86 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



named! The book has over 100 illustrations 

 and refers to more of our own native plants 

 than most general works. 



A valuable book is The Living Plant by Pro- 

 fessor William F. Ganong of Smith College 

 (Henry Holt & Co., New York, $3.50) . It has 

 the unusual advantage of having been written 

 by a thoroughly competent scientist especially 

 for persons interested in botany but with lit- 

 tle technical knowledge of it. The author uses 

 some technical terms because they furnish 

 often the only method of saying briefly exactly 

 what one means ; but such terms are carefully 

 explained. You may want to read the book 

 backward, for it begins with an account of the 

 cells of plants and their work, something very 

 wonderful but which you cannot see for your- 

 self without a compound microscope and skill 

 in using it, and only in the middle do you reach 

 a treatment of such subjects as the movements 

 of plants, their devices for reproduction and 

 other things which you can see for yourself. 

 But whichever way you read it, you will find it 

 worth reading and when you have finished, you 

 will have a very complete summary of what is 



