ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



These flower stories originally appeared, the greater number of 

 them, in the Oakland Tribune. They were written by request of 

 the Sunday editor for the magazine section of that paper. The arti- 

 cles have been carefully revised and many items of interest added 

 thereto. As to my son's share in this labor of love, I wish to say 

 that the stories appearing in this volume under his name were origin- 

 ally prepared by him, but were included in the group first published 

 in the Tribune under my name. In the midst of activities connected 

 with a summer camp for city children, with many groups of boys or 

 girls and their various leaders coming and going, I found it difficult 

 to devote the necessary time entailed in the preparation of such 

 subjects. I could hardly have finished the task without Roland's 

 loyal assistance and sympathetic support. 



I wish to thank the kind friends in all parts of the State who 

 have encouraged us in the preparation of this volume. We are 

 especially indebted to Mrs. Roxana Ferris, of the Dudley Herbarium 

 at Stanford University, and to Dr. LeRoy Abrams, also of Stanford 

 University, the most able of botanists, for valuable assistance in the 

 identification of difficult species and in the scientific nomenclature of 

 the same. 



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COPYRIGHT 1920 

 By BERTHA M. RICE 



