FLOWER-LAND. 



CHAPTER I. 



FLOWERING PLANTS. 



I HEAR that you 

 would like to be a 

 Botanist, and I am 

 going to write you a 

 little book which I 

 hope will help you. 

 You -will find a good 

 many pictures in it, 

 and these will make 

 'it easier for you to 

 understand what I tell 

 you. But you must 

 not be satisfied with 

 merely looking at the 

 Fig. i. Cowslip (Primula veris}. pictures in the book. 

 'If you wish to become a good Botanist you must go and 

 find many other pictures for yourself. This will be 

 much the best plan, for first you will have all the fun 

 of looking for them, and then when you have found 



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