56 KAEE PLANTS TO BE RESPECTED. 



hard to learn, the blame is most likely not with the plant. Do not be 

 too impatient, wishing to jump in at a dash, but proceed deliberately, 

 step by step, taking care to understand, as you go on, what has been 

 done, and what there is still to do. Lastly, when in the fields, and 

 the locality of a rare plant has been found by means of this book, do 

 not root it up. The true botanist loves to see plants living and grow- 

 ing, and it is only the mean and selfish who would pluck up a 

 rarity, perhaps the only and last blossom, merely to make a mummy 

 of it and call it a " specimen." 



