60 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



seen but the lovely little nooks and corners 

 where wind-flowers nestle and violets and ferns 

 and other shy things hide. Or there may be 

 pictures of wayside resting-places where you 

 halted to examine your "finds," and perhaps 

 here and there a lively picnic group. Without 

 trespassing on ground that rightly belongs to 

 the Diary, your records will be intensely hu- 

 man. There will be references to the places 

 visited, the scenery, the weather, the route 

 taken, the rambling party, and the friendships 

 formed among the flowers. 



You will find that the books you read are 

 scattered over with references to flowers, to 

 outdoor life and color effects references 

 which you had passed over as mere fanciful 

 descriptions, until your eyes were opened to 

 the glory of their reality. Some of these word- 

 pictures will so exactly describe the haunts 

 you love that you will copy them into your 

 Note-book, with many a poem in verse as well. 



As you wander in the fields, by the stream- 

 banks, or upon the wide stretches of moor- 

 land, poetry will more and more weave itself 

 into your thoughts, and you will go back to 



