BOTANY ,„,,,, 



NEW VOI?K 



The Story of botanical 



Plant Life 



By JULIA Mac NAIR WRIGHT 



Author of " Nature Readers, Seaside and Wayside," 

 " Astronomy," etc. 



ILLUSTRATED 



" Flower in the crannied wall ! 



I pluck you out of the crannies ; 



I hold you here, root and all in my hand, 



Little flower — if I could but understand 



What you are, root and all, and all in all^ 



I should know what God and man is." 



— Tennyson. 



Philadelphia 



The Penn Publishing Company 



1898 



