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gathered at all, but it is doubtful whether a list of such would 
not induce certain irresponsible persons to hunt them down. If 
good full lists based upon the same principles as those given 
above were easily accessible to every one, I believe it would aid 
greatly in the matter of popular education and would act as a 
restraint on the more public-spirited portion of the community. 
As before stated, the usual channels for popular instruction 
must be our main reliance. Newspaper agitation is slowly but 
surely making it bad form. It has always been poor taste to 
wear the plumage of our wild birds,and the same agency properly 
utilized will make any right-minded person ashamed to collect 
great handfuls of our wild flowers only to throw them away as 
soon as they wither a little in the hand. Fewer flowers will be 
picked and, those few will be carefully cherished so as to please 
for days instead of minutes. 
The place of places for public instruction is the schoolroom, 
although newspapers, books and lectures have done much for 
animals and will do much more for plants. Every teacher of 
botany and every teacher of nature study should be sure to imbue 
his pupils with an idea of the sanctity of plant life. Here isa 
field which some flower-lover of the artistic and literary ability 
should enter at once. For a well-told story is the strongest 
method of rooting ideas so deeply in childish minds that they will 
bear fruit in action. Black Beauty, overdrawn and unreal as it 
is, by its vivid portrayal of the suffering (real or imaginary) of the 
horse, read in thousands of schools, has done incalculable good 
in making children more thoughtful of the comfort of their ani- 
mal pets and companions and more considerate in their treatment 
of them. 
Something similar is needed properly to impress children with 
the fact that flowers need their care and consideration, and may 
suffer deformity and death if misused, although actual pain may 
not be possible to them. 
I would respectfully suggest that the next prize from The 
Olivia and Caroline Phelps Stokes Fund be offered for stories of 
this sort, suitable for reading in the primary and grammar grades. 
I may have used the term “Societies for the preservation of 
