By Mrs. William Starr Dana 



HOW TO KNOW THE 

 FLOWERS 



WILD 



By MRS. WILLIAM STARR DANA 



With 48 Colored Plates and New Black and White 

 Drawings, Enlarged, Rewritten and Entirely Reset 



A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of our Native 

 Wild Flowers. With 48 full-page colored plates by 

 Elsie Louise Shaw, and no full-page illustrations 

 by Marion Satterlee. Sixtieth Thousand. 

 Crown 8vo, $2.00 net. 



This new edition has been enlarged, revised, and entirely 

 reset, the illustrations have been remade, and it has in addition 

 48 full-page colored plates from drawings by Miss Elsie Louise 

 Shaw, made especially for this edition. The Nation says : 

 " Every flower-lover who has spent weary hours puzzling over 

 a botanical key in the efforts to name unknown plants, will 

 welcome this satisfactory book, which stands ready to lead him 

 to the desired knowledge by a royal road. The book is well 

 fitted to the need of man)' who have no botanical knowledge 

 and yet are interested in wild flowers." 



" I am delighted with it. . . . It is so exactly the kind of work needed 

 for outdoor folks who live in the country but know little of systematic botany, 

 that it is a wonder no one has written it before."— Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. 

 " It is not often that a book so suggestive of pleasure, pure and simple, 

 comes our way. So far as we recall books on flowers, it is the first that makes 

 country walks an intelligent joy for those who know nothing of botany but 

 who have eyes to see and minds to question."— The New York Times. 



• " Every flower-lover who has spent weary hours puzzling over a botanical 

 key in the effort to name unknown plants, will welcome this satisfactory book, 

 which stands ready to lead him to the desired knowledge by a roval road." 



— The Nation. 



" It is exactly what has long been wanted by one who loves nature and 

 longs to be formally introduced — so to speak — that is, to know her treasures 

 by name, but who has not time to study botany. Your arrangement by colors 

 is a great help to ready reference, and the illustrations are invaluable." 



—Olive Thome Miller. 



" Mrs. Dana is a lover of outdoor life ; her heart is in what she describes. 

 She has done well a piece of work which was well worth doing."— The Critic. 



"An excellent book, and cannot fail to bring about its object. Very ex- 

 cellent illustrations, nearly all of which are original drawings from nature." 



—Nature Notes, London. 



