Flower Protection
English wild flowers, in spite of a very late spring, are coming to their best. The bulbs of the wild daffodils or Lent Lilies, warmed by the gracious suns of last summer, have out-danced those that inspired Wordsworth or filled the gaze of Tennyson when he looked out of the windows of his house at Freshwater. Some wise and effective work has been done lately. A special committee, under the encourage- ment of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, have come into co-operation with ..a number of County Councils, who are now doing for flowers what they do for birds : put the rarer sorts on a protected list. That perhaps does not effect much by itself ; but education proceeds, and as localities become prouder of their flowers they produce local proteetors who help to compel obedience to the edicts of the Councils. Education matters most.
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