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is produced. You will notice that monoecious and 

 dioecious plants are profligate in their discharge of 

 pollen. You have been under the Willow's golden 

 shower or trod in the sulphur bank under the Pine. 

 As they must depend upon the agency of variant 

 zephyrs, they must be prepared to waste much to 

 accomplish little. 



Garrya is called after an official of the Hudson 

 Bay Company who observed the plant in the North. 

 The city of Winnipeg, in Manitoba, was originally 

 Fort Garry after the same explorer and only 

 assumed its present title in 1873. Elliptica comes 

 from the shape of the leaves. A sister is the Garrya 

 fremontii, named for our American explorer, and 

 commonly called the quinine-bush. The Forty- 

 niners used a tea of this shrub as a substitute for 

 quinine in fighting the malaria of the early mining 

 districts. 



In these suggestions for observation of our flora, 

 we have been considering the plant in its individual 

 development only, and not in its relations with the 

 rest of the world; but in your daily life you have 

 learned that nothing in the world exists by itself. 

 As trees have certain habits that react upon the wel- 

 fare of mankind, it is well that we pay attention to 

 these. Every person, whether man or woman, boy 

 or girl, has some influence on his associates; and the 

 tree, too, though never having the unselfish impulses 



