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The gathering of plants to be used in schools as specimens for class instruction can be obviated by school authorities arranging to purchase such supplies from botanic gardens or nurseries where they have been
Bird-foot Violet (Viola pedata).
raised in large numbers for the purpose. Such an arrangement has been made between a few teachers of botany in Boston, and the
Plymouth Mayflower, Trailing Abbutus (Epigæa repens).
directors of the Bussey Institute of Harvard University. Well might a portion of city parks and public gardens be devoted to the raising of such plants as are in demand for botanical instruction. The farmer's
