§fe gmtitj} Naturalist : 



A Penny Weekly Magazine of Natural History. 



No. 4. 



NOVEMBER- 22nd, 1879. 



Vol. 1. 



BOTANY. 



r* MONO the man)* interesting 

 ^ftj branches into which the study 

 )f Natural History divides itself, few are 



in the season a beautiful cluster of Elder 

 berries. Signs like these are enough to 

 show how a love of flowers, of vegetation 

 of almost any sort, is implanted in our 

 nature, and the most casual observer can- 

 not but take deligbt in the freshness of 



be gained, will expand the mind, and give 

 a grasp of thought that can only be ac- 



nore fascinating to its votaries than spring verdure, or the beauty of summer 

 Sotany. Plants and trees, flowers and j flowers. To those who will dive deeper 

 erns, seem to have an attraction for every j into the subject, fresh pleasures will open 

 ne. In the heart of crowded towns, the j up on every hand, beauties unnoticed 

 - )oorest will contrive to have a window before will be found in the humblest 

 lant or two, that with careful attention j wild flower, while the knowledge of their 

 •nil drag on a sickly existence in the im- j uses, their habits, their needs, that will 

 ure atmosphere ; while in the outskirts 

 re will see a square yard of garden with 



s few hardy flowering plants. And quired by the student of nature. We 

 hat greater pleasure can be offered to the j wish to direct some of our readers to the 

 lildren of our cities, than to take them j study of Botany, and as opportunity offers, 

 nee a year or so, into the country, where j various articles will be given, how to pre 

 J hey may see trees and wild flowers grow- pare and mount specimens for the Herba- 

 ;ig, where they may play unmolested on j rium, with sundry other details necessary 

 he fresh green grass, gathering wonderful ! for the beginner, while we will be glad at 

 ouquets of buttercups and daisies, cow- ' all times to name specimens or answer any 

 ips or any other wild flower. See, too, question that may be put upon the subject, 

 n summer Sundays, or Saturday after- We are sure, if we induce some of our 

 oons, troops of lads trudging off into readers, to turn their attention to this 



ountry lanes, to breathe the fresh and 

 air, and see them coming home after 

 iles of dusty tramping, bearing a branch 

 Z ? " May," a bunch of Primroses, or later 



interesting page, in the great Book of 

 Nature, we shall have given them a never 

 ending source of pleasure. The dwellers 

 in towns know little of the beauty of the 



