Exchanging Seed Something was said last week of the new
arrangements made by Flora's League for the purchase of wild flower seeds. The habit appears to be growing of reserving a bed or so for flowers of the wild. The idea was a favourite one with Mr. E. K. Robinson very many years ago. The society that he formed has continued in force and Mr. Richard Morse, on whom his mantle has fallen, has arranged for the exchange of wild flower seeds, even of the rarer plants, by members of the British Empire Naturalists' Asso- ciation. The danger, of course, has been that the very love of wild flowers may induce the lovers to harry the plants and seeds. The two objects of growing wild flowers in the garden and giving freedom of reproduction to the plants in the wild should be attained by both the schemes of the Flora League and of B.E.NA. The scheme is explained in the spring number of the Countryside, the official organ, published at Letchworth, Herts. ; and a very good number it is.
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