LESSONS WITH PLANTS 



Suggestions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of the Common Forms 



of Vegetation. 



By L. H. BAILEY, 



Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell University, with delineations from nature 

 by W. S. HOLDSWORTH, of the University of Michigan. 



523 pages. 446 Illustrations. $1.10. 



This volume is a most admirable text-book on botany, and is adapted to 

 class use in high schools. It includes Studies of Twigs and Buds; Studies of 

 Leaves and Foliage ; Studies of Flowers ; Studies of the Fructification ; Studies 

 of the Propagation of Plants; Studies of the Behavior and Habits of Plants ; 

 Studies of the Kind of Plants; Suggestions and Reviews. 



BAILEY'S " LESSONS WITH PLANTS " is just the thing for you if you are ready 

 for something new, stimulating, suggestive, inspiring. It will give you a new 

 point of view. You will see plants as living beings, not as mere specimens to 

 be classified, labelled, and hidden away. The book is full of pictures. It is a 

 guide and interpreter not to musty museum cases, but to wonderful, joyous, 

 outdoor life. 



There are two ways of looking at nature. The old way, which you have found 

 so unsatisfactory, was to classify everything to consider leaves, roots, and 

 whole plants as formal herbarium specimens, forgetting that each had its own 

 story of growth and development, struggle, and success to tell. Nothing stifles 

 a natural love for plants more effectually than that old way. 



The new way is to watch the life of every growing thing, to look upon each 

 plant as a living creature, whose life is a story as fascinating as the story of any 

 favorite hero. " Lessons with Plants " is a book of stories, or rather a book of 

 plays, for we can see each chapter acted out, if we take the trouble to look at 

 the actors. It is a book, too, that enables any one to read Nature's stories for 

 himself. 



You want to keep abreast of the nature-study movement ; so do all progres- 

 sive, earnest teachers. Why not lay aside the old, systematic, formal, cut-and- 

 dried method, and take that which is free, natural, and informal ? 



" Bailey's ' Lessons with Plants ' has life in it. It is a book to awaken in every 

 pupil the impulse to study things and real Life. It is an ideal book, and in 

 method and matter furnishes the strongest kind of stimulus to a true and living 

 interest in plant life." 



FIRST LESSONS WITH PLANTS. 



The first twenty chapters of the larger work described above. 

 117 pages. n<> Illustrations. Cloth. lamo. 40 cents. 



All of the illustrations of the original appear in these selected chapters, which 

 are in no way abbreviated. 



"A remarkably well printed and illustrated book, extremely original, and 

 unusually practical." H. W. FOSTER, Ithaca, N.Y. 



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