WAYSIDE WEEDS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



rLOWEES. 



"On moimtain and on hill side, in valley and. in glen, 

 A thousand lOTely things spring up to cheer the hearts of 

 men." 

 " And if we read aright the lines traced on their petals gay, 



We never more shall cast a flovrer with carelessness away." 

 "•Oh ! love them as companions, thoii wilt not lonely bej 

 They'll whisper with their fragrant lips the sweetest thoughts 



to thee ; 

 They'll steal thy senses from the earth, thy thoughts from 



themes of pain, 

 And thou wilt feel with grateful heart they bloom not here in 

 Tain." EoWLAUD Beown. 



The science of plants, Botany, has this great ad- 

 vantage over every other department of natural 

 history, that its objects are not only most readily 

 accessible, but that they have been familiar to most 

 of us from childhood. The first steps of the en- 

 tomologist, the geologist, or the mineralogist, are 

 made, as it were, into a new world, wherein all is 



