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Practical Botany. — The matter of botanical instruc- 

 tion in all schools is to a large extent a matter of fashion, and 

 the fashion is usually set by the larger universities where no at- 

 tempt is made to give botany an industrial trend. There has 

 been developed a splendid lot of texts on morphology, em- 

 bryology, systematic botany, physiology, etc., but none of this 

 material has been presented in its agricultural bearing, and 

 consequently the field of botany in agriculture has not been 

 clear. At the present time it has neither direction nor agres- 

 siveness. What we really need to work on is the science of the 

 breeder's art and the science of the gardener's art. At present 

 the art is far in advance of the science. In fields where the 

 agriculture art was not highly developed — notably pathology 

 and bacteriology — the botanist has accompHshed great things. 

 If we pursue agriculture or ai.y phase of it without devoting 

 our science to it we can become at most expert farmers. 

 By devoting our science to agriculture and having faith in its 

 potency no man can fortell '.he outcome. — C. V. Piper in 

 Science. 



Storing Facts. — Go to the nearest printer or paper 

 dealer and get a supply of manilla slips cut somewhat smaller 

 than a postal card. Place these where they wil be readily ac- 

 cessible when you are reading and when you chance upon a 

 fact that may later be useful to you jot it down then and there. 

 Give the note a title on the top line that shall indicate its con- 

 tents, add at the bottom the title and page of the volume or 

 magazine from which it was taken and file away for future 



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