84 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



the idea of widening and deepening present 

 knowledge, and not of reiterating what has 

 been already learnt. 



It is safe to say that no one has made natural 

 history more attractive than did William 

 Hamilton Gibson. In the botanical parts of 

 his three volumes (Eye-Spy, My Studio 

 Neighbors and Sharp Eyes, Harper & Bros., 

 New York, $2.50 each) are to be found many 

 interesting observations on plants and their 

 ways, charmingly told and still more charm- 

 ingly illustrated. They tell of the fertiliza- 

 tion of different flowers and the insects which 

 accomplish it, the behavior of tendrils, seed- 

 lings, pollen-grains, seed dispersal, etc. And, 

 perhaps best of all, they will show you what to 

 look for in your own observations of plants 

 which they do not describe. Another alto- 

 gether excellent little book is Clarence Moores 

 Weed's Ten New England Blossoms and their 

 Insect Visitors (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Bos- 

 ton, $1.25). The title modestly mentions only 

 ten flowers but almost three times as many, 

 nearly all different from those in Gibson's 



