Show save wild flowers Is annual appeal nature lovers asked not to despoil woods wooda washington save bave the w wild ild flowers n aers especially ly the dogwood 1 each spring aprin 9 an appeal upped 1 Is bring being made ads to the C chivalry it b ry and ad though on tf ulness ot of the public in behalf of attract america I 1 vanishing bud and defenseless wild flowers for some ome obscure reason there them are count conat tesa americana of both sex sexes who would seem scorn to attack the little animals of the woods wooda and fields but atho b a do not hesitate to wage relentless war warfare facto on the flowers A hen ban spring trustingly trO stinglY read eada out the most delicate blossomae blos soma thene theas the nature lovers go out to in pluck uck tear and cast at aside clumps of pale colored home bowers that III na made ade a picture in th their sit original as setting g of gross grass treal rod and sky mom oon lose their freshness tresh nesa when arc carried led off an in bouquets mot most people know knew this Y yet t award a rd I 1 the do dote of a spring P in sun sam dy day every y suburban road mad every street car Is strewn with wilted flowers wand aside aid by tired holiday makers despoil spring beauty these flowers might have bloomed blamed for fee mother another week to give pleasure to many more mom people but that li is not the th real tragedy of the wild flowers fl the forst f cut of the situation I 1 Is that in BO many caama the flower picken allars are permanently arm aly despo despoiling 11 th bop the beauty of spring take the dogwood for instance this la 1 not at a tiny plant to be easily pulled up by children it Is in a tree genara generally I 1 it about the size of a fruit re tee yet the dogwood 1 la being more mor ruthlessly destroyed than my any other mail native true tree or plant somalia Botan bay sy that at the present rate to or of deal m tl venesa the native american america dogwood will be extinct twenty fire years yeam the wild flower preservation so clair which campaigns every year to aade the american dozen emphasis es one me particular plant mch each spring this year dogwood d Is R given an the spotlight tracer because it Is A BO rapidly digap disappearing earing the dogwood true tree Is in one of phe the most besot beautiful ifal trees treas that can be fount found and it 1 la a native a american it once grew la in out our woods code in profusion and the comm flowering variety I 1 la till found from canada to florida RIO along 9 the at coast and quite for far to the west another variety growa grew along the P pa chic coast it 1 la a rather sturdy tree resistant to discuss and ad adaptable to a variety of growing conditions when the wild dogwood blooms in early spring the tree becomes a mass of white him each ch white while petal has haa a tits notch no ch in the edge which makes anke the dogwood blossom one of at the moat at attractive motif tit far or artistic design the ailed co coiled blossom by the way la Is not really the flowers of tit the tree s at all the white petals are tech mcailly called braats bracts or the I 1 n they are only modi modified fled im leaves V es the flo flowena overn are am the little bunches ot of light ligh 1 green wa which ach cluster in the center 0 of 1 the white whit dogwood perishable A dogwood tree in ba bloom 0 am against a background of other falls foliage re I 1 trona forma any country road ad or garden the mine bame may be said bald of th the dogwood when it bearns bean it if crop of a red berries berrie in late autumn at ba both hc seasons ians the dogwood breach branches seem in to shriek carry me home to the country tourist at least that 1 la how be or she interpret Inter the message of the tree th the r result it 14 Is genc generality that the passer by goes up to the tree and tears team off on a few sprays the tearing process strip down the bark back leaving open wounds if the wounds are large fungus disease may me set 1 in 1 and the tree may tit die this happens only too ran often the wild flower preservation society C la Is ur urging gi ng motorists and hikers to enjoy the dogwood on the tree carry try away a in mental rural plan picture of it in all its freshness and ad Is leave it far or others other to enjoy if branches must be ink taken home they should at any rate be cut clean with a sharp knife so BO as to a void avoid injury to hie tree that so 80 much 0 fumed la Is destroyed 1 ta particularly unfortunate bemuse because the re sprays spray us ere so perishable that the cut branch branches ere are of little uses use florist know how bow to pack them 1 in moss but tho the sunday excursionist simply 1111 trails 1 I a long along in the BIC hot but sun with the branch over or one arm or else els he be lay ily the them dome in asem a jolting dug dusty ity automobile the white petal become brown rod and crushed crashed and once faded cannot be m r there are am a number of wild 11 life to P pr as belvea a on which the wild flowena fl owera R c me as well na as animal birds bird bud and im insects m receive protection th these chuboff areas amus so ea h covering from 50 to ems acres or are guarded by watch watchmen to make sure that the flowers and wild r ild creatures have bave a chance to grow grew an and d multiply unmolested |