298 DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND PLANTS 



Ornamental Plants 



Along with utility goes beauty, and the human animal has 

 long surrounded his habitation with such flowering and other 

 ornamental plants as happened to strike his fancy. The list is 

 indefinitely long and the species are exceedingly varied. Whether 

 for flower, fruit, or foliage, the number and variety of plants 

 that minister to beauty are bewildering, and both are being 

 rapidly increased by breeding. 



Here is a world of beauty and of interest, not only to the 

 artist but to the breeder, into which we can only glance and 

 catch a glimpse in passing. We all admire the grace and fra- 

 grance of the rose, as well as its variety of form and color, 

 ranging from the stately American Beauty of the hothouse to 

 the delicate moss rose of the garden. This admiration is in- 

 creased to wonder when we realize that they have all developed 

 from the common wild rose that clambers over our fences and 

 brightens our hedges in all the eastern United States, and that 

 planted a multitude of bright eyes in the western prairies long 

 before man was there to see. 1 



There is no more fascinating work than the bringing out of 

 new forms of plant beauty, and young men and women who 

 have the artistic sense developed, will find much in this realm 

 of nature to stimulate to still further appreciation of the beau- 

 tiful, and to show what may be done with the materials which 

 the All-Father has placed in our hands, and the great principles 

 with which he has taught us to work. 



Weeds 



Just as certain species of animals have attached themselves 

 to us and our affairs without invitation, and continue without 

 welcome, so have certain species of plants invaded our fields 

 and gardens, quite against our desires and greatly to our 



1 Showing the mistake of the notion that all beauty was made expressly for 

 man's enjoyment. 



