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Preface 



In that the aim of this little volume is the stimula- 

 tion of an observant love of nature, and espe- 

 cially the increase of knowledge about our plants, 

 it is similar to "How to Know the Wild Flowers? ' 

 'But in each book this has been attempted in so 

 different a mood and manner that I feel confi- 

 dent that neither encroaches upon the province 

 of the other. The present classification if a 

 word so suggestive of technicalities can be used 

 is " according to season," and incidentally, 

 locality, enabling the reader to start upon each 

 tour of discovery with so clear a notion as to 

 what he may expect to find, and where he may 

 expect to find it, as materially to increase the 

 chances of a successful expedition. 



Thanks are due to the editor of the Tribune for 

 permission to republish the articles which ap- 

 peared in his journal last summer. 



FRANCES THEODORA DANA. 

 NEW YORK, March 5, 1894. 



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