298 DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND PLANTS 
ORNAMENTAL PLANTS 
Along with utility goes beauty, and the human animal has 
long surrounded his habitation with such flowering and other 
ornamental plants as happened to strike his fancy. The list is 
indefinitely long and the species are exceedingly varied. Whether 
for flower, fruit, or foliage, the number and variety of plants 
that minister to beauty are bewildering, and both are being 
rapidly increased by breeding. 
Here is a world of beauty and of interest, not only to the 
artist but to the breeder, into which we can only glance and 
catch a glimpse in passing. We all admire the grace and fra- 
grance of the rose, as well as its variety of form and color, 
ranging from the stately American Beauty of the hothouse to 
the delicate moss rose of the garden. This admiration is in- 
creased to wonder when we realize that they have all developed 
from the common wild rose that clambers over our fences and 
brightens our hedges in all the eastern United States, and that 
planted a multitude of bright eyes in the western prairies long 
before man was there to see. 
There is no more fascinating work than the bringing out of 
new forms of plant beauty, and young men and women who 
have the artistic sense developed, will find much in this realm 
of nature to stimulate to still further appreciation of the beau- 
tiful, and to show what may be done with the materials which 
the All-Father has placed in our hands, and the great principles 
with which he has taught us to work. 
WEEDS 
Just as certain species of animals have attached themselves 
to us and our affairs without invitation, and continue without 
welcome, so have certain species of plants invaded our fields 
and. gardens, quite against our desires and greatly to our 
1 Showing the mistake of the notion that all beauty was made expressly for 
man’s enjoyment. 
