68 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



value to yourself and your friends. If you 

 preserve your plants you have something to 

 show for your study, something tangible and 

 delightful, something which will be of lasting 

 value to yourself and at once arouse interest 

 in other people. No photograph or colored 

 plate, however lovely, can ever equal the in- 

 terest and value of a real plant naturally 

 and carefully preserved. But you must re- 

 member that plant preservation is an Art. 

 For this reason I am giving full details of the 

 process in the two chapters on Pressing and 

 Mounting Plants. If you carry out the in- 

 structions you will find that comparatively few 

 of your flowers will fade or seriously change 

 color. 



To return to the general study of plant life 

 there are a few technical terms that confront 

 the student in the simplest books, so that a 

 little time should be given to the study of such 

 words as sepals, petals, stamens, pistil and 

 pollen. You will find them fully explained in 

 the illustrated Glossary (Chapter IX of the 

 present work) . 



If you are ignorant of the names given to 



