For cHature Lovers 



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A STANDARD AUTHORITY 



HOW TO KNOW THE WILD FLOWERS 



By Mrs. William Starr Dana (Mrs. Parsons) 



A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of our Common Wild Flowers. With 48 

 full-page colored plates by Elsie Louise Shaw, and no full-page illustrations by 

 Marion Satterlee. 60th thousand. Crown Svo, $2.00 net. 



OF all the aids to the study of nature none has won a wider popularity than Mrs. William Starr 

 Dana's ' How to Know the Wild Flowers.' Here accurate science is r ut m a simple, practical 

 form, and presented with unusual grace of style, and the book has become the favorite companion for 

 open-air rambles of flower-lovers who were daunted by the dry paiticularity of the average botany." — 

 Chicago Evening Post. 



T^VERY flower-lover who has spent weary hours puzzling over a botanical key, in the effort to 

 -*— ' name unknown plants, will welcome this satisfactory book, which stands ready to lead him to the 

 desired knowledge by a royal road. The book is well fitted to the need of many who have no botani- 

 cal knowledge and yet are interested in wild flowers.''— The Nation. 



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HOW TO KNOW THE FERNS 



A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of our Native Ferns. By Frances 

 Theodora Parsons (Mrs. Dana). With 144 full-page illustrations, and 6 full- 

 page illustrations from photographs. Crown Svo, #1.50 net. 



THIS is a notably thorough little volume. The text is not voluminous, ard even with its many 

 full-page illustrations the book is small ; but brevity, as we are glad to see so many writers on 

 nature learning, is the first of virtues in this field. . . The author of ' How to Know he Ferns ' has 

 mastered her subject and she treats of it with authority."- New York Tribune. 



OF the ferns, as of the flowers, she writes as one who not only knows but loves them. The charm 

 of her fern book is as irresistible and pervading as is the charm of nature itself. This gifted and 

 enthusiastic naturalist knows the ferns literally ' like a book,' and her book makes the first lesson of 

 the novice in the lore of fern-life an easy and delightful task."— New York Mail and Express. 



* ** A new edition of Mrs. Dana s popular book "According to Season," with 

 much additional matter and 32 plates in color, is in preparation. 



OUR NATIVE TREES 



AND HOW TO IDENTIFY THEM 

 By Harriet L. Keeler 



With 178 full-page illustrations from photographs, and with 102 illustrations from 

 drawings. Second edition. Crown Svo, $2.00 net. 



C. S. SARGENT, Professor of Arboriculture in Harvard University, says: 



OF such popular books the latest and by far the most interesting is by Miss Harriet L. Keeler, 

 . . . Miss Keeler's descriptions are clear, compact, and well arranged, and the technical matter 

 is supplemented by much interesting and reliable information concerning the economical uses, the 

 history, and the origin of the trees which she describes." 



CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 



PUBLISHERS, 

 NEW YORK. 



