too much for it. But to return to the beans. Why hold them firmly? 
Does the bean struggle? 
I know it is eccentric, for I have seen it when it first emerges from 
the ground. Not content to grow up like any other self-respecting veg- 
etable, it tries to loop itself over into a croquet wdcket, or, like an 
ostrich, hides its head in the sand. But its antics are of no avail. Bos- 
ton is its destiny, there to be baked until resistance is gone. 
All this is because the bean lacks the imagination that would take 
it from its life of dull routine and narrow destiny. Can it be that the 
bean has a kind of resurrection in the brains of professors and savants 
of Cambridge? It can be. As the bulb flowers into the lily, so the bean 
is transformed into thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 
Life. 
How many gardeners know that a bed of common marigolds will Birds and 
attract the American gold finch, or "wild canary"? That they de- Marigolds 
pended upon thistles for a part of their floral diet I already knew, but 
the marigold discovery is a new one, and they are a charming bit of 
living color with the yellow and orange of that rather despised flower. 
They also add to the animate part of a garden, such a fascinating 
part, for who could look with indifference at butter-flies hovering over 
buddleia, or at bees above a cranberry bog, or on night moths, or 
fire-flies or those absurd little glow-worms who celebrate their joy of 
living by kindling small fires in their tail-ends? 
Those who have not been fortunate enough to see for themselves The Ware 
this remarkable collection, will be interested in the following article Collection 
contributed by Mrs. Walter James. of Glass 
" Having for many years heard of the wonderful beauty and rare Flowers 
workmanship of the Ware Collection of glass models of flowers in the 
University Museum at Cambridge, I stopped there on my way to the 
Annual Meeting in June. My keen expectation was more than realized 
for the collection is so perfect in detail that no amateur description 
can do it justice. Here are models strangely true to life of all the 
plants and flowers with which we are so familiar, and in their most 
perfect forms, and also flowers of other countries, some of which are 
not seen in our Botanical Gardens. A very interesting and instructive 
feature especially valuable to students, is the representation of various 
parts and organs of the flowers enlarged, to make their character and 
purpose plain, dissections in what might be called magnified fac- 
simile. A fascinating part of the exhibition is devoted to the relation 
of insects to flowers, with especial reference to cross-fertilization. 
These insects like all the other parts, are entirely of glass, accurate and 
perfect in every detail. For instance, a large and beautiful flower 
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