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fair, — drawings, compositions, letters, written examinations, 

 copy books, botany work, consisting of pressed leaves and 

 flowers, with descriptions of the plants, collections of woods, 

 grasses, and grains, insects, stuffed birds, etc., and as the 

 children crowded with great delight into their own de])art- 

 ment, they were heard saying, " We'll have something here 

 next year ! " " We'll do better yet next year ! " Perhaps you 

 may get some new ideas from hearing about this work of 

 theirs. This we think you might do, boys: — collect speci- 

 mens of all the different kinds of wood you can find growing 

 in your town, or beyond the limits of your town — county, if 

 you like, — take a little section of each kind, cut so as to 

 show the grain of the wood, if you can, with a pressed leaf 

 of the tree numbered to correspond with the piece of wood, — 

 that's the way those boys did, — and see how many kinds you 

 can find. Those boys found fifty-six different kinds ; do 

 you think you could get as many ? I think you would in 

 that way learn more about the trees of our own section of 

 country than you ever knew before. Try it, will you ? 



At the Summer Fair, which was held a few years ago for 

 the benefit of the Society, a flower stand was erected, where the 

 children, through the three days of the Fair, sold flowers, which 

 brought in quite a little sum to the Society. We think if the 

 same plan were adopted at our Annual Fairs, a few dollars, 

 at least, might be realized. Let the friends of the Society, 

 of children, and of flowers, contribute for the occasion small 

 bunches of flowers, " button-hole bouquets," slips of plants in 

 little pots rooted, ready for winter growing, and children 

 enough will be found who will be delighted to act as retail 

 dealers for the occasion. 



And now, children, good-bye for another year. Glad that 

 you are improving ; and each year, as the Fair closes, 



