injury to the plants if little of the wood 
and leaf-bearing shoot be removed and care be taken to select 
flowers from different portions of the plant. For instance, it is a 
decided advantage to apple trees to have some of the flowers 
removed in seasons of very full bloom. But itis far from an 
advantage to have whole branches torn off bodily and all the 
lower flowers entirely removed, as is so often done with the apple 
trees and with the dogwoods in the vicinity of New York City. 
There are flowering dogwoods enough in its vicinity to give 
pretty nearly all comers a moderate cluster if properly gathered, 
but at the present rate and methods of collecting there will soon 
be none for any one. The locusts, sweet pepperbush and the 
various species of viburnum belong in a similar class. 
any of our most interesting wild flowers, especially those of 
early spring, arise from a thickened underground portion, rich in 
stored nutriment, and while in many cases the flowers cannot be 
collected without taking the leaves also, the underground por- 
tion (rootstock, tuber, bulb, corm, etc.) will easily supply the loss 
if not too frequent or severe. Such flowers, for example, as the 
spring beauty, jack-in-the-pulpit, bellworts and anemones, can 
be gathered in moderation in the more secluded portions of the 
city environs. In these cases special care should be taken to 
avoid injury to the underground portion, although in many cases 
nature herself has looked out for this by burying this portion of 
the plant deeply in the soil. If any one doubts this, let him try 
to dig a few corms of the adder-tongue lily (Erythronium). 
Then there is a class of flowers ordinarily classed as weeds, 
yet beautiful withal, and so sturdy and difficult of destruction 
that they can nearly always be collected without compunction. 
Such are daisies, buttercups, wild carrot, dandelions and others. 
There are other flowers in every locality that should not be 
