58 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



large bunches of flowers back from your 

 rambles, do not attempt to identify, to pre- 

 serve, or to make notes of them all, or even of 

 one quarter of them. Take the rarest in the 

 bunch, two, or at most three plants in a day, 

 and study these properly. Then if time per- 

 mits of your examining others at a later hour, 

 do so, but preserve fresh examples some other 

 day, as plants that have stood long in water are 

 unsuitable for the press. Learn to study a 

 few plants thoroughly. Do not be in a hurry 

 to know all at once. 



A Nature Note-book may contain chatty 

 memoranda of scenery, picnic and rambling 

 party episodes, and any other details that help 

 to make a book intensely interesting and alive. 

 Such records vary as infinitely as their writers. 

 It rests with yourself as to the kind your own 

 shall be. Whatever they are they will be a re- 

 flection of yourself. You will be unable to 

 prevent this. 



If you are sternly matter-of-fact the book 

 will be a practical, business-like record of 

 names and places and dates, with short, crisp 

 details of floral structure no more, no less. 



