to spiritual teaching. They teach humility SI-'.NTIMKNT 

 and faith. 



What beautiful thoughts grow in our "gar- 

 den of thoughts"! The flowers and the 

 thoughts grow together. Sentiment gathers 

 about them as surely as their own perfume. 

 The very history of the plants is full of poetry 

 and romance. 



To write the romance of "Social Botany" 

 will require a gifted pen, and when written it 

 will be an entrancing tale. Go into your gar- 

 den and ask your trees and shrubs and flowers 

 whence they came, and they w T ill tell you of 

 seedlings collected in forests and of seeds ob- 

 tained from the farthest corners of the earth, 

 many of them secured through adventure and 

 peril, the recital of which compels admiration, 

 and brought to their present perfection by a 

 patient application of scientific method in hy- 

 bridization of which the untrained mind can 

 form no adequate conception. 



Who can look upon a " Dawson " rose, know- 

 ing its history, and not let thought go back to 



