. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i88g. The American Florist. 107. K S\iGGtST\OH VOR K ?\\.LO\N showing in our calling. I regret that I don't know, except by name, the owners of the other two herbariums. Did the people appreciate these efforts? Indeed they did. I did not enter that hall at any time without finding some people, both men and women, pondering over the herbarium folios, not indiffer- ently or as a matter of curiosity, but crit- ically and with earnest interest. And what a refining and educating influence this sort of work imparts! Yes
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i88g. The American Florist. 107. K S\iGGtST\OH VOR K ?\\.LO\N showing in our calling. I regret that I don't know, except by name, the owners of the other two herbariums. Did the people appreciate these efforts? Indeed they did. I did not enter that hall at any time without finding some people, both men and women, pondering over the herbarium folios, not indiffer- ently or as a matter of curiosity, but crit- ically and with earnest interest. And what a refining and educating influence this sort of work imparts! Yes, and use- ful too. The donor of the premiums tells me that before he was iS years old he had been the recipient of two medals for similar herbariums, and to the interest incited in getting them up he attributes the foundation of the methodical ways that gave rise to his successful business attainments. Let us suppose that you have a family of children growing up about you. If one of them undertakes to get up an her- barium of wild flowers, every other child in your family will help him, you your- self will help him, his mother will help him, his schoolmates or fellow workmen will help him, and in so doing everyone of you are being educated. As his collec- tion of wild flowers increases, his enthu- siasm and knowledge increase, his mind broadens, and a love for flowers becomes a part of his being. Now, an herbarium is not a thing one gets up today and throws away tomorrow; it lasts "; And the older it gets and the more that is added to it the more valuable and inter- esting it becomes. And for reference what a splendid adjunct to one's business ! Parents, if you yourselves are too busy to begin this sort of thing start your chil- dren at it and I am sure the joy it will give them will be very gratifying to you. It's when the dear little wanderers—your own sweet little flower-gatherers—come bounding up to you in their delight with, "Papa, see this love
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