De APPLETON: &-€O!S PUBLICATIONS. 

AMITIAR. FLOWERS OF FIELD AND 
GARDEN. By F. ScHuYLER MATHEws. Illustrated with 
200 Drawings by the Author, and containing an elaborate Index 
showing at a glance the botanical and popular names, family, 
color, locality, environment, and time of bloom of several hun- 
dred flowers. 12mo. Library Edition, cloth, $1.75 ; Pocket 
Edition, flexible covers, $2.25. 
In this convenient and useful volume the flowers which one finds in the fields are 
identified, illustrated, and described in familiar language. Their connection with gar- 
den flowers is made clear. Particular attention is drawn to the beautiful ones which 
have come under cultivation, and, as the title indicates, the book furnishes a ready 
guide to a knowledge of wild and cultivated flowers alike. 
‘<T have examined Mr. Mathews’s little book upon ‘ Familiar Flowers of Field and 
Garden,’ and | have pleasure in commending the accuracy and beauty of the drawings 
and the freshness of the text. We have long needed some botany from the hand of an 
artist, who sees form and color without the formality of the scientist. ‘The book deserves 
a reputation.”—Z. H. Bailey, Professor of Horticulture, Cornell University. 
<‘T am much pleased with your ‘Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden.’ It is a 
useful and handsomely prepared handbook, and the elaborate index is an especially 
valuable part of it. Taken in connection with the many careful drawings, it would 
seem as though your little volume thoroughly covers its subject.’’—Louis Prang. 
*< The author describes in a most interesting and charming manner many familiar 
wild and cultivated plants, enlivening his remarks by crisp epigrams, and rendering 
identification of the subjects described simple by means of some two hundred draw- 
ings from Nature, made by his own pen. . . . The book will do much to more fully 
acquaint the reader with those plants of field and garden treated upon with which he 
may be but partly familiar, and go a long way toward correcting many popular 
errors existing in the matter of colors of their flowers, a subject to which Mr. Mathews 
has devoted much attention, and on which he is now a recognized authority in the 
trade.’— New York Florists Exchange. 
“* A book of much value and interest, admirabiy arranged for the student and the 
lover of flowers. . . . Thetext is full of compact information, well selected and interest- 
ingly presented. . . . It seems to us to be a most attractive handbook of its kind.” — 
New York Sun. 
“*A delightful book and very useful. Its language is plain and familiar, and the 
illustrations are dainty works of art. It is just the book for those who want to be 
familiar with the well-known flowers, those that grow in the cultivated gardens as well 
as those that blossom in the fields.”,— Newark Daily Advertiser. 
“«Seasonable and valuable. The young botanist and the Jover of flowers, who have 
only studied from Nature, will be greatly aided by this work.” —/Pittsburg Post. 
“‘Charmingly written, and to any one who loves the flowers—and who does not ?— 
will prove no less fascinating than instructive. It will open up in the garden and the 
fields a new world full of curiosity and delight, and invest them with a new interest in 
his sight.” —Chvistian Work. 
““ One need not be deeply read in floral lore to be interested in what Mr. Mathews 
has written, and the more proficient one is therein the greater his satisfaction is likely 
to be.”—New York Mail and Express. 
““Mr. F. Schuyler Mathews’s careful description and graceful drawings of our 
‘Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden’ are fitted to make them familiar even to those 
who have not before made their acquaintance.” —New Vork Evening Post. 

New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue. 
