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when we have grasped the fact that in the world, of flowers 

 or elsewhere, ' 'there is no beauty apart from use." 



Study 38. Summer Wild Flowers 



The program of work for this study should include a trip 

 to the field for collecting wild flowers and studying their 

 characters and habits. All the showier sorts of wild flowers 

 of one small locality should be observed, gathered and 

 compared. They will be found in uncultivated places by 

 the roadside and streamside and in the woods. They will 

 show great differences in color and form and attractions to 

 insect visitors. Many of their characters will appear curious 

 and inexplicable if studied only indoors and apart from their 

 environment; but in the field, when the day is bright and 

 calm and insects are abundant, one may see exactly what 

 the most puzzling of floral structures are good for, by seeing 

 their mechanism in action. 



The record of this study may consist of an annotated list 

 of the flowers studied, illustrated with a few simple diagrams 

 of flowers or clusters, etc., where possible. 



The notes should cover: kind of plant, manner and place 

 of growth, sort of flower-clusters, of flower, its color, odor, and 

 general attractiveness to visitors and means of attracting 

 them. 



