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wiser than the children or ourselves. It is really surprising 
how little country people know on such subjects. Farmers 
and their wives can tell you nothing on these matters. The 
men are at fault even among the trees on their own farms, 
if they are at all out of the common way ; and as for 
smaller native plants, they know less about them than Buck 
or Brindle, their own oxen.” 
Kitchen Dooryard at Wilbour Farm, Kingston, Rhode Island. 
In that delightful book, The Rescue of an Old 
Place , the author has a chapter on the love of flow- 
ers in America. It was written anent the ever- 
present statements seen in metropolitan print that 
Americans do not love flowers because they are used 
among the rich and fashionable in large cities for 
extravagant display rather than for enjoyment; and 
that we accept botanical names for our indigenous 
