50 STATE HORTICULTUEAI. SOCIETY. 



When their labors become better known and appreciated, their 

 opportunities for work, as well as the means at their disposal, will be 

 increased. Many more hands and brains will be needed to do the 

 work, and young men and women trained in entomology will be called 

 for as assistants. 



Most of the states have now established agricultural experiment 

 stations, and at the majority of these an entomologist is busily at work 

 on his specialty. Some of the agricultural colleges give courses in 

 economic entomology, and as the farmers learn to better appreciate its 

 money value to them, they will devote more and more time to its study. 



The implements needed for the collection and study of insects are 

 few and inexpensive. For young persons whose happiness lies in out- 

 door life and the study of nature, no department of natural science 

 offers a more inviting and promising field than applied entomology. — 

 Colman's Eural World. 



The Romance of Roses. 



BY S. B. HEERICK. 

 [The following was taken from The Cosmopolitan as being worthy of place. — Sec'y ] 



A traveler, passing through Persia, so the story goes, chanced to 

 take into his hand a lump of clay. To his surprise, it exhaled a deli- 

 cate perfume. "Thou art but a poor lump of clay," said he, "yet how 

 sweet thou art. Whence comes this delicious fragrance ? " The clay 

 replied, " I have been dwelling with the rose." 



The earliest records of the human race come laden with allusions 

 to the rose. It is found in the mythologies and folk-lore of all peoples? 

 it mingles with their religious rites, it crowns their fetes, it teaches and 

 comforts through its symbolism, it plays an important role in their half 

 mythical history. The oldest records of the past now existing in the 

 form of written language are the Hindoo myths. Vishnu, one of these 

 tells us, the Lord of the world, the God of life, one of the Trinity of 

 " bright Aryan gods," discovered his wife, Pagoda Siri, in the heart of 

 a rose. The Persian Ghebers say that when Kimrod commanded and 

 their infant prophet Abraham was cast into the fire, the glowing bed of 

 coals was turned instantly into a bed of roses, " whereon the child 

 sweetly slumbered." 



The poetical fancies of the Greek mythologies shadowing forth the 

 processes of nature give to the rose a lover. Zephyr, the son of the 

 dawn and the companion of spring, discovers the rose in bud; he 

 caresses it with his wing, he breathes upon it with his sweet breath, 



