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eluded from the course usually followed ; 
and they are to be preserved un- 
changed for artists and for the enjoy- 
ment of the Parisians (figure 8). In 
1899, ordered that a register of 
all remarkable trees should be drawn 
up. The trees were to be protected ; 
and, when this was impossible, a special 
report to the Board was to be made, 
and the forest inspectors were charged 
with the inspection of these trees. 
In the year 1900, the prefects of 
the provinces of I sere and Savoie pro- 
hibited the uprooting and the exposing 
for sale of alpine plants, such as Cypri- 
pedium CalceoluSy Eryngium alpinum, 
Gnaphalium Leontopodium (Edel- 
weiss), Rhododendron spp., Cyclamen 
europaeum, Artemisia Mutellina. 
In 1906, a law was passed organis- 
ing the protection of landscapes and 
natural monuments of an artistic but 
not of a scientific interest. Besides this. 
