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Sierra Club Bulletin 



Protect the Native Plants 



Many attractive flowering plants, ferns, etc., in the neighborhood of 

 towns and summer resorts, are in serious danger of local extermina- 

 tion, or reduction to relative rarity. This condition already exists in 

 many places, and is much to be deplored, as it takes away one of the 

 great charms of wood and field. 



How may this danger be averted? Pick only a few flowers instead 

 of a large quantity, thus giving an opportunity for seeds to develop 

 and perpetuate the species. A few flowers skilfully arranged are much 

 more attractive and decorative than masses bunched together. In 

 picking flowers do not pull up the roots of plants. Avoid purchasing 

 wild flowers in the streets and elsewhere, thus checking the incentive 

 to collecting for sale, which in some cases has assumed very large 

 proportions. 



Much interest has developed in this matter and the Society for the 

 Protection of Native Plants has been organized to do what it can 

 for the cause through its membership and the publication of leaflets. 



Membership in the Society is free to any one interested, and en- 

 titles one to receive all leaflets of the society as published. Any 

 one subscribing one dollar a year or upward will be enrolled as a 

 sustaining member. All applications, for membership or leaflets, should 

 be addressed to the secretary. 



Miss Maria E. Carter, 

 Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, Massachusetts. 

 Robert T. Jackson, 



President of Society for Protection of Native Plants. 



The California 

 School of Mechanical Arts 

 Founded by James Lick. 

 Sixteenth and Utah Streets 



San Francisco, Dec. 3, 1913. 

 Mr. Wm. E. Colby, Sec, Sierra Club, 

 402 Mills Bldg., San Francisco. 

 Dear Sir: We would like to present to the LeConte Lodge in 

 the Yosemite Valley a pair of andirons. I visited the Lodge last 

 summer and took measurements of its dimensions, and the andirons 

 have been made to fit. 



It may be that the Lodge will be closed throughout the winter, 

 and if that is the case, we will keep them here until you are ready 

 for them, but it seems best to notify you at this time, in order that 

 you may not make plans for purchasing a set. 



Yours very truly, 

 Geo. a. Merrill, Director. 



