WORKS BV PBOFESSOW BAILEV 



ESSONS WITH PLANTS: Sugges- 

 tions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of 

 the Common Forms of Vegetation. By l. 



H. BAILEY, Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell 

 University, with delineations from nature by W. S. 

 HOLDSWORTH, of the Agricultural College of 

 Michigan. 



SECOND E0ITION-4B1 PACES— 448 ILLUSTRATIONt-1 2 MO- 

 CLOVH— (I.IO NIT 



There are two ways of looking at nature. The 

 old way, which you have found so unsatisfactory, 

 was to classify everj^thing — to consider leaves, roots, 

 and whole plants as formal herbarium specimens, 

 forgetting that each had its own story of growth 

 and development, struggle and success, to tell. 

 Nothing stifles a natural love for plants more effect- 

 ually than that old way. 



The new waj^ is to watch the life of every grow- 

 ing thing, to look upon each plant as a living 

 creatiH-e, whose life is a story as fascinating as the 

 story of any favorite hero. "Lessons with Plants" 

 is a book of stories, or rather, a book of plays, for 

 we can see each chapter acted out if we take the 

 trouble to look at the actors. 



"I have spent some time in most delightful examination of it, and the 

 longer I loolt, the better I like it. I find it not only full of interest, but 

 eminpntly suggestive, I know of no book which tjegins to do so much to 

 open the eyes of the student —whether pupil or teacher — to the wealth of 

 meaning contained in simple plant forms. Above all else, it seems to be 

 full of suggestions that help one to learn the language of plants, so they 

 may talk to him."— L>arwin L, Bardwell, Superintendent of Schools, Bing- 

 hainton. 



"It is an admirable book, and cannot fail both to awaken interest in 

 the subject, and to serve as a helpful and reliable guide to young students 

 of plant life. It will, I think, fill an important place in secondary schools, 

 and comes at an opportune time, when helps of this kind are needed and 

 eagerly sought,"— Professor V. M. Spaldino, University of Michigan. 



FIRST LESSONS WITH PLANTS 



An Abridgement of the above. 117 pages — :116 illustra- 

 tions'— 40 cents net. 



