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carried home; the several reproductions of my work along this 

 line illustrates the present article. 



From ; the gathering of such beautiful bouquets as the one shown 

 in Fig. i, composed chiefly of anemones, liverworts, and bloodroots, 

 the passage was easy to bringing home the entire plant — roots and 

 all. This soon led to various boxes — great and small, not to men- 

 tion all kinds of pots and jars — being pressed into service to hold 

 our specimens. In a little while, and after several tramps, some 

 of the broad window-sills of our home contained boxes, jardinieres 



and pots, filled with rich 

 earth from the woods, 

 which had growing in 

 them fine specimens of 

 many of the very earliest 

 spring flowers, such as a 

 tall jack-in-the-pulpit, 

 trailing arbutus, early saxi- 

 frage, liverwort, bluets, 

 violets, anemones, and 

 several more that make 

 their appearance in the 

 woods at the very opening 

 of the season. 



When such plants are 

 thus placed, one instinc- 

 tively begins to study 

 them as they grow and 

 develop. Every leaf is 

 noticed as it unfolds, and 

 the various forms it assumes up to full development is noted — 

 not soon to be forgotten. Observation of this kind is given 

 even more carefully with respect to the flowers when they 

 begin to show themselves; and when the temperature outside 

 admits of the sash being raised, it is not long before we commence to 

 notice the various kinds of insects that visit these several species 

 of flowers and note what each and all of them come there for. 

 This leads to consulting the works on the entomology of the region, 

 and among these many of the useful publications of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. 



Fig. i, 



Specimen of the very earliest 

 flowers. 



