New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
CAMERA B0TANISTS
They Photograph Plants and
Lcarc Then GrO7cing.

For the last three years / have been
spending my vacations in the mountains %
South Carolina hunting loWers and plants
with my camera" { woman whose pas
sion for flowers. especially Wild flowers.
is well known among her Office associates,
told the reporter
Everybody in our office gets a month
during tle summer. and when my turn
comes leave al once for the country /
don't call myself botaniFt / have
horror Of them ever since the summer /
went of with one. She was q professor
in a well known college, and l considered
il E fine thing TO spend my vacation with
3 woman who stood 50 well in the world
Why. TO me she seemed almost creature
Of higher order. but before the end OF
that vacation ! had changed my mind
Now / love flowers and Plants, love to
look al them and watch them growing II
their native surroundings, and 70 see that
woman cut and slash of the prettiest of
theYn for the sake Of adding them TO what
she called her collection made me sick
and that collection YVES even worse to
look at 1 called 1t her morgue, and 10 me
il vas almost as distressing as a moTsue-
i couldn't half enjoy the wonderful
rhododendron bloom in the mountains OF
and was clipping OF huge clusters Of
blooms. many of them to be thrown down
and trampled under her feet an instant
after because she had found a finer spec.-
men or wanted only one or TWO single
flowers.
Another wonderful bed OF wild flowers
That I saw her DESTROY was the familiar
Indian pipe Of pellucid whiteness burst
ers and low growing ferns. In this par
ticular bed both varieties Of the Indian
pipe were growing within a few inches
of each other and both groups contained
several perfect specimens. The pine sap,
which Is much rarer than the familiar va
1ieiy. MAS pulled cp by me roots. and Of
the entire crop I don't believe she left
q s.n2.e one intact She explained when
re!nonsJ teG with her for tearing them
in pieces that she had 20 do II to study
-hesu properly. Tai cane the second day
OF our entecln, the ooGs, and after that /
must admit ii1aI : Has prepared for al
rcost aE-y-tl....c and 1eliJ as far away from
ner duiias Cur hunts into the woods a.
possible
This summer there VIII lie no botanist
IN our party O. fye-fou: women and one
man who Is rly brother ard the husband
of one Of the otlser EvoT2en-and no flowers
VIII be cut o. taken from the woods ex-
cept as the camera takes them. Our object
& 10 enjoy the woods and the mountains,
but noI 10 rob them Of q single beauty.
we are going Il the Carolina mountains
again. as We have FOR several seasons past,
and have postponed our start untl the be
ginning OF August for TIE purpose Of se4-
fne fre autumn changes. When I reach
Carolina ] viii find the other four waiting
fer ne We have wagon drawn by u
m.le This wagon is 4 covered affair. such
as We seldom see up here, though IN the
mountains of tae Carolinas and the II
ginias / an tcid they gre very common
IN t.1iz wagon arc packed three tents ana
aIi oG- SmapIies. On leaving the Ia.iToa 7
we strike t,t-1 for i:le mountains in'- "ii-
tire party. inclu5in: The mule. walking ai11
taxing ia tiE2e. IS cur plant hunting re-