LESSONS WITH PLANTS 



Suggestions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of the Common 

 Forms of Vegetation 



By L. H. BAILEY 



Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell University 



With Delineations from Nature by W. S. HOLDSWORTH, of the 

 University of Michigan 



523 pages. 446 illustrations. i2mo. Cloth. $1.10, net 



There are two ways of looking at nature. The old way, which you have 

 found so unsatisfactory, was to classify everything to consider leaves, roots, 

 and whole plants as formal herbarium specimens, forgetting that each had its 

 own story of growth and development, struggle and success, to tell. Nothing 

 stifles a natural love for plants more effectually than that old way. 



The new way is to watch the life of every growing thing, to look upon each 

 plant as a living creature, whose life is a story as fascinating as the story of any 

 favorite hero. " Lessons with Plants " is a book of stories, or rather a book 

 of plays, for we can see each chapter acted out, if we take the trouble to look 

 at the actors. It is a book, too, that enables any one to read Nature's stories 

 for himself. 



Darwin L. Bardwell, Superintendent of Schools, Binghamton. 



"I have spent some time in most delightful examination of it, and the 

 longer I look, the better I like it. I find it not only full of interest, but emi- 

 nently suggestive. I know of no book which begins to do so much to open 

 the eyes of the student whether pupil or teacher to the wealth of meaning 

 contained in simple plant forms. Above all else it seems to be full of sugges- 

 tions that help one to learn the language of plants, so they may talk to him." 



Professor V. M. Spalding, University of Michigan. 



" It is an admirable book, and cannot fail both to awaken interest in the 

 subject, and to serve as a helpful and reliable guide to young students of 

 plant life. It will, I think, fill an important place in secondary schools, and 

 comes at an opportune time when helps of this kind are needed and eagerly 

 sought." 



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