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of flowers, their structural development and 

 their relation to the insect world; books on 

 poisonous and carnivorous plants, and many 

 treatises on the geological antiquity, geograph- 

 ical range, and general life-history of 

 plants. Every year fresh wonders are dis- 

 covered, more questions are answered, and yet 

 more are being asked. But in spite of the 

 vastness of the subject and the large amount 

 of literature dealing with it, the student need 

 not be discouraged. His chief difficulty will 

 be to find a single book, or two or three, which 

 will give him just the information he wants. 



The best plan is to begin very simply. If 

 you .do not intend to preserve your " finds" 

 you need only buy two books, a note-book, 

 penknife, and magnifying-glass, for most 

 people already possess the remaining requisites 

 (a basket, pair of scissors, trowel, old news- 

 papers, needles and pencil) mentioned in a 

 former chapter on "The Botanical Outfit." 

 One of the two books should be a well illus- 

 trated Flora (see p. 29), and the other some 

 simple work on plant study. 



Neltje Blanchan's Nature's Garden 



