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and push in this company to carry it through "all difficulties. And 

 while they are laboring- for the successful accomplishment of this en- 

 terprise, let them be cheered by the fact that they are engaged in one 

 of the noblest callings ever practiced by Adam's race. . 



bota:n^y of our flowers. 



BY L. A. GOODMAN. 



[Read before the July meeting of the Missouri Valley Horticultural 



Society.] 



In discussing this subject I shall take the liberty of embracing in 

 it some of the fruits and wild plants of our fields as well as our flow- 

 ers. 



All vegetable creation is divided into two series. 1st, Flowering 

 Plants, Ud, Flowerless Plants; the first series into two classes, 1st, 

 Exogeneous, and 2d, Endogeneous. 



The first class comprise those which grow from the outside by ad- 

 ding layers and having bark, wood and pith, forming annual layers ; 

 and second those which grow from the inside and form their woody 

 portions in thread like tissues running the whole length of the stem, 

 and if they live more than one year they add more threads. 



I shall not give you the names of each of the following divisions 

 with their meaning, but will try and show you how easily they are 

 classified and followed from one to another, and if we make no mistake 

 in reading the flowers and plants we can always tell where they be- 

 long. 



