INTBODUCTOBY ADDBESS. Xlll. 



To dry a specimen of each flower you study, will 

 prove an amusement of increasing interest ; and the 

 arrangement of such specimens on paper, with their 

 names, orders, and the peculiar character of the 

 plants written helow, will aflford pleasant occupation 

 for winter months ; keeping summer and its flowers, 

 still in view. And what pleasant memorials they will 

 be, years hence, of many a delightful ramble, and of 

 beautiful scenery, where those flowers were blooming 

 fresh around you. 



I will give directions for drying Plants, with the 

 best method for preserving their colors, at the end 

 of this volume. If you can discover any way of fixing 

 their colors when dried, more effectually, I hope you 

 will communicate the result of your experiments : 

 for there, is the difficulty yet to be surmounted. If 

 you have any taste for drawing, what pleasure you 

 will find in drawing flowers from nature ; dissecting 

 them, and giving each part its botanical name : what 

 is thus engraven on the memory can scarcely ever be 

 forgotten. 



