CHAPTER III 

 A NATURE NOTE-BOOK 



A necessity to students Records of plant structure 

 Locality and date of "finds" Your own observa- 

 tions Drawings of plants 'Various kinds of Nature 

 Notes Record of the months Notes a reflection of 

 yourself The poetry of flowers. 



I CAN imagine that some students may ask why 

 the Nature Note-book one item in the botani- 

 cal outfit should have a chapter to itself. 



My reply is because it is the most impor- 

 tant item in that outfit; more important than 

 your herbarium, if you mean to have one, and 

 in a sense even more important than your Flora 

 and other botanical works. 



This Note-book is to be the record of the 

 plants you find. It will contain not only the 

 brief details of each plant given in the Flora, 

 but the accumulated information about each 

 that you gather from time to time from other 

 books and magazines, and more important still, 



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