Country Life
FLOWERS AND THE C.P.R.E.
When the Council for the Preservation of Rural England meets next month at the Welwyn Garden City some special emphasis is to be laid on the flowers and animals of the country- side. It will scarcely be believed by the less specialist public how many botanists make pilgrimages to this and that haunt of a rare flower, and what pains are taken to keep its whereabouts secret within the esoteric circle. The immediate neighbourhood of the C.P.R.E. meeting has its secret Meccas, though the Garden City authorities long ago set on foot a botanical survey of their particular district. One of the difficulties in preserving flowers is that their friends are apt to be a greater menace than their enemies. The prizes given to schoolchildren for the collections of specimens are a danger. If any particular flower acquires a public name for rarity it is ravaged, and this death by popularity has already befallen some of our loveliest and most curious orchises.
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