28 <;LIMI'SES IXTO I'LAXT-IJFE 



I fear that many young people are apt to 

 consider botany a very dry study. They are 

 naturall)' repelled by the long words and man>- 

 technical terms used in describing plants. 



It has long been my belief that the study of 

 botan\- should be approached through the garden 

 rather than the schoolroom, beginning with a 

 country ramble which should be an object-lesson 

 opening out endless paths for future study. 



Our Heavenly Father has given us a beautiful 

 world to live in, and, when our eyes have once 

 been opened to observe what lies around us, 

 nature becomes like an exquisite book of pictures, 

 alwa)'s revealing to us something new and won- 

 derful as we turn over each fresh page. 



It is suited to all ages ; the bab)' child begins 

 by gathering daisies and buttercups, while older 

 children make wild-flower collections and perhaps 

 work in their own little gardens watching the 

 grf)wth of seeds and slips. 



The beaut)' of ferns and mosses is sure to 

 lead to some painstaking stud)' of those fascina- 

 ting growths. 



Later on the fact that all trees have flowers 



