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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



THE '-RUSTIC" BUDS OF LARCH. 



The chapter does not say all that 

 nu'g-ht be said on the subject. It stops 

 while the interest is keen. Neither the 

 subject nor the reader is exhausted. 



But suppose a teacher were to come 

 in. Then I think I would hand her 

 Coulter's "Plant Life and Plant Uses." 

 (D. Appleton & Company, New York 

 City). His chapter on buds seems a 



little better arranged and is rather 

 clearer. 



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Now let us pass to the buds them- 

 selves. What is the one great interest 

 in buds? Unquestionably their ingenu- 

 ity of design. Buds are beautiful. Buds 

 on their twigs placed in a vase of water 

 in wintertime are conspicuously beauti- 



LARCH BUDS ARE OF INTERESTING DETAIL. 



