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The West American Scientist. 
Vol. XIV. No. 7. 
THE WILD FLOWER PRESERVA- 
TION SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 
The increased interest in nature 
b of a popular nature, has or- 
tunately endanger the existence of 
m orn ental wild plants that 
tors in arousing a healthy public senti- 
ment against ae inate 
thougt ntless Reins -pickin But it is 
evident “that the successful — 
sada ttia this nd re- 
ion o 
quires a central body w wie see direst 
and inspire the work; and it also re- 
quires some official eencniey of publi- 
cation. The bigeye of a vational 
£ li ffected on 
Hise it + en co. 
certain extent the growth of popular 
sentiment, is the direct result of the re- 
marks by Dr. F. H. Knowlton in his 
essay, “‘Suggestions for the Preserva- 
’ which was 
in me recent 
a 
sharon of the aims and objects of the 
“te peti to me that all # gi oristni ef- 
fort that can be made for the conserva- 
July, 1903. 
re 
Whole No. 126. ; 
tion of the native flora is naturally di- 
visible into two fields: First, the broad- 
sentiment regarding the protection of 
] in general and, at m- 
m te steps that must be taken to 
1 
ishness which prompts the indiscrim- 
anes plucking of every bright-colored 
flower or shapely fern that attracts 
their eye. A walk afield, yr ge i ee 
the presence of nowers and birds, 1 
behind a memory sige” pes 
CF r 
symmetr 
br ae or the gratification of the mo- 
scenic — a void impossible to fill.” 
‘the sahabed ae of labor of the ae 
ciety may be su marized as folllows 
struction in the differences between 
native species, many of which are rare 
< easily destroyed, and the introduced 
weeds, most of which are so sturdy 
and abundant that they will survive 
wholesale plucking. 
MORAL SUASION.—Public peat 
ment can be influenced to a large 
