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table vegetables. The fact that in studying plants 

 he has been studying living organisms, beings 

 which think and feel, which have souls and wor- 

 ship, fellow members of a great universe, has never 

 entered his thought. The appalling thing in this 

 regarding of plants as mere things is not the ap- 

 parent slight to the plant, but the real loss to the 

 student in his lack of appreciation of the wonder 

 and beauty around him. 



It is therefore with the earnest hope that in this 

 work the young student, the future man or woman, 

 as well as the adult, may find a revelation of the 

 living things about him, that I have prepared THE 

 HUMAN SIDE OF PLANTS. 



If in its entertainment it encourages a little 

 greater interest in the other species of life, a little 

 greater love for the plant species, one of the most 

 beautiful of all forms of life, and a little greater 

 respect for the Divine Source of all Life, it will 

 have accomplished its purpose. 



ROYAL DIXON. 



NEW YORK, May, 1914, 



