WILD-FLOWER SANCTUARIES.
LTO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.".1
SIR,—As to the question relating to the " Grass of Parnassus " raised by some of your correspondents, may I point out that it was only the destruction of its habitat on the Somersetshire turf moors to which reference was intended, for in really wild regions in Great Britain it is still common. A better example might have been chosen, but it was cited because possibly bits of undrained land, remnants of bygone England, are now in the first rank of danger. With regard to the restoration of plants it is often quite possible. I can give as an instance a spot where a larch plantation has killed off all plants of Anemone pulsatilla, but within thirty yards of which others have been planted by hand on a common of down-land where they will be safe. As to the Selborne Society one question is, has it properly constituted trustees who can hold sanctuaries given to it in the same way that another society holds places of historic antiquity ? I ask this because the three or four pieces of land that I know have been acquired by lovers of wild-flowers have been vested in municipal and other trustees,
and not in the Society.—I am, Sir, &c., Oxobruoisis.
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