LESSONS WITH PLANTS 



Suggestions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of the 

 Common Forms of Vegetation 



By L. H. BAILEY 

 With delineations from nature by W. S. HOLDSWORTH, of the 



Agricultural College of Michigan 



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There are two ways of looking at nature. The old 

 way, which you have found so unsatisfactory, was to 

 classify everything to consider leaves, roots, and whole 

 plants as formal herbarium specimens, forgetting that 

 each had its own story of growth and development, 

 struggle and success, to tell. Nothing stifles a natural 

 love for plants more effectually than that old way. 



The new way is to watch the life of every growing 

 thing, to look upon each plant as a living creature, 

 whose life is a story as fascinating as the story of any 

 favorite hero. "Lessons with Plants" is a book of 

 stories, or rather, a book of plays, for we can see each 

 chapter acted out if we take the trouble to look at the 

 actors. 



"I have spent some time. in most delightful examination of it, and the longer 

 I look, the belter I like it. I find it not only full of interest, but eminently sug- 

 gestive. I know of no book which begins to do so much to open the eyes 'of the 

 student whether pupil or te:ieher-to the wealth of meanin contained in simple 

 plant forms. Above all else, it seems to be full of suggestions that help one to 

 learn the language of plants, so they may talk to him." DARWIN L. BARDWKLL, 

 Superintendent of Schools, fiiiighamton. 



" It is an admirable bonk, and cannot fail both to awaken interest in the sub- 

 ject, and to serve as a helpful and reliable guide to young students of plant life. 

 It will, I think, fill an important place in secondary schools, and comes at an op- 

 portune time, when helps of this kind are needed and eagerly sought."-Professor 

 V. M. SPALDING, University of Michigan. 



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