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and trampling and fires, the wild things again take possession 
of the banks and dells and ledges. It is at once a better 
woodlot and a wild flower reservation, and serves both use 
and beauty. Happily, the day is passing, when to help 
fill the paunch of some cattle-beast will be considered the 
chief end of every green thing growing wild on the farm. 
Study 29. Wild Spring Flowers of the Farm 
The program of the work for this study will consist of a 
visit to some native bit of woodland where the wild life has 
not been exterminated, and of an examination of the wild 
flowers, one by one, observing where they grow and what 
manner of life they lead. 
The record of this study may consist of: 
t. A map of a small woodland glade, with indications 
thereon of the distribution of the common kinds of wild 
flowers in relation to slope, moisture, shade and forest cover. 
2. A table of all the wild flowers found, prepared with 
some such column headings as the following: 
Name (ask instructor if you do not know it), 
Stem (erect, trailing, creeping, underground, simple, 
branched, leafy, naked, etc.). 
Flower (color, odor, form, size, etc.). 
Flower-cluster (diagram). 
Foliage (leaf-form, color, texture, etc.). 
Situation (wet or dry, in sun or in shade). 
Social habit (Solitary, commingling, cover-forming, etc.). 
Remarks. 
“That little patch,’ said a successful flower-grower to me the other 
day, pointing to a bed of some rare daffodils about four feet by five, ‘is 
worth fifty pounds.’ I tried to look duly impressed: but I bethought 
me of a certain streamlet thickly, but not too thickly, edged with king- 
cups, which, if human delight were the measure of value, must have 
been worth fully fifty millions.”’—Hubert P. Bland. 
