LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Full-page Illustrations 



PAGE 



William Hamilton Gibson. Frontispiece 



A Honey-Dew Picnic. 9 



In Archin' Bowers (The Barberry). 39 



The Evening Primrose. 53 



How Bluets are Fertilized. 63 



Method of Pollination in the Figwort. 81 



The Milkweed as Bluebeard. 105 



The Showy Orchid. 131 



The Rattlesnake-Plantain. 149 



The Arethusa. i53 



The Moccasin-Flower. 163 



Text Illust?-atiOfis 



Nature's Garden. i 



Cleistogamous Buds of the Violet. 16 



Autumn Sharpshooters. 17 



Tail-piece (Vase of Flowers). 18 



Head-piece (Butterflies about a Plant). 19 



A Woodland Path. 21 



Companions. 31 



Tail-piece (Drinking the Health of the Jolly Apis). 36 



Head-piece (Barberry Blossoms). 37 



Tail-piece (Bees). 42 



Head-piece (Clover). 43 



The Beggar's Tick. 45 



Stick-Seed Plants of the Autumn Woods. 47 



Tail-piece (Landscape). 48 



Head-piece (Primroses). 49 

 Moths Avhich Feed upon the Primrose Buds issuing from their 



Cocoons. 54 



