PREFACE 
In this little book I have attempted to bring 
into easily available form a discussion of a large 
proportion of the more widely distributed her- 
baceous wild flowers, which should so combine 
suggestions for observations in the schoolroom 
and out of doors that it would make the study of 
the wild flowers of real interest both to teacher 
and pupils. It is assumed throughout that the 
pupils shall have an opportunity for a constructive 
reproduction of their images of the flowers 
through drawings, written exercises and pressed 
specimens or photographic prints, which are to be 
bound into booklets that shall become the personal 
property of the pupils. 
While the arrangement of the various species 
is that of a grouping into families these families 
are placed in the sequence of the blossoming of 
the more important members, so that the season 
of flowering may be followed in a general way. 
It has not been deemed advisable to work up the 
specific questions and directions for study inthe 
case of every species treated, but rather to do so 
for the more abundant ones which are likely to be 
available in sufficient quantity for each pupil to 
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