. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Prof, Chairmnn sfcondses L. R. Talt. sion Congress of Hortioultun- .so's catalogue, and so on. The visual memory is trained by repetition, by close application forced by the will power. It is aided by association with other sensa- tions, by the sentiments, by novelty, superlative characteristics and so on. The imagination is based on memory. We can imagine nothing that has not come mto our minds tiirouglt the senses or that is not due to some combination of ideas previously so gained. Hence the import- ance of
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Prof, Chairmnn sfcondses L. R. Talt. sion Congress of Hortioultun- .so's catalogue, and so on. The visual memory is trained by repetition, by close application forced by the will power. It is aided by association with other sensa- tions, by the sentiments, by novelty, superlative characteristics and so on. The imagination is based on memory. We can imagine nothing that has not come mto our minds tiirouglt the senses or that is not due to some combination of ideas previously so gained. Hence the import- ance of storing the memory with things worth remembering. The imagination must be guided by reason and will power to be useful, but it must be exercised ami developed mainly in youtlr, even by tlie aid of beautiful things that are not useful. The imagination is stimulated by beautiful things to imagine other beautiful combina- tions and modifications. An ancient neck- lace or a decorated book cover, seen in a museum of art, may excite the imagina- tion many years after in the designing of flower decoration. That may be both a pleasant and a useful training of the young florist's imagination, but the study of veined inarble. or clotid effects or a specimen of marine alga might be pleas- ant 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 nat- ural sciences dealing with tire materials to be handled or controlled by the florist. If he learns scientifically why certain color combinations are pleasing and cer- tain others ijispleasing 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 agricultural and plant physiology and meteorology he may sometimes avoid mistakes which others fall into through the misapplication of traditional wise saws, which often for the sake of bre
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