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one through an agricultural college, and the other through a 

 literary college, the best of the kind, and put them back on the 

 farm and leave them there, which is the best educated for his 

 line of business? If we go at this question in a really serious 

 way, we can get lots of food for thought out of it 



Dr. M. M Prisselle: I think we underestimate the ability of 

 children to appreciate and understand facts in agriculture and 

 horticulture, and especially horticulture, and as an illustration 

 I know of a child, a child less than eight years old, who lived 

 in the country last summer, and whom a friend undertook to 

 teach something in horticulture, something in regard to trees; 

 and that small boy, in the course of a few months, learned the 

 botanical names of trees so that he could name every tree in 

 the forest and could give the botanical name of the tree, and 

 those botanical names of trees are not very easy to remember; 

 and yet this boy, only eight years old, could name almost every 

 tree in the forest botanically, and almost every plant in the 

 garden. The children will learn those names and understand 

 more about those subjects than we give them credit for. 



The Honey Berry of Japan.— I first received this as an unknown 

 plant, collected by my collector in Japan, on an unknown island in 

 the Yellow Sea. It grew rapidly from the first start and proved that 

 it required no petting. I was surprised at its rank, luxuriant growth; 

 the first season, I believe, it attained a height of about sixteen feet, 

 with canes nearly an inch thick; the next season the canes grew 

 nearly twenty feet in length, almost straight up. The leaves on this 

 plant are quite similar to the leaves on certain rose plants, except 

 that they are several times larger than any rose leaves, the leaves 

 being about ten inches long on the old stalks, or canes; they are 

 a brilliant, dark green, the under parts being covered with numerous 

 purple thorns. The canes also are covered with tens of thousands of 

 purple thorns, which glisten in the sunlight, and which give the 

 bush a singularly beautiful appearance. The fruit is a marvel; it 

 is so glassy, and so brilliantly colored as to sparkle in the light; the 

 color is reddish 3'ellow; the fruit is quite large, of a strange, mystic 

 flavor, which many people pronounce superb; again, others do not 

 like the flavor. This plant is a raspberry; it commences to fruit with 

 the earliest raspberries and continues until Christmas. It is a 

 greater yielder than any raspberry known at the present day. The 

 fruit is valuable for any purpose that a raspberry is put to. 



— Canadian Horticulturist. 



