PARK AND CEMETERY. 
V 
combination of ideas previously so 
gained. Hence the importance of 
storing the memory with things 
worth remembering. The imagina- 
tion must be guided by reason and 
will power to be useful, but it must 
be exercised and developed mainly in 
youth, even by the aid of beautiful 
things that are not useful. The imagi- 
nation is stimulated by beautiful 
things to imagine other beautiful 
combinations and modifications. An 
ancient necklace or a decorated book 
cover, seen in a museum of art, may 
excite the imagination many years 
after in the designing of flower deco- 
ration. That may be both a pleasant 
and a useful training of the young 
florist’s imagination, but the study of 
veined marble, or cloud effects or a 
specimen of marine alga might be 
pleasant but probably useless to the 
florist. 
The reasoning faculty may be 
trained in various ways but may best 
be trained by the study of cause and 
effect in the natural sciences dealing 
with the materials to be handled or 
controlled by the florist. If he learns 
scientifically why certain color com- 
binations are pleasing and certain 
others displeasing he can act as the 
result of reasoning when the time 
comes instead of trusting to his own 
sensations or to what people say or 
to tradition. If he has studied agri- 
cultural chemistry and plant physi- 
ology and meteorology he may some- 
times avoid mistakes which others 
fall into through the misapplication 
of traditional wise saws, which often 
for the sake of brevity or of a catch- 
ing rhyme convey a half truth or 
even a falsehood. 
The training of other faculties need 
not be enlarged upon. The inference 
to be drawn is that if the floris't is 
to have such an education as will fit 
him to produce beautiful floral deco- 
ration and to make his vocation com- 
pare in aesthetic standing with that of 
the architect and the artist, mural 
decorator and (let no offense be tak- 
en) with the landscape architect; he 
should cultivate his creative aesthetic 
faculties at least as thoroughly and 
by much the same means of art 
schools, museums, reading, converse 
with artists, travel and observation 
and by the solution of many prob- 
lems of artistic design. 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
(Continued from p. 210) 
The High Point Cemetery Association 
of Buffalo, Oklahoma, has been incor- 
porated by R. G. McMinn, W. H. Tem- 
ple, Charles Johnson, George Anderson, 
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