Plea for the Conservation of Wild Flowers. 203 



"Pick wild flowers, as many as you can really use — 

 they'll put joy in your heart; but pick them, don't yank 

 them up by the roots, and don't tread down all the others 

 near those you pluck. Pick your footsteps as well as 

 your flowers, sparingly and carefully. Then go your 

 way, rejoiced by the thought that another may find the 

 sought-for cheer in those you have left living." 



If the children be trained in this department of nature 

 study, let it be done in the fields. Instead of one trip of 

 destruction, let many be made to study the flowers, their 

 environment and purposes; and, at appropriate times to 

 gather and distribute seeds to assist in the conservation 

 of the plants in their unmatchable beauty as intended by 

 nature. 



