AND HIS PLANT SCHOOL 



The Nashua River, Lancaster, Mass. 



One of his first treasures purchased with his own earn- 

 ings was a good microscope, with which he studied the 

 tiny mosses (and lichens) on the old stone walls, and which 

 revealed to him some of the beauty of the flower hidden 

 to the unaided eye. 



He early formed a taste for reading, for the home was 

 well supplied with books. The weekly visits of the Youttis 

 Companion (then a much smaller paper than now) were 

 welcomed by him, as by so many boys and girls since 



