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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 
kinder feeling toward these infants of 
the human race. They are evidently 
just beginning to learn and have not 
progressed very far in their lesson. 
Fortunately, however, the beginning 
class is small. The great mass of hu- 
manity will thoroughly sympathize 
with us in our endeavors to beautify 
Sound Beach and with this Wild-flower 
Preservation Committee in the effort to 
save the fast disappearing choice plants 
of the state. 
Jack’s Cousin. 
BY WILLIAM H. HUSE, MANCHESTER. N. II. 
We are all acquainted with Jack 
standing in his living pulpit with his 
striped sounding board overhead and 
wild calla that floats on the water of 
our northern swamps and sends its 
roots down to the mud below. There 
is another cousin that pushes its 
mottled spathe up through the frozen 
ground and ice-cold water and offers 
its pollen to the early bees. These little 
workers are in nowise repelled by its 
odor that is disliked by the delicate and 
that gives it its name of skunk cabbage. 
It is of still another cousin that I 
write — one that lives in the distant Pa- 
cific isles and is found here only among 
the tender plants in greenhouse and 
garden. Its name, as registered in the 
botanists’ card catalogue of vital sta- 
tistics, is Amor pho phallus rivieri. There 
may be some who prefer its common 
LOOKS LIKE HUGE JACK-IN-THE- PULPIT! 
pleaching silent sermons not intended 
for human ears. What are his sermons 
that enter the human understanding 
without sound waves? Well, that is 
another story. We are hunting now for 
his relatives. He has a cousin in the 
name, which is snake palm, even 
though it is not a palm and only re- 
motely suggests a serpent. 
The summer before the appearance 
of the blossom that is shown in the 
illustration a leaf was produced with a 
