54 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



whole description to be found in the Flora, but 

 the main points should be recorded. After- 

 wards you will add any abbreviated extracts 

 from other books you may have, dealing with 

 the plant under observation. 



If you should have any illustration or maga- 

 zine article describing the plant, the cutting 

 should be neatly fastened into the book ; or if 

 you are an expert photographer and have a 

 print of the plant or its locality, this will add 

 still further interest to your Nature Notes. 



A Nature Note-book should also contain 

 rough sketches of the plants or some of their 

 more important and characteristic parts. You 

 may not be an artist, but practice will soon 

 help you to do this far more quickly and easily 

 than you would suppose possible. The 

 sketches may be of the roughest description, 

 but this will not matter. If you are an adept 

 at rapid sketching you will soon draw in the 

 whole plant with enlargements at its side of 

 any special structural details you may wish to 

 remember. If less practiced in this kind of 

 work, you may content yourself with drawing 

 only parts of the plant possibly an example 



