52 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



it should receive the records of your own ob- 

 servations. 



A Nature Note-book is a necessity to the 

 earnest student, and by that I do not neces- 

 sarily mean the leisured student. Greater leis- 

 ure will of course mean fuller notes, but much 

 may be done in odd minutes. Unless you have 

 a most remarkable memory, some kind of rec- 

 ord must be kept or you will lose much of all 

 that you gain. 



Pocket note-books are of little use. Their 

 pages are narrow and few and so quickly filled 

 that, instead of one or two books, you soon have 

 a collection of a dozen or more which makes 

 reference an irritating task. It is far better to 

 have a thick exercise-book with stout card or 

 cloth-board covers. This will not cost more 

 than 15 to 25 cents, and it will wear well, con- 

 tain at least a hundred records, and the pages 

 will be far more comfortable to write upon than 

 niggling little ones measuring 2 by 4 in. You 

 will require a page or more for the record of 

 each plant, according to the amount of leisure 

 you possess. A loose-leaf note-book is even 

 better since it will allow you to keep together 



