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In 1910 another series of smaller prizes were offered to students 

 in the high schools, and these were won by students from the 

 Washington Irving High School, the boys high school in Brook- 

 lyn and the Morris High School, Bronx. 



Finding that many of the wild flowers were gathered by the 

 children for their teachers and that large quantities were supplied 

 for the high schools of New York City, it was arranged through 

 the interest of one of the members of the board of education 

 that the following wild flowers should be eliminated from the 

 list of botanical supplies in the New York public schools : trailing 

 arbutus, wild columbine, fringed gentian, hep^tica, Indian 

 turnip, moccasin flower, wake-robin, wild orchid; and cul- 

 tivated plants have been substituted for wild ferns, Solomon's 

 seal, wild geranium and others. 



During the year 1912 and the present year, the accumulated 

 income of the Stokes' Fund has been used for colored illustra- 

 tions for a series of essays on "Wild Plants Needing Protection" 

 and has included (i) the Jack-in-the-pulpit; (2) spring beauty; 

 (3) wild pink; (4) wild columbine; (5) bird's foot violet; (6) 

 wild azalea; (7) moccasin flower; (8) dog- wood and (9) laurel. 

 The essays have been reprinted and may be had at a nominal 

 price from the New York Botanical Garden. Extra copies of the 

 colored plates have been made and are to be distributed to the 

 schools of New York City for framing. 



Lectures illustrated by colored lantern-slides, have also been 

 given under the auspices of the Garden. In this way a general 

 interest has been aroused, which has resulted in the foundation 

 of the "Wild Flower Preservation Society of America" with a 

 large membership in various cities of the east. Local chapters 

 have been organized in several of them, and further information 

 may be had on application to 



Mrs. N. L. Britton, 



Secretary- Treasurer 

 New York Botanical Garden, 

 Bronx Park, N. Y. City 



