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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
self have all the varieties I can find, as in the beans, I have 
no less than forty kinds of every color and spotted and 
blotched; but they are mostly labeled ''85 Phaseolus vulgar- 
is/' This is the gayest drawer in the cabinet, but the nuts 
are equally lovely. 
If any wise man says this is childish, he is welcome 
to his opinion. Don't we all know it is good to be children 
once in a while ? Whether we call it work or play, I know 
there is much of botany we will learn in this pursuit, that 
might altogether slip by us otherwise, because we are al- 
ways looking for flowers. 
The dried weeds are not attractive, and we hardly see 
them, except to think they are a blot on the landscape ; but 
only when we are collecting seeds do they look interesting. 
I commend you all to the study of seeds and seed 
vessels, and assure you a new world of wonders will be 
revealed. 
Orange, Cal. 
HAT brainy and ubiquitous race on the bleak hills of 
Scotia is well represented on the northwest 
coast of \merica ; and, loving his own hills not less, but his 
opportunity to grow more, he would bring some little re- 
minder of his auld hame with him ; so, when he sits down 
to home making, figuratively squat'^, on a quarter section, 
he must have a wee bit of the furze and a sprig of his broom ; 
and they are forthwith rooted in this generous soil. 
Scotch Broom (Cyfisits scopariiis) was introduced into 
Western Oregon about fifty years ago; now, it bids fair to 
become a prolific acquisition to the diversified flora of the 
northwest. Having become naturalized it is able to pre- 
empt any of the unoccupied territory and, like the fox 
OTHER SCOTCH IMMIGRANTS. 
BY A. S. FOSTER. 
