334 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



To make the farm attractive, show the child its attractions; how 

 plants know when there has been a storehouse of food placed within 

 their reach, and will immediately turn their attention to it. Show how 

 each and every plant takes Irom the earth and atmosphere different 

 elementary substances, and hiw they are stored up for our use. Show 

 the child the plants' adaptation to the necessities of other living or- 

 ganisms in the localities where they Hre indigenous ; how that in every 

 locality the animal and plant support and sustain each other and 

 in the end consume each other. The breath of the ox is the food of 

 the plant upon which he fattens. 



How interesting ir is to watch the plant industries as they are car- 

 ried on side by side, each doing its own work wisely and well and with- 

 out exciting in the least the envy of its neibhbor, and without con- 

 tention or strife. We see the maple collecting saccharine juices ; the 

 ,pine, rosin; the popy, opiurn; the Oik, tannin, and so on through the 

 list. In our gardens the aconite collects a deadly poison which it 

 stores up in its tuber-, and by its side the potato gathers in starch for 

 the sustenance of man. The plant's adaptation to the soil and climate 

 in which it is to grow is one of the most beautiful and useful studies 

 .for the old as well as the young. 



C. L. Allen, in Ladies^ Floral Cabinet. 



A DAY or JUNE. 



• 

 [ could write such a beautiful poem 



About this summer day, 

 If my pen could catch the beauty 



On every leaf and spray, 

 And the music all about me 



Of brook and breeze and birds — 

 But the greatest poet living 



Cannot put them into words. 



So T may not write down the poem 



As It came from the hand of God 

 Vw the wonderful worldless language 



He writes on sky and sod, 

 In words that we tell our thoughts in, 



That will make you feel and see 

 The beautiful, beautiful poem 



This day has been to me. 



If I might, you would hear all through it 



The melody of the breeze, 

 •Like a fine and far-off echo 



Of the ocean harmonies : 



