INTRODUCTION 
addition to the literature of Canada, and that it may become 
a household book, as Gilbert White’s Natural History of 
Selborne is to this day among English readers. And now at 
the age of eighty-three years, fifty-two of which have been 
spent in the fair province of Ontario, in her far forest home 
on the banks of the rapid Otonabee, the writer lays down her 
pen, with earnest prayers for the prosperity of this her 
much beloved adopted country, that with the favor and 
blessing of our God it may become the glory of all lands. 
LAKEFIELD, ONT, 1884. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 
Mrs. Chamberlin gratefully acknowledges the advice and 
encouragement given to her in the preparation of this work 
by the Dominion Botanist, Professor John Macoun, F.C.S., 
F.R.S.C., and by the Assistant Botanist, James M. Macoun, 
C.M.G.; and also gladly embraces the opportunity afforded 
in this preface of extending her sincere thanks to Dr. James 
Fletcher, the well-known entomologist and botanist, who in 
the midst of the pressing duties of his position was kind 
enough to undertake the correction of the proofs of this 
present edition of PLANT LIFE IN CANADA. 
Mrs. Chamberlin also makes grateful acknowledgment of 
the valuable assistance given her by her daughter, Mrs. 
Geraldine Moodie, in photographing the, paintings from 
which the plates used in the present edition were taken. 
LAKEFIELD, ONT., August Ist, 1906. 
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