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the trees are covered with leaves they cut off 
the necessary sunlight. An early spring plant 
cannot spare one day of sunlight because its 
working season is so short, but if a careless visi¬ 
tor to the woods picks the flowers and the leaves 
with them, the work of making food is ended. 
The bulb will not have enough stored away to 
start the plant next year; therefore another 
spring flower has been destroyed. The place 
where spring beauties were growing this year 
will be bare or covered with weeds next spring. 
Communities have three good reasons for 
saying, “Don’t pick the wild flowers:” picking 
flowers destroys the chance for seeds; it is more 
than likely to kill the.roots of perennial flowers; 
it prevents the leaves from manufacturing 
enough food for the next year’s growth. 
Wild flowers 
should not 
be picked 
