PUBLISHEKS' PEEFACE 



GRAY'S SCHOOL AND FIELD BOOK OF BOTANY 



This wort consists of the " Lessons in Botany " and the 

 " Field, Forest and Gakden Botany," bound together in one 

 complete volume, forming a most popular and comprehensive 

 School Botany, adapted to beginners and advanced classes, to 

 Agricultural Colleges and Schools, as well as to all other grades 

 in which the science is taught ; it is also adapted for use as a 

 hand-book to assist in analyzing plants and flowers in field 

 study of botany, either by classes or individuals. 



The book is intended to furnish Botanical Classes and 

 beginners with an easier introduction to the Plants of this 

 country, and a much more comprehensive work, than is tne 

 Manual. 



Beginning with the Jirst principles, it progresses by easy 

 stages until the student, who is at all diligent, is enabled to 

 master the intricacies of the science. 



It is a Grammar and Dictionary of Botany, and comprises 

 the common Herbs, Shrubs, and Trees of the Southern as well 

 as the Northern and Middle States, including the commonly 

 cultivated, as well as the native species in fields, gardens, 

 pleasure-grounds, or house culture, and even the conservatory 

 plants ordinarily met with. 



This work supplies a great desideratum to the Botanist and 

 Botanical Teacher, there being no similar class-book published 

 in this country. 



