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when we have grasped the fact that in the world of flowers 
or elsewhere, ‘‘there is no beauty apart from use.” 
Study 38. Summer Wild Flowers 
The program of work for this study should include a trip 
to the field for collecting wild flowers and studying their 
characters and habits. All the showier sorts of wild flowers 
of one small locality should be observed, gathered and 
compared. They will be found in uncultivated places by 
the roadside and streamside and in the woods. They will 
show great differences in color and form and attractions to 
insect visitors. Many of their characters will appear curious 
and inexplicable if studied only indoors and apart from their 
environment; but in the field, when the day is bright and 
calm and insects are abundant, one may see exactly what 
the most puzzling of floral structures are good for, by seeing 
their mechanism in action. 
The record of this study may consist of an annotated list 
of the flowers studied, illustrated with a few simple diagrams 
of flowers or clusters, etc., where possible. 
The notes should cover: kind of plant, manner and place 
of growth, sort of flower-clusters, of flower, its color, odor, and 
general attractiveness to visitors and means of attracting 
them. 
