The C.P.R.E. has issued (from 17 Great Marlborough Street) a
very well-informed and suggestive pamphlet on our wild flowers that are now coming into bloom. It is *estimated that nearly 300 species have vanished from certain neighbourhoods, nearly all juxtaposed to some big town. One of the flowers I have myself seen to disappear (and after protection reappear) is the foxglove, which depends solely on its seeds for Continued existence. It would be a great help if one of our seed firms would do what the Swiss firm of Correvon does at Geneva. It supplies thd seed., of any alpine plant ; and these are used by many school.; as well as private gardener's. Its* help in the suppression of a desire to uproot wild plants has been marked. Can one buy the seeds of English wild flowers anywhere W. BEACI1 TrromAs.
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