vi FAMILIAR FLOWBRS OP FIELD AND GARDEN. 



two for those who are inexperienced in botanical 

 research. In Prof. Meehan's Flowers and Ferns of 

 the United States I have found a valuable authority 

 on the habits and characters of our more Western 

 flowers, and Prof. Goodale in his Wild Flowers of 

 America has supplied me with many interesting facts 

 connected with some of our common Eastern flowers. 

 This selection of familiar wild and garden flowers in- 

 cludes those which have seemed most familiar or in- 

 teresting or even homely to one who spends a great 

 deal of time in the garden and fields surrounding a 

 hillside studio. Most of the Western and Southwest- 

 ern wild flowers (now in cultivation) grow in this gar- 

 den, and these, with others of the woods and fields 

 near by, were sketched on the spot. Still other speci- 

 mens (many of which grew in the Arnold Arboretum 

 near Boston) of various localities were likewise drawn 

 directly from Nature. 



What the character of the message is which a wild 

 flower brings to the observant lover of Nature depends 

 largely upon disposition of the individual. This one 

 is susceptible to no suggestion ; that one sees a vis- 

 ion of the beautiful beyond the conception of the 

 unimaginative; another hears the music of Nature 

 and sees the beautiful as well. Let us hope that 

 there are few Americans of whom Wordsworth 

 might say : 



