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Take your botany can on a trip toward the end 

 of November and see how many blossoming flowers 

 you can bring home from the woods. Wild flowers 

 after Thanksgiving in any northern state? Make 

 the search, on all the southern slopes and in all the 

 sheltered corners and see for yourselves. When you 

 get back, you will want to read Mr. Bradford Torrey 's 

 account of the flowers that he found blossoming out 

 of doors in New England in the month of Novem- 

 ber. But who is Mr. Bradford Torrey ? and where 

 can you find this account of his November walk ? 

 You do not know? Well, then there is something 

 more for you to do this fall. 



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While you are finding out who Mr. Torrey is and 

 what he has written, you should also get acquainted 

 with John Burroughs, Olive Thorne Miller, Thoreau, 

 Frank Bolles, William Hamilton Gibson, C. C. Ab- 

 bott, Edward B reck, Gilbert White, and but these 

 will do for this fall. Don't fail to read dear old 

 Gilbert White's " Natural History of Selborne " ; 

 though perhaps we grown-ups like it better than you 

 may this fall. If you don't understand Gilbert White, 

 then read this year " The Life of a Scotch Natural- 

 ist "by Samuel Smiles, and Arabella Buckley's two 

 books, " Life and Her Children," and " Winners in 

 Life's Race." 



