October, 1918 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



97 



Wild Flower Conservation 



A S SEVERAL people have written me 

 ■^*- concerning my article on ''Wild Flower 

 Preservation" in The Garden Magazine for 

 February, 1917, and believing that others 

 might, too, be interested in the different 

 phases of the subject, I will add some sugges- 

 tions to what has already been published. 

 Someone wishes to know how to get the public 

 interested. First, be interested thoroughly 

 yourself, then, like leaven, the thing will have 

 a good start. And I have the belief that city 

 people can be more easily interested in the 

 conservation of wild flowers than country 

 people. I remember that when I lived on a 

 farm such plants as Oxeye Daisies, New Eng- 

 land Asters, etc., I despised as weeds, and 

 for good reason; but now, a city suburbanite, 

 I give a conspicuous place to our natives in 

 my garden. And by becoming an enthusiast 

 in this line I have interested others in wild 

 flower culture. Another way of getting the 

 public interested is through the school chil- 

 dren. 



One party wishes to know how to go about 

 the saving of our wild flowers. In your trips 

 about the country or the fields of the suburb 

 it is well to anticipate the securing of some 

 wild floral treasure by carrying a few coin en- 

 velopes for seeds or some waxed paper for 

 wrapping plants. Let the school children 

 interest themselves in the saving and sowing 

 of worthy wild flower seeds, paying attention 

 to. soil requirements. But do not hesitate 

 to sow bog plant seeds in ordinary garden soil, 

 or vice versa, for plants often have a way of 

 accommodating themselves to environment 

 foreign to their original habitat. I have made 

 the Lady Slipper Orchid do splendidly in a 

 shady spot in the garden. And we are all ac- 

 quainted with the glory of the Cardinal Flower 

 in everyone's garden that naturally loves a 

 moist place for her feet! Then if aquatics 

 and semi-aquatics will not survive in our 

 moist spots we can saw a barrel in two, sink 

 it even, so as not to be visible and insure a 

 plentiful supply of moisture. 



Then, again, there are many wildings that 

 can be propagated from cuttings. It is sur- 

 prising the readiness with which some will 

 root. I brought home some slips of our wild 

 prairie Rose and thrust them in moist earth 

 and turned a mason jar over them and in 

 a few days they were all rooted. This 

 Rose develops a stem some twenty feet in 

 length. 



I remember that when I came to Detroit 

 sixteen years ago, wild flowers were held in 

 such light esteem that I innocently picked a 

 bouquet of the choicest May Flowers in the 

 woods of Belle Isle and brazenly passed sev- 

 eral policemen on my way out of the Park. 

 Now rigid restrictions are placed on such 

 vandalism. 



Then purple Gerardias, Gentians and the 

 like were treated as weeds. Now they are 

 cherished by many individuals and societies. 

 Then wild life in the parks could be classed 

 as simply plants and shrubs and trees. Now 

 they are individualized. A neat label helps 

 to educate people and introduces them to the 

 non-botanical population. Some people may 

 have the idea that our natives cannot be trans- 

 planted when in bloom. But I have yet to 

 meet with disaster from moving flowering 

 plants. The fine feature about it is that you 

 can see what you are getting. This is es- 



Eecially desirable with such kinds as Canada 

 ily, Veronica and Phlox that vary so in their 

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