BOOKS ON GARDEN 

 FIELD AND WOOD 



How to Know the Wild 

 Flowers 



By MRS. WILLIAM STARR DANA 



With 48 colored plates and new black-and-white drawings, 

 enlarged, rewritten, and entirely reset. 



A guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our native 

 wild flowers. With 48 full-page colored plates by 

 ELSIE LOUISE SHAW, and no full-page illustrations 

 by MARION SATTERLEE. Crown 8vo, $2.00 net. 



" Readers will find that even a bowing acquaintance with 

 the flowers repays one generously for the effort expended in its 

 achievement," says the author in her introduction. " Such an 

 acquaintance serves to transmute the tedium of a railway journey 

 into the excitement of a tour of discovery. It causes the monot- 

 ony of a drive through an ordinarily uninteresting country to be 

 forgotten in the diversion of noting the wayside flowers, and 

 counting a hundred different species where formerly less than a 

 dozen would have been detected. It invests each boggy meadow 

 and bit of rocky woodland with almost irresistible charm." 



"She has systematized her facts in a compact and convenient 

 form. She is practical and terse, and is also alive to the things 

 which are not entirely matters of fact." New York Tribune. 



Miss C. W. Hunt, Superintendent of Children's Department, 

 Brooklyn Public Library, says: "Get this book if you only carry 

 one flower book on your vacation." 



"Particularly noteworthy for its beautiful colored plates, 

 about fifty in number. So beautifully were these made that in 

 many cases the actual flower seems starting from the page, and 

 one can almost fancy the perfume, too, is in evidence." 



New York Times. 



