INTRODUCTION 



addition to the literature of Canada, and that it may become 

 a household book, as Gilbert White's Natural History of 

 Selborne is to this day among English readers. And now at 

 the age of eighty-three years, fifty-two of which have been 

 spent in the fair province of Ontario, in her far forest home 

 on the banks of the rapid Otonabee, the writer lays down her 

 pen, with earnest prayers for the prosperity of this her 

 much beloved adopted country, that with the favor and 

 blessing of our God it may become the glory of all lands. 



LAKEFIELD, ONT, 1884. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



Mrs. Chamberlin gratefully acknowledges the advice and 

 encouragement given to her in the preparation of this work 

 by the Dominion Botanist, Professor John Macoun, F.C.S., 

 F.R.S.C., and by the Assistant Botanist, James M. Macoun, 

 C.M.G.; and also gladly embraces the opportunity afforded 

 in this preface of extending her sincere thanks to Dr. James 

 Fletcher, the well-known entomologist and botanist, who in 

 the midst of the pressing duties of his position was kind 

 enough to undertake the correction of the proofs of this 

 present edition of PLANT LIFE IN CANADA. 



Mrs. Chamberlin also makes grateful acknowledgment of 

 the valuable assistance given her by her daughter, Mrs. 

 Geraldine Moodie, in photographing the paintings from 

 \vhich the plates used in the present edition were taken. 



LAKEFIELD, ONT V August 1st, 1906. 



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