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Hums and hepatica, only where guarded by 
some plant lover who is reluctant to re- 
veal their location for fear of the plant 
hunter. 
It is evident from what has been said 
that some of our most interesting and 
beautiful native plants are in need of our 
protection, and that the matter of their 
protection is of sufficient importance to be 
considered by everyone interested in the 
perpetuation of the beauties of nature. 
We should consider it not only a pleas- 
ure, but a duty to our descendants, to pre- 
serve and protect our native plants. Let 
them not find that we have preserved only 
illustrations and herbarium specimens, for 
their gratification and use. 
A popular campaign of education on 
plant preservation is needed, and I know 
that many of the members of this organi- 
zation are ardent and tireless workers in 
this field, but we need the assistance of 
every member. 
Teachers, writers and speakers endeav- 
oring to popularize our native plants 
should always call attention to their need 
of protection, and how and why they 
should be protected. Much good might be 
accomplished in this manner, and all of 
us should come forward with a helping 
hand in this movement of education. 
Here is where the superintendent of pub- 
lic parks and the superintendent of large 
private estates may be of the greatest serv- 
ice to the cause, by introducing these 
plants into his parks whenever and wher- 
ever an opportunity presents itself. He 
should study the habits and requirements 
of those plants which are becoming 
scarce in his locality, and find suitable 
places for them in the parks, thereby giv- 
ing them absolute protection. He should 
inform the school authorities and the pub- 
lic about the presence of these plants in 
the parks, at the same time calling their 
attention to interesting facts concerning 
these plants, their beauty, scarcity in the 
locality, and the importance of their pro- 
tection, wherever found. Then you, Mr. 
Superintendent, are not only preserving 
the plants, but also educating the public 
to an appreciation of our native flora. 
The time is rapidly coming, if not al- 
ready here, when to the numerous responsi- 
bilities of the park superintendent is to be 
added the great responsibility to posterity, 
of the preservation of our natural scenery, 
the protection of those mammals, birds and 
plants which modern civilization is grad- 
ually, but nevertheless surely, extermi- 
nating and destroying. 
The following list of plants which seems 
to need protection, in the vicinity of St. 
Louis, Mo., is merely suggestive, because 
plants which may be nearing extinction in 
one locality may be abundant in another : 
Trees: 
Juniperus Virginica, Red Cedar; 
Betula nigra, Black Birch ; 
Carya olivaeformis, Pecan ; 
Gymnocladus Canadensis, Kentucky Cof- 
fee-tree ; 
Juglands cineris, Butternut; 
Juglands nigra, Black Walnut; 
Pyrus coronarius, Western Crabapple; 
Prunus Americana, Wild Plum ; 
Prunus serotina, Wild Black Cherry; 
Crataegus, all species, over thirty of 
which are found in Missouri ; 
Cornus Florada, Flowering Dogwood ; 
Amelanchier Canandensis, Shad-bush ; 
Viburnum prunifolium, Black Haw. 
Shrubs: 
Ceanothus Americana, New Jersey Tea; 
Celastrus scandens, Shrubby or Climbing 
Bittersweet ; 
Cornus paniculata, Panicled Dogwood ; 
Coryllus Americana, Hazel ; 
Euonymus attropurpureus, Strawberry 
Bush; 
Ilex decidua, Decidous Holly; 
Species of native roses ; 
Viburnum lentago, Sheep-berry. 
Herbs: 
All species of native ferns; 
Acorus calamus, Calamus ; 
Cyprepidium pubescens and parviflorum, 
Lady-slipper ; 
Erythronium albidum and Americanum, 
Dog-tooth Violets; 
Iris hexagona and versicolor, Flags; 
Lilium Canadense, Philadelphicum and 
suberbun, Lilies ; 
The Railway Gardening Association held 
a very successful ninth annual meeting at 
Detroit, August 17, 18, 19 and 20, with 
about thirty members present. 
The meeting was held at the Hotel St. 
Clair. At the first session President Paul 
Huebner presented his annual address, from 
which we quote as follows: 
The progress in railway gardening has been 
marked in all sections of the country and we 
have come to be a power for progress such as we 
hardly dared to hope for in our modest beginning. 
This is true not only of the Atlantic Coast, but 
all over the country to the far Pacific. Those of 
you who have visited the western roads not only 
in this country, but in Canada, can testify to the 
vast improvement in railroad gardening in recent 
years. I feel proud of the honor you have done 
me in electing me your president and it goes with- 
out saying that I have been anxious to do every- 
thing in my power to further the interests of our 
profession and place it on a still higher standard. 
In the way of practical suggestions for appropri- 
ate action at this Convention I would call your at- 
tion to the following features of organization: 
First, the permanent committees upon the several 
subjects under which all of our work may be 
grouped. It is intended that the membership in 
these committees be slightly changed each year, 
but that a broad scheme for the systematic de- 
velopment of each topic be followed continuously, 
working from the most general aspects of the sub- 
ject gradually into the details and collecting all 
available information upon each phase of the sub- 
ject as we progress, ns was stated In my recent 
letters to chairmen of committees. In this way 
we should ultimately accumulate a large and or- 
derly mass of facts of every day value to railway 
gardeners, especially but also to gardening people 
in general, and such results should warrant a dis- 
tinctive recognition of our association for practical 
achievements. 
That Indeed should be the sphere or slogan of 
our assoelation. achievements along lines of prac- 
tical, horticultural work under a great variety of 
Orchis spectabile, Showy Orchid ; 
Smilacina racemosa, False Solomon’s 
Seal; 
Trillium Grandiflora, Large-flowered 
Wake-Robin ; 
Aquilegia Canadensis, Columbine ; 
Aster Novae-Angliae, New England 
Aster; 
Gentiana Andrewsii, flavida, liniaris, 
quinquefolia and saponaria, Gentians; 
Dodecatheon medea, Shooting Star ; 
Hepatica triloba and acutiloba, Liver- 
leaf ; 
Lobelia cardinalis, Cardinal Flower; 
Physotegia Virginiana, False Dragon- 
head ; 
Sabatia angularis, Rose Pink ; 
Sanguinaria Canadensis, Blood-root, and 
Viola pedata, Bird’s-foot Violet. 
Each one will be required to study his 
own locality, to determine which plants are 
becoming scarce, which are already ex- 
tinct, and which are apt to become ex- 
terminated in the near future. Certain 
plants should be protected everywhere, 
f. ex., the orchid family, the members of 
which, owing to the peculiar form of their 
flowers, are adapted to fertilization by but 
few insects, and consequently many of 
these plants, not being fertilized, fail to 
produce seeds, which results in slow per- 
petuation of the specie. 
natural conditions. In order to accomplish a re- 
spected standing for our association in horticultural 
circles the conscientious effort of every member to 
produce the best possible report upon each topic 
that is assigned to him is absolutely necessary. 
Each problem should receive thorough investigation 
in libraries as well as in the ground and among 
fellow gardeners, and the report should be a com- 
plete and concise statement of the facts of prac- 
tical value thus obtained. 
Second, the suggestion has been made that for 
our future meetings we follow the points of the 
compass in successive years; this is our northern 
meeting, let next year be our southern meeting, 
then an eastern and then a western meeting. 
Further, that the date of meeting be determined 
largely by the climate of the place where we will 
meet, later for northern situations and vice versa. 
Consideration should also be given, In this regard, 
to timing the meetings so that we shall see some 
feature of horticultural interest, during the meet- 
ing, that meetings shall not be fixed closer than 
six months from the previous meeting and that, 
so far as possible, the meetings shall be held dur- 
ing our least busy season. I should like to have 
a full discussion of this matter with a possible 
determination of our meeting places and dates for 
the remaining three years of this cycle. 
The reports of the secretary and treas- 
urer were presented, and a number of in- 
teresting papers were read that furnished 
subject for a busy session of discussion. 
The following officers were elected : J. A. 
Byrne, B. & O. R. R., Relay, Md., presi- 
dent; C. W. Eichling, Q. & C. R. R., New 
Orleans, La,, and R. J. Rice, M. C. R. R., 
Niles, Mich., vice-presidents for the four- 
year term and short term to succeed J. A. 
Byrne ; Charles E. Lowe, Penna. Co., Se- 
wickley, Pa., secretary; J. K. Wingert, C. 
V. R. R., Chambersburg, Pa., treasurer. 
Mr. Lowe acted as secretary of the meet- 
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