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Study of Nature. 



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Triticum Sativum (Fenton) 

 Froment Rouge 

 Ecosse Ble Fenton 

 Triticum Sativum (Spring) 

 Froment Rouge 

 Froment Bury Medal 

 Greja . - - - 

 Soule - - - . 

 Algerian Wheat - 

 Pithusian " - - 



Gale " 



Early Noe 

 Flamath Wheat - 



Itnitf nf MiituiL 



The age in which we live has a decided tendency to the artificial. 

 The very desires and affections of man's heart have been turned from 

 their proper channel. Scarcely can anything in these days be regard- 

 ed as elegant, that is natural. Art must throw around all things an 

 enchantment, before they can be appreciated or appropriated to our 

 use. Such is the force of public sentiment that the very innate fac- 

 ulties, and qualities of man's whole nature — moral, intellectual and 

 physical — seem seriously perverted, influenced in many instances as 

 they are by the whims and caprices of a fluctuating, morbid and ar- 

 tificial state of society. Diligence in the perusal of the latest novel, 

 aptitude in the appreciation and peculiar habits and manners of he- 

 roes and heroines, and a consequent apeing of what is denominated 

 high life, are deemed prerequisites to gentility, and to be regarded as 

 worthy of any attention by the ton of society. 



While looking at these features, limned as they are by this artifi- 

 cial age, we have been led to think, that, could we be induced to study 

 the visible works around us, we should reach a point of moral and 

 social elevation, and a degree of happiness far higher than is now 

 attained and enjoyed. Could we but view nature unspoiled by the 

 hand of art as our forefathers did, when they looked upon the ma- 

 jestic forest, the pomp and pride of the wilderness, adorned with the 

 exuberant beauties of a wonderful vegetation and crowned with the 



