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This is essentially a book to be used, its beauty is incidental. 

 Armed with this and the Illustrated Manual of Pacific Coast Trees 

 by McMinn and Maino the botanist in the state or the interested 

 visitor is fully prepared to learn the names, characters and distri- 

 bution of all the woody plants of the state. 



Wild Flowers for Nature Lovers* 



G. T. Hastings 



In the introduction the author tells of discovering in the sand 

 dunes of Michigan an area of varied habitats where quantities of 

 wild flowers blossom all summer. Here he has built a bungalow 

 where he lives for seven months of the year. Here he has studied 

 the flowers, their structure, adaptations for pollination and seed 

 dispersal and methods of propagation. Much of what he has learned 

 has gone into this book. While he describes the common and more 

 attractive wild flowers found in the northern and eastern states, 

 his love for the Michigan dunes shows in the starring of the names 

 of all plants found there. As one looks through the volume and 

 notes the great number of stars he does not wonder at Mr. Quick's 

 enthusiastically naming the region an Eldorado of wild flowers. 



The arrangement of the book is unusual. Beginning with the 

 first week of April and continuing through to the fourth week of 

 October the reader is taken into the woods or fields and the flowers 

 to be found in blossom are described. At the end of each week's list 

 several pages of dainty line drawings illustrate the plants de- 

 scribed. In addition, eight colored plates add beauty to the book. 

 Meant for those just beginning the study of plants, grasses, sedges 

 and many of the small flowers that do not attract attention are 

 omitted. For each plant given there is a brief non-technical descrip- 

 tion, the range and habitat, and notes on special features, pollina- 

 tion and methods of propagation. At the end of the book there is a 

 short chapter on naturalizing wild flowers and a key based on 

 color, the plants arranged in the order in which they come into 

 bloom under each color. 



* Wild Flowers of the Northern States and Canada, Arthur Craig Quick. 

 518 pages, 8 colored plates, 234 line drawings. M. A. Donohue and Co. 1939. 

 $4.00. 



