Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1931, Page 12

- REDIOPLEANADE FORWILD FLOWERS Head of Preservation Society | Tells of Plants That Need | rigid protection from the usual destruc- tive methods of picking if we are to keep ouraoodlands and meadows beau- tiful for future generations to enjoy, but & few of them by some provision .of na- ture need no protection. One of | earliest of these is the skunk cabbage, which usually 'flowers here during March, which may be found in boggy places along streams, and derives its name from its characteristic odor. Most of its flowers have now disappeared. but its large, more or less cabbage-like leaves are still conspicucus features of | the landscape. “Also flowering the latter half of | March is the very small flowered Spring to Be Protected. | Declaring that the annual cherry blossom fete here in Washington pro- vides one of the “greatest flower dis- plays of the country,” when “few of the spectators ever try to break off any of | the branches,” P. L. Ricker, president of the Wildflower Preservation Society, in a radio address over Station WRC yesterday said “there is just beginning | 1o appear throughout our woodlands and meadows a display of our native wildflowers that should arouse an equal enthusiasm .and reverence on the part of nature lovers who visit them.” Mr. Ricker, who is an expert of the Department of Agriculture, has been an enthusiastic flower conservationist for this region, as well as carrying on his national work as head of the Wildflower Preservation Society. “This does not mean that no wild- flowers should be picked.” he declared, “but Spring flowers of the woodlands cress, which is found in dry fields and rocky places, and is often not more than one or two inches tall, with a very small rosette of leaves at the base. “The common chickweed and often the dandelion, flowering in March, are often found during any Winter month after one or two warm days. Difficult to Transplant. “Trailing arbutus, one of our most beautiful and fragrant flowers, was for- merly abundant throughout the Eastern States, but it is becoming very scarce. even in the places where it should still be abundant. This is due almost en- tirely to the pulling up of its long run- ners, which are thrown away after breaking off long stems for, the flowers. If short stems are cut with a knife or scissors, without tearing up the runners, ' plants would soon increase in num- bers, and there could be no possible objection to thus taking a small portion of the flowers. Street vendors will soon appear selling large bunches of these brautiful flowers, and you are urged not to encourage the picking of these flow- e [ leaves about the last of June. THE EVENING of the seed, which can small, green capsules, abcut one-guarter of an inch in diameter, under the new should be planted in pots of spectally prepared acid sofl. “The Bloodroot, with its large, white, star-like flowers, is particularly attrac- tive, but the most sensitive cf any of our native flowers, as the petals fall off very soon after picking. Other Spring Flowers, “The yellow flower, with shiny mot- Itled leaves, suggesting the markings of |a trout, ccmmonly called the Dog- | toothed 'Violet or Adders Tongue, is not | related to the violets and the name Adders Tongue is properly applied to a | much more appropriate name of Trout | Lily is coming into general use. This, | like the Spring Beauty, is connected by | a very slender stem to a small bulb five or six inches underground. It is almost impossible to dig up the bulb without | breaking off the slender stem of the plant. The bulb serves as a storehouse | of food supply to carry the plants over Winter. If the leaves are picked with the flowers, these bulbs cannot form | again, as they are made up of starchy material formed by the taking up of carbon dioxide from the air through minute breathing pores in the leaves. “Besides the preceding flowers one | may find in the woods at present the Hepatica with white to blue flowers and leaves scmewhat liver sbaped and liver colored on the under side which gives the plant its name: the Harbinger of Spring _with a cluster of very small STAR. They | open woodlands along streams fern, so to correct these misnomers the | WASHINGTON, requires acld soil to succeed. If you in-| with a four to eight-inch hairy stem sist on trying, it is better to obtain some | be found in |small white flowers and aione to three | ficient abuhdance to warrant extensive terminating in a compact cluster of inch rosette of leaves at the base; the Virginia Bluebell in low meadows .l“d with large clusters of medium - sized blue to purplish bell-shaped flowers; the Dutchman’s Breeches, which crudely resemble but in inverted posi- tion, has a white flower with yellow base and finely and deeply cut leaves; | the closely resembling Squirrel Corn in | which the flowers have the spurs drawn closer together: the Sessile Trillium | with three large heart-shaped leaves surrounding an erect deep red to green- ish flower about an inch long which rarely opens; the Toothwort with me- dium-sized three-parted and much- toothed leavesp and clusters of white the ivy-leafer Speedwell with y-shaped leaves and blue flow ers on a stem about two to three inches | tall and the Rue-Anemone with a few white flowers about half an inch in diameter, and several sets of three roundish leaflets on a shiny“dark brown D. 0, WEDRESDAY! | stem about four to six inches tall. Few cf these are found around here in suf- | picking.”. | A Canadian 'world " War "veteran | turned farmer, has succeeded in grow- ing a white tomato equal in all re- speots to the red varlety. It is now an | established product of the prairie' prov- inces of Canada. g APRIL 15, 1931, Tribesmen in India Revolt. BOMBAY, April 15 (#).—Dispatches from Renpur today said that militant 'Mly'lm\ tribesmen had revolted against the ruler of the native Indian state, | Malia, where a reign of terror exists. 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