38 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY [1912-13 



Thursday, Jan. 25, 1912. 



HAUNTS OF NATURE. 

 Dr. Edward F. Bigelow. 



President Breed called especial attention to the meeting 

 next week, ''The Development of Agriculture in Worcester 

 County," by Charles H. White. He then introduced the 

 speaker, Dr. Edward F. Bigelow, of Acadia, Conn. Dr. Bigelow 

 is the editor of the department of Nature and Science in the 

 St. Nicholas magazine, and is wholly familiar with nature, 

 having been a student of it for many years. 



Dr. Bigelow had many beautiful stereopticon slides with which 

 to illustrate his talk. The first slides shown were frost forms, 

 photographed on a window on grasses, leaves, etc., and show- 

 ing a great variety of forms. Dr. Bigelow said that horti- 

 culturists were more than enthusiastic about their flowers in 

 spring and summer, but they did not ever notice the beautiful 

 wonderful flowers that Jack Frost planted in the winter time. 



Then greatly magnified snowflakes were thrown on the 

 screen, and one remarkable thing about them was that al- 

 though there were many different flakes shown, each one had 

 six sides, though no two were exactly alike. Dr. Bigelow said 

 that there is no two of any thing alike. ''When nature made 

 you and me," said Dr. Bigelow, "she said, 'Never, never, will 

 I make another thing like that!' " And so it is with everything, 

 no one has two eyes which are alike, your hands differ from 

 each other, and your feet. 



He also said that if, some chilly day, you put a basin of cold 

 water, with a piece of black cardboard in the bottom, you 

 could, if you watched closely with a magnifying glass see the 

 ice form on the surface, and would see the beautiful frost 

 flowers which are known to scientists as crystalline blooms. 



Several slides were shown depicting country scenes which 

 had bits of poetry connected with them, that Dr. Bigelow gave 

 for the benefit of those present. 



Dr. Bigelow said that once in New York he visited Tiffany's 

 and was shown a diamond necklace which the clerk alleged 



