AN EXPERT OPINION. 



Turning away from the flying and creeping things of the 

 earth and from the snap-shot methods necessary to portray their 

 life, a feeling of coolness and repose comes to us from between the 

 leaves of "Our Ferns in their Haunts." Last week, driving on 

 the Parkman road, near the head of Lake George, we watered the 

 horse at a barrel, fed from a spring on the hillside by the hol- 

 lowed-out half of a tree-trunk. We climbed the slope above it 

 and gathered quantities of ferns, differing, while the horse jogged 

 on again, as to whether this or the florist's delicate pet was the 

 real "maidenhair/' There was no untechnical book in our col- 

 lection, nor did we know of any in which we could "look it up." 

 The next mail brought this book. It opened to a pen-and-ink 

 sketch of what looked like our drinking place. Further on in the 

 book we found — was it the very clump from which our ferns had 

 been taken? It might have been, for the surroundings seemed 

 identical. Our questions were answered, as were several others, 

 and we were given a digestible morsel of science with a salad of 

 maidenhair folk-lore, all served up in the best of descriptive 

 English. The make up of the book is admirable. The colored 

 plates, wash drawings and pen-and-ink sketches are artistic and 

 at the same time accurate in detail, and the bits of quoted verse 

 and folk-lore are as attractive as the illustrations. — Literary Col- 

 lector. 



OUR FERNS IN THEIR HAUNTS 



A GUIDE TO ALL OUR NATIVE SPECIES 

 BY WILLARD N. CLUTE 

 8 vo., Cloth, 332 pages and 215 illustrations. 

 Price, $2.15 NET. Sent postpaid for $2.35 

 Address, WILLARD N. CLUTE & CO., Binghamton, N. Y. 



