The Forrest City times., 1891-03-20

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 TO BE CONTINUED
 BOTANY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
 It May he Made . Profitable and Ee ter.
 taining Study.
 Many arc under the impression that to study botany means simply to learn Latin names. and that the knowledge of these names is it's own only end and aim. If this were true botany would indeed be a dry and not very useful study, d. though there, would still be some benefit in being able to speak of plants exactly instead of inexactly, and to speak of any possible plant instead of comparatively restricted number. But to learn Latin names Is only the first step in learning to know the plants they rspressnt-a need full step if ones knowledge is ever to amount to much, but in no ssnse an end or aim. When simple handbook can be used 60 that the name of plant can be found in it Qhs common name always appearing with the scientific), then all other facts about the plant can hs read at Q glance and unless this can be done most of these facts will never b gath cred Knowing the name, ws find the manner of the plants growth. the re- gions where it is common or rare. the character of the spots where it may most hopefully be looked for. it. seasons of blooming and fruiting. and it's relationship to other species, with the facts upon which this relation ship is founded. as well as those which make its own individuality clear. Is not all this worth knowing. even at the cost of dealing for the moment with the ugliest of Latin names If child finds a rosy Arethusa with twin blossoms, will not his pleasure in it and his desire to search for other flowers both be stimu- lated by the knowledge that his treasure is a very rare one2 Or if he discovers that the pretty little Bunch-berry, which carpets some woody spot :s first cousin to some big Towering Dogwood. and discovers, too, the reason why. will not his interest in it be increasedg Lot him learn why an Orchid is an Orchid, why the tiny Ladies Presses deserve the name as much as the gorgeous Cattieya or Oncidium of the greenhouse, and he has gained something which surely can not decrease his enjoyment of the beauty of either.
 But to do this. 1t may be objected, beautiful flowers must be pulled to pieces, and this will "deaden the sense of beauty" By no means Tho truth is quite the other way. No one who has not once pulled flower to pieces can realize in the great majority of cases, how beautiful 1t Is. All its beauty is not in It's larger features or on the outside of its cup In the interior, in tue hidden recesses where the great work of reproduction goes on in a myriad different ways, each more marvellous and admirable than the other --here resides great part of the beauty of all flowers and the greater part of the beauty of not few. Even if it led to nothing but a knowledge of Natures delight in making the tiniest features of her productions lovely to our eyes, the close examination of floral structures would be we'll worth many hours of a busy mans time Once this has been learned. we do not need always to see it Seeing the flower as . whole, we not only know it's name, habits and relation ships, but remember it's structure The exterior suggests the interior. and . knowledge of he interior explains the lovely individuality of the snvslop& Even the slightest smattering of botani- cal knowledge will greatly increase in. stead of lessening the enjoy msnt of any ono who by nature has any love for flowers.
 To learn enough to widen ens's inter est in naturs's products in not . very difficult task. Indeed, there is no other science in which beginning is 70 easily made or gives % large . return in pleasure. Materials for study are everywhere at hand: no. travelling is needed, no great exertion and no outlay of money. The useful tools are as easily procured. A single handbook will give all requisite preliminary instruction, full descriptions of all plants within . very wide area. . glossary of terms to help out the weakest memory. diction. ary of common namea With knife, . long pin. and . common magnify ing glass the student has all he wants: and plants, even when withered and dis sected, make litter to which no mother would object, as she might to the ma- ,erials of the boy who has passion for flying and creeping things A few weeks of work, with living plants to illustrate the printed text will ssem more like play than work. and will on. able any young person to identify all the plants in the neighborhood of his homo or all the sciences, this is the ono whose study should mect with every encouragement as happy and useful employment for our young folks sum. mer hours -tGarden and Forest
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