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12-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 11, 1988 ' The Federation of Ontario Naturalists y -- " T - L- . FON Conservation Centre, Moaifield Park x 355 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Ontario, M3ti 2W8 Phone: (416) 444-8419 ^ by Marion Strebig Protect Our Emblem In our little woodlot the buds of the white trillium are fat to bursting. After a cool April they are a little late blooming. Perhaps because it has been our provincial emblem since 1937, the white trillium is one wild flower everyone knows. In her Studies of Plant Life in Canada published in 1885, Catharine Parr Traill comments that "few of our indigenous plants surpass the trillium in elegance and beauty...". Although most people are familiar only with the white trillium, a fairly common flower of the rich deciduous woods of southern Ontario, there are several other less common varieties. The deep red flower of the red trillium, known also as squaroot or stinking Benjamin, gives off an unpleasant odour like carrion which attracts pollinating insects. Like the white trillium it is most common in the moist woods of southern Ontario. Perhaps the most beautiful of all the trilliums is the painted trillium with the red blaze at its throat, and its streaked petals with the undulating undulating edge. It thrives in the acid woods and swamps on the shield, and is seldom seen farther south. The nodding trillium, its head hanging hanging delicately on its long drooping stalk, ranges even farther north and is rare anywhere south of the Canadian Canadian Shield. All trilliums develop from underground rootstock (rhizomes) which must store enough food during during this growing season to produce next year's plants. Picking the flowers removes the leaves, the food-producing organs of the plant, so that rootstock may die of the starvation. This is why picking trilliums is illegal. Enjoy the woods full of trilliums and leave them so that they will carpet the forest floor again next year. Since the trilliums root acts as a powerful emetic, perhaps anyone caught picking one should be forced.to eat the root. However, the main threat to all wildlife, including our wildflowers, is the disappearance or disturbance of habitat. As more and more woodlots disappear before the bulldozers, preserving small natural areas becomes increasingly urgent. Even where woodlots are saved from the bulldozer, they are often so tidied and cleared of undergrowth and native ground- cover, like the delicate spring wildflowers, that they are as sterile environments as the cleared expanses expanses of mowed lawn so dear to many people's hearts. In reaction to this manicured environment environment devoid of variety and life, many people have chosen to make their lots into miniature woodlots using native shrubs and wildflowers. This is often a positive step, a way of restoring the land. But there is a danger to other areas in this increasingly common practice. practice. A Gardener Alert has been sounded by wildflower societies asking gardeners to refrain from buying certain ferns and wildflowers such as trilliums, native orchids, hepaticas, Jack-in-the- pulpit and'yellow trout lily unless the vendor marks the bill of sale with "Nursery Propagated" and signs the bill. Wildflower magazine urges its readers to try starting their own, stock from seek or spores. Many species which are difficult to grow or are very slow-growing are being 'dug from the wild on a massive scale. The sudden and insatiable insatiable demand for wild plants to keep up with the "new" fashion in natural demand for wild plants to keep up with the "new" fashion in natural gardening has brought unscrupulous operators into the business of supplying material from the wild. It is up to each of us who is interested both in naturalizing our gardens and inpreserving wild stock to check the origin of any plants we buy. If present trends continue, a vvoodlot white with our provincial emblem may become a rare sight. Y ear-round OPP Ride prograrii shows results (Toronto) - Of 40 Ontario , motorists charged with drinking and driving offenses during the first week (April 17 to 23) of the new OPP year-round RIDE program, 25 per cent (10) were caught in the vicinity of Metro Toronto. The OPP RIDE team working in the Toronto area, stopped almost 2,500 vehicles during its first week of operation and charged the 10 drivers with drinking and driving offenses. ! "Clearly there is a problem with some motorists thinking that they can drink and drive on provincial highways," said In^sp. Norm Wasylyk. "That kind of thinking is deadly. It costs lives and'it must stop." | During the first wee); of operation, operation, the OPP stopped 28,699 vehicles across the province. In addition addition to the 40 drivers charged at the OPP checkstops, 118 other motorists were given 12-hour licence suspensions. "As the OPP R1DË Program Coordinator, I am confident that the year-round OPP ; RIDE initiative initiative will help make our highways safer for all motorists," said Wasylyk. The OPP RIDE team working in the London area stopped 4,816 vehicles and charged only one person person with a drinking and driving offence. offence. The Ottawa area OPP RIDE team stopped 2,437 vehicles and charged three motorists with drhiking drhiking and driving offenses. « The OPP RIDE team working out of Thunder Bay stopped 1,071 motorists and charged seven with a drinking and driving offence. Earlier this month, OPP Commissioner Commissioner Tom O'Grady assigned 96 officers to work full time on the year-round' RIDE program following following the committment of $14 million • by the Ministry of the Solicitor General. 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