FLOWER-LAND. 



them, they will be better than any pictures you have 

 ever seen. 



You will know that I mean you to go and find the 

 flowers themselves, to admire them, and to see how 

 wonderfully and how differently they are made. 



Now, it is a fine day, and the grass is nice and dry, 

 so let us be off upon our first excursion. 



Yes, that will do very well for us to begin with. 

 You have found a daisy, or a dead nettle, or a 

 buttercup, or a dandelion, or some other common 

 flower which you know very well. What did you 

 pick it from ? Did you not notice ? 



See, here is another flower. We will stay a little, 

 arid find out what it belongs to. It is quite fast, you 

 see, upon its stem, .and the stem is held fast to the 

 ground by the root. Now, we will dig it up, and 

 have the whole plant flower, and leaves, and stem, and 

 root together. 



As we walk along I can now tell you what it is to 

 be a Botanist. It is to know about plants. 



But many plants are very different from this one 

 we have taken up, of which the pretty flower 

 attracted you. On many kinds of plants you would 

 not find these flowers. 



We will try and find some of them. Look amongst 

 the grass, or in the ditch, or on the bank-side, or on 

 the stones of an old wall, or the trunk of an old tree, 

 and see if you can find some moss. That is such a 

 plant as we are looking for; it has no true flowers. 



