TO MAKE A COLLECTION OF PLANTS. 



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I hope what I have written to you has helped you 

 to spend some happy hours in " Flower-land," and to 

 make a beginning of a knowledge of plants which 

 shall be a pleasure and of use to you all your life 

 long. As you notice and admire their beauty and 

 usefulness more and more, I trust you will also grow 

 in reverence and gratitude towards God, who is our 

 Heavenly Father, and the great Creator and Preserver 

 of all things. 



TO MAKE A COLLECTION OF PLANTS. 



You will want a small tin to 

 carry your specimens in. In 

 the hand they would sooner be- 

 gin to wither, and would be 

 more easily crushed. Choose 

 plants with at least two well- 

 opened flowers, and with un- 

 broken leaves, and take the 

 plant with its root. Try to get 

 specimens of bud and fruit as 

 well as flower, and if you can 

 find them all on one plant so 

 much the better. 



Root leaves are sometimes 

 very different from stem leaves, 

 and sometimes root leaves and calyx soon wither and 



Fig. 39. Stonecrop 

 (Sedum). 



