Show i ill THE RARE AND BEAUTIFUL t AMERICAN WILD FLOWERS n 0 la i 3 effa orchard conner 9 forim IH kt HI 00 0 0 0 Q oi Q 0 rt 1 j j as 3 not you folk iiona and garla both want to help n a noble national woric an or has been formed laray called the wild flower preservation society of america its members arc to do what they can each in hla nod tier own locality it over the antt ed states to keep our native wild lowers rom being destroyed oft the face af pf the earth the founders and chief officers of this new are men in high office under the united government its i mr frederick W 0 four ind a halt street wash mr covalle Is the botan tBt ot the united giata department of aerl calauro cal turo another actively interested a this work Is mr charam loula pollard assistant curator in the division of in the national miny ot you hlll no doubt aks to join ha and taki part in achieving isaam you 1 to that ha waa by two la adte alss carolina and ww rhelda they bean tha abc car AND tunics cal C al utta t I 1 acy kvia paso to the botanical carden K 1 i of ey york city to be used in savin i ltv wild anwer n that locality t i tr nil r lucky enough to live til or i J j titar the country where watt patches af pf i p rt arc it perhaps you know some i t abe bs babonn Bonn of loveliness and 1 gilr r anif try are as perl hahlo ai 1 i h oro ova too aliat 3 ing them the country over ts that every herds of children and grown people who ought to know better EO tramping through tha woods and lanes like oxen crushing under foot the blossoms they do not pluck and carry away from my window last spring one DAISY AD day I 1 saw a man and his two come home laden ath splendid doer wood blossom in gathering theeo they had broken oil and destroyed fully three years growth 0 th showy tre the next morn morang ng mon day about 6 I 1 paw tha mother pitch th e whole bach ot with ored brancheau bran chea and flowers into sheet to the infinite vt the street sweeper who carna later now what good did it do those ruthless ones to ruin tho hand dofer wood tree oo 00 into the woods and pee the wild nowery by all means your san of beauty their loveliness learn their namen and habits of crowth but let them llva K you them and hold them in your hand apu wilt fogt ot them in an hours alma and they are so the farat to come la the anemone as I 1 r member next the deers and tho woods violet its and purple colors bator ru r u iilo the illy the wild rap illy and the tiller illy a blossom as ever unfolded in a awen I 1 did you ceef see anything mort than a brilliant green pastura field starred over with yellow blooms fach one like sun it Is so bright there 00 oo la he american cowslip nearly as filsht as thi dandelion ono v biart liart I 1 haw in my lucky childhood in the was called cocoon po coon 1 probably an indian word for I 1 cannot find tl tn the dictionary this too had brilliant yel lov lowers shaped and wo bonns ones used to dig up the roots and he pictures 1 our school readers with tha colored pap ot them thero vec two kinds the reit and the qua they made a brilliant stain indians used the same for ago amt I 1 suppose cilin cil rn who fenew na hetter have dus up the cocoon po coon fogts row 0 o I 1 hear of the plant any wore there too are the columbine upon shaded rocks the dais the ladya slipper abs tbs rea lily and ind i coula go hk 4 day af th doat destroy thant prevent othro roi cepi f you pan let them alvo tt their plied eq an aibe earth |