vnm -555 %iEft"|l*'itQi y^M^n iiy« Sim ^. "q^ 3^ «»:* ^q ?ft % *i^m sr^st^." (iftrji) 

 8tm <^i^ y'^'H'fl uQ ^^ ^, 'H'^y^i^li >ii(^ci nm f^ik y'^M'ft >ii<ni "h^^i^I ^. 'ni^ 



" Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful. Beauty is God's 

 handwriting, a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, and 

 every Fat'r Flozver, and thank him for it, the fountain of all loveliness; drink it in, 

 simply, earnestly, with all your eyes; 'tis a charmed drought, a cup of Blessing." 



"^ifcT •>4ei ^«R «i%5j JJl'^iHi (Jiioi 2^55=11 »i(i. ^'44 5»l n^i'ii .4*<^i^^ ^. «^ =^i^Hcti 

 ^ilfiA SIi':ii>ii ^i^ cHi^ ^41 %i^5iiR sj?, =«H^ ^utni ^usH =»i^ -vjiwd^ Hja ( s5l>ii ^ 3i^ 



>ll'{l ) -H^^-^^^l ©•HSR ^W; «l^l ctl<i ^'m«(l y^y^l ^^ <§^i5l\4jf ^IIS % ^ 

 w^Js ^l^[l«lig«ii MlQwi, >i^ill ^a^l &." {Martin Tupper.) 



" Of all the studies that ever occupied the attention of man, the cheapest, the 

 most delightful to the mind and invigorating to the body, is the study of nature. It is 

 here, indeed, that man may with truth be said to be following out that line of conduct 

 that his Creator intended him. The first attraction to the child when set down on the 

 green is to pick up the wild Flowers, and this first and fondest attraction generally 

 remains to the last hour of our Hves." — (Richard Brook). 



" To our readers we say. Go, take practical lessons. None more accessible 

 will you find in this world : for the 



* Flowers that spring by vale or stream, 

 Each one may claim them for his own.' 



T -ke the great volume of the Book of I<!atitre, that book ever spread open before us by 

 Him who is its Author; go straight on, gather leaf after leaf, examine, compare, and 

 ponder over them. Ponder how well 



"The Almighty Maker has throughout 

 Dis-'jiminated each from each, by strokes 

 And touches of his hand, with so much art 

 Diversified, that two were never found 

 Twins at all points." 



Thus, and thus only, will you gain practical knowledge of, will you acquire real interest 

 in the study of plants, "• — (Spencer 7homso7i.) 



