Plants are easily destroyed. As a rule the golf club
tends to preserve-rather than destroy ; but it is apt to suffer from a fatal tidiness. I knew exactly one place in North Devon where the bee-orchis grew ; and grew in considerable quantity. It has, I fear, completely disappeared ; and the destructive cause—or so it seems probable, so I infer from appearances— has been the scythe of the green-keeper. The orchis grew almost alongside a tee,' whose neighbourhood in the last year or two has been fatally tidied up, " merely for wantonness." Golfing and botany do- not appear to be correlated; -Doubtless at
Westward Ho they are very proud of Juncus Armata, the spiked and giant rush that can even :penetrate a golf ball, much more the hand or calf of the golfer,; and I once found an ingenious green-keeper attempting to fix loose , sand by colonizing plants of mesembryanthemum, a gorgeous but rather unpleasant growth ; but this golfer dislikes Burnet roses and lychnis and bedstraw and has a real hatred of the Buckshorn plantain and poa anima !
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