" Without a knowledge of plant life we may admire flowers and 

 trees, but it is only as strangers, only as one may admire a great 

 man or a beautiful woman in a crowd. But when one with even a 

 slight knowledge of that delightful study goes out into the woods, 

 or into one of those fairy forests which we call fields, he finds 

 himself in the company of friends, every one of whom has some- 

 thing interesting to tell."— SiYB. John Lubbock. 



" People think that when they have toiled for a long time, almost 

 all their lives, that then they will come to the flowers and the birds, 

 and be joyful in the sunshine. But no, it will not be so ; for then 

 they will be old themselves, and their ears dull and their eyes dim,, 

 so that the birds will sound a great distance off and the flowers 

 vnll not seem bright." — RiCHABD Jeffekies. 



