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BOOKS ON GARDEN 

 FIELD AND WOOD 



Hov^ to Know the Wild 

 Flo^vers 



By MRS. WILLIAM STARR DANA 



With 48 colored plates and new black-and-white drawings, 

 enlarged, rewritten, and entirely reset. 



A guide to the names, haunts, and haliits of our native 

 wild flowers. With 48 full-page colored plates by 

 Elsie Louise Shaw, and no full-page illustrations 

 by Marion Satterlee. Crown 8vo, $2.00 net. 



"Readers will find that even a bowing accjuaintance with 

 the flowers repays one generously for the effort expended in its 

 achievement," says the author in her introductiun. "Such an 

 acquaintance serves to transmute the tedium of a railway journey 

 into the excitement of a tour of discovery. It causes the monot- 

 ony of a drive through an ordinarily uninteresting country to be 

 forgotten in the diversion of noting the wayside flowers, and 

 counting a hundred different species where formerly less than a 

 dozen would have been detected. It invests each boggy meadow 

 and bit of rocky woodland with almost irresistible charm." 



"She has svstcmatized her facts in a compact and convenient 

 form. She is practical and terse, and is also alive to the things 

 which are not entirely matters of fact." — New York Tribune. 



?»Ii.ss C. W. Hunt, Superintendent of Children's Department, 

 Brooklyn Public Library, says: "Get this book if you only carry 

 one flower book on your vacation." 



" Particular! V noteworthy for its Ix-autiTul colored plates, 

 aljout fiftv in numlx-r. So Ijcaulifully were these made that in 

 many cases llic actual flower seems starting from the liagc, and 

 one can almost fancy the ])erfunie, too, is in e\-icknce." 



- A' -'i' YiJrk Times. 



