THREATENED RARITIES.
A large number of the rarer flowers dwindle and vanish: You can scarcely find any local or county record of flowers that does not -bewail 'some threatened extinction: one could
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make out quite a long list, and it would not be nearly. . . Cheddar . exhaustive. It would contain the Cheddar Pink, -Daphne, Mezereuin;' lily of the Valley; a number of orehises:Lthe Brown, ButterflY, Bee and . Ladies' TresseS-L-the eyelainen, lady's slipper, the columbine, the wild Seakale; and even the Lent lily, 'though- rich patches remain: The laments' come from all parts : Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Kent, 'Corn- wall; •DerbyShire; Merioneth and HertfoidShire (where some rarities are visited only bY stealth and their home never, mentioned). If I were to 447 here and now. exactly where the Pasque lily was to be 'found,' those, spots would be quite. barren of Pasque lily by the Easter of next year. The trowels would be busy and the lilies transplanted even dUring their. flowering 'season, probably to their immediate' cloom—leven the'grAiden would not profit by the losS of the chalk' doWn:
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