Photograph by Harriet Chalmers Adams 



A FLOWER SELLER OF YOKOHAMA, JAPAN 



The Japanese are a merry people, those who work hardest being- the most cheerful. Their 

 flower carts are in striking contrast to the ugly, squeaking wheelbarrows of the Chinese peddlers. 

 The Japanese love flowers above all things, their floral calendar for the twelve months of the 

 year (the first being February) reading: pine, plum, peach, cherry, wisteria, iris, morning 

 glory, lotus, "seven grasses," chrysanthemum, maple, and camellia. 



Realizing that nothing can be absorbed 

 into the child's life unless it has an inter- 

 est for him, these pictures are chosen and 

 arranged primarily for his needs and 

 growth. Based on an intimate acquain- 

 tance with innumerable educators and 

 thorough familiarity with courses of 

 study and methods of teaching in every 

 State, they are fitted in every way to 

 actual school-room conditions. 



HOW THE PICTURES ARE ARRANGED 



Arranged in sets of 24 and 48 pictures 

 on special topics, they illustrate definite 

 parts of the curriculum, with about two 

 hundred words of interesting text accom- 

 panying each picture. 



They are printed on sheets nine by 

 eleven inches, with the text beneath in 

 large, clear type which can be read easily 

 by children. The paper chosen has the 

 same fine finish as that used in the Maga- 

 zine, but is from four to five times as 



heavy, so that the pictures may be easily 

 and safely handled, and also stiff" enough 

 to stand up around the chalk rail if so de- 

 sired. To cap the sheaf, each set con- 

 tains two or four pictures in full color. 



The pictures themselves are chosen 

 largely from the thousands published 

 within the last few years in the Magazine, 

 so that much of the expense has already 

 been met. Moreover, the methods and 

 aims of the National Geographic Society 

 make it especially fitted and prepared for 

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Because the Society is not a commer- 

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