110 WINTER GREENERIES AT HOME. 



unlike the perfume of flowers. Afterwards, with better 

 counsel, success was complete the long white roots filling 

 every part of the glass, or large-neck bottle, and the beau- 

 tiful vines retaining their foliage well through the season. 

 It was a greenery which could not fail to interest the little 

 folks, and might well delight even "children of a larger 

 growth." 



After these primary lessons in plant life the visible 

 germination and growth of seeds and tubers have lost 

 their novelty for the restless, growing youngsters in your 

 homes, what then ? Why, of course, let them advance to 

 something higher a rooted cutting, a little box of tiny 

 plants in pots, a hanging-basket made of a cocoanut-shell 

 and filled with soil and plants "just like yours." Thus 

 you give them in their earliest years just what they especi- 

 ally need as a part of their home education, something to 

 do something "all their own," to be interested in, to 

 care for, to learn about, to grow with their growth and 

 live in their life. 



Could your experiments in floriculture have a better 

 accompaniment than their efforts at imitation ? Or a 

 grander final result than their best culture and yours ? 

 What splendid opportunities you have ! May you fully 

 succeed in joining with the bloom of plants the flowering 

 of beautiful character, and thus find in a simple "Kin- 

 dergarten " the happiest use and highest worth of winter 

 greeneries at home. 



FINIS. 



