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wiser than the children or ourselves. It is really surprising 

 how little country people know on such subjects. Farmers 

 and their wives can tell you nothing on these matters. The 

 men are at fault even among the trees on their own farms, 

 if they are at all out of the common way ; and as for 

 smaller native plants, they know less about them than Buck 

 or Brindle, their own oxen." 



Kitchen Dooryard at Wilbour Farm, Kingston, Rhode Island. 



In that delightful book, The Rescue of an Old 

 Place, the author has a chapter on the love of flow- 

 ers in America. It was written anent the ever- 

 present statements seen in metropolitan print that 

 Americans do not love flowers because they are used 

 among the rich and fashionable in large cities for 

 extravagant display rather than for enjoyment ; and 

 that we accept botanical names for our indigenous 



