HOW TO STUDY PLANT LIFE 67 



(Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, $3.00) 

 will probably furnish more than any other 

 single book of what you will want to know 

 about our common flowers their fertilization 

 and the ways in which insects assist in it, and 

 the devices by means of which they hold their 

 own in the struggle for existence. The book 

 contains illustrations, from photographs, of 

 about 125 species, nearly half of them colored, 

 and brief descriptions of many more; and it 

 may be used, to some extent, as a flora, since 

 the plants are arranged in it according to color 

 and time of flowering. 



If you intend to preserve specimens of the 

 plants you find you will need a botanical press 

 and a few other things which are fully dis- 

 cussed and explained in Chapter II. I 

 strongly advise all students to form such a 

 collection of plants. It makes a lovely me- 

 mento of the years, especially of holiday times, 

 and though the work of preservation requires 

 care and an average amount of patience, it 

 is quite simple and intensely interesting. 

 Perhaps the strongest argument in favor of 

 the herbarium is its educational and artistic 



