STORAGE ROOMS 
used to be very abundant, has become so rare 
that many people have never seen one. The 
trailing arbutus, one of the most exquisite and 
dainty of all spring flowers, has been torn up so 
carelessly that it now grows only in a few 
hidden spots. Flower lovers who know where 
it grows will not tell because they want to pre¬ 
serve it from the thoughtless crowds who would 
quickly pick it. 
Wild flowers are not like garden flowers 
which should be picked. Many of them pro¬ 
duce only one flower. The flower is at its 
prettiest before it has been pollinated. After 
pollination, it fades because its purpose in life 
has been completed. If it is picked before 
pollination, there will be no seeds this year. If 
it is an annual plant, one that dies down every 
season and has to start each spring from seeds, 
that is the end of its life. By picking one bunch 
of buttercups a thoughtless visitor may destroy 
a whole patch. 
A great many of our wild flowers, especially 
early spring ones, are perennials. That is, they 
