. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 244 The American Florist. Mar. /J, other merchant, he has to keep qualities to suit all his patrons. The remedy for the selling of low-priced seeds it to edu- cate the farmer. The seedsman will respond mighty quick, and glad to do it. But there are some farmers, I am sorry to say, who would require Oliver Wendell Holmes' plan to reform them—begin with their grandfather. Or give them the choice of selecting their own parents— and then they wouldn't befarmers at all, but the sons of millionaires. That reminds me tha
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 244 The American Florist. Mar. /J, other merchant, he has to keep qualities to suit all his patrons. The remedy for the selling of low-priced seeds it to edu- cate the farmer. The seedsman will respond mighty quick, and glad to do it. But there are some farmers, I am sorry to say, who would require Oliver Wendell Holmes' plan to reform them—begin with their grandfather. Or give them the choice of selecting their own parents— and then they wouldn't befarmers at all, but the sons of millionaires. That reminds me that there's another notion going the rounds of late—nature study for children. The idea is to start the child of six studying botany and entomology and ornithology and zoology and geology and goodness—or badness- knows how many other 'ologies. As if the poor creature did not have trouble enough in its early years with the "three R's!' The fact is the common school curriculum is far too crowded now and the scholars have no time to lay thoronghly the foundation with the three R's. Have you ever taken a boy of fifteen into your office and found that he could spell half decent? I never have. Isn't the common sense plan of teaching the essentials thoroughly first, the best one? As it is now the child gets a whole lot of stuff and nothing thorough in any of it. And yet sensible people like Hdwin Lonsdale and Prof. Hamilton and a whole lot more like them are loud in their advocacy of "nature study" for the common school. Am I so dumb or are they mistaken? Another knotty point the Philadelphia boys have started in to wrestle with is the patenting of novelties. The trouble broke out here with Edwin Lonsdale and has been in full blast all along the line for some weeks. Lonsdale is getting to be a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustration
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