Kit; 



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casual acquaintance in the street, to running across the real 

 nature-lover taken red-handed in the woods. 



One of my chief delights in the home-study of botany is, as I 

 have said, the photography of wild flowers, which is something I 

 have done for a good many years, and trust to do for a good many 



more. This part of my story, 

 however, would make quite a 

 little volume; even the 

 main particulars would 

 form a pretty long article. 

 So that must be left for 

 another time, and for the 

 present the photographs here 

 reproduced must stand for 

 the demonstration of my 

 methods in various lines of 

 photography. However, I 

 would say that there are a 

 score or more of delightful 

 and popular books on the 

 botany of the Eastern United 

 States in the market at pres- 

 ent; all the other appliances 

 required, such as presses, 

 microscopes, and other need- 

 ed* accessories, can be obtain- 

 ed at any of the first-class 

 biological establishments. 



In closing this article I 

 want to answer a question 

 which has frequently been 

 put to me, with respect to 

 which part of the world I have enjoyed the most in pursuing such 

 studies; I will also take occasion to register a protest here 

 against the wanton destruction of wild flowers in the environs of 

 our cities and towns. 



At different times in my life it has been my fortune, as well as 

 my privilege, to have passed through forests, rambled over fields, 

 and climbed the sides of mountains in not a few, very different 

 parts of the world. Early in my life — indeed in my boyhood — at 



Fig. 3. One of the early ferns. Note 



the "Daddy-long-legs hiding in 



one of the fronds. 



