WILD FLOWER PRESER- 

 VATION 



CHAPTER I 

 FOREWORD 



Wild Flower Preservation for flower lovers and amateur 

 students For more advanced naturalists failing to 

 preserve plants successfully For boys and girls at 

 school Preservation of plants an art in itself No 

 haphazard performance That prosaic word "her- 

 barium" A doleful definition A dainty collection 

 of plants Poetry and flowers inseparable. 



Wild Flower Preservation has been written 

 mainly for the amateur botanist, the ordinary 

 lover of Nature who, whether living in the 

 country or visiting it only at rare holiday 

 times, yet longs to know the names and ways 

 of plants ; how they are related to one another ; 

 how they protect themselves from their ene- 

 mies whether those enemies are cows or 

 merely tiny ants and soft-bodied slugs how 



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