PUBLISHERS' PREFACE 



GRAY'S SCHOOL AND FIELD BOOK OF BOTANY. 



This work consists of the "Lessons in Botany" and the "Field, 

 Forest, and Garden Botany," bound together in one complete volume, 

 forming a most popular and comprehensive School Botany, adapted to 

 beginners and advanced classes, to Agricultural Colleges and Schools, as well 

 as to all other grades in Mhich the science is taught. It is also adapted for 

 use as a handbook to assist iu analyzing plants and flowers in tield study of 

 botany either by classes or individuals. 



The book is intended to furnish Botanical Classes and beginners with an 

 easier introduction to the Plants of this country, and a niucli more compre- 

 hensive work, than the Manual. 



Beginning with the frst principles, it progresses by easy stages until the 

 student who is at all diligent is enabled to master the intricacies of the 

 science. 



It is a Grammar and Dictionarij of Botany, and comprises the common 

 Herbs, Shrubs, and Trees of the Southern asi well as the Northern and Middle 

 States, including the commonly cultivated as well as the native species in 

 fields, (lardens, pleasure grounds, or house culture, and even the consei-vatonj 

 plants ordinarily met with. 



