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THE ravages of plant-raiders, about which Mr. Perrycoste so justly complains in your number for July 25, are a serious and growing evil, and the deplorable effects are felt and seen in almost every accessible part of the realm. I am encouraged to hope that the case of the Cheddar pink is not so crying as that of some other plants, especially orchids and ferns. It is far easier to grow the Cheddar pink from the seed which it produces so freely than to extract the roots thereof from its native limestone chinks. Let us hope that the plants Mr. Perrycoste saw offered for sale were grown for that purpose, just as white heather, once esteemed and hunted up as a rare emblem of good luck, is now grown in thousands by nurserymen, and hawked through the streets of northern towns at a penny a bunch. I do not know to which Thalictrum Mr. Perrycoste refers as suffering from plant-stealers; fortunately the Welsh poppy (Meconopsis cambrica) has spread to many districts of the country, and is naturalised far and wide.
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MAXWELL, H. A Flower Sanctuary. Nature 89, 581 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089581b0
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