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or a college, are willing to take the six years or more that are im- 

 peratively required for thorough preparation for the work of a 

 plant physiologist. The labor is great but the reward is sure. 



The daily papers are giving interesting reports of the visit 

 to the United States of Mr. S. B. Dicks, who represents the great 

 seed firm of Taber and Co., of London. This house has been in 

 existence since the time of Queen Elizabeth, and may have sold 

 seeds to Shakespeare. For a long time the seeds handled by this 

 finn were grown in Europe, but now, chiefly on account of more 

 favorable climatic conditions, the industry has been largely 

 transferred to California. Seeds of onion, lettuce, sweet pea 

 and aster are among those that are now raised in[Califomia for 

 the whole world. 



