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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



wild flowers that grow in our own land : 

 what Grindon calls " the onward furrow 

 of a generous civilization " is often fatal ' 

 to these dwellers in sheltered glade or 

 mossy dell, they cannot bear the smoky 

 breath of towns : the poisoned streams 

 that flow from their midst. They must 

 be sought on the upland moor, the breezy 

 heath, or in the tangled wood. And what 

 pen can describe the delight of a summer's 

 ramble in such places, the intense pleasure 

 enhanced by the discovery of some new 

 treasure, you have never found before. 



Large numbers of would-be students 

 are deterred at the outset by the apparent 

 difficulties that beset the beginner. Man- 

 uals are so full of technical terms, words 

 whose meaning they do not know, and 

 there seems to be so much to learn, that 

 they hesitate to commence. We would as- 

 sure them that the difficulties are more 

 imaginary than real, that the technicalities 

 are an advantage rather than a hindrance, 

 and the substitution of English names for 

 the received Latin ones, would throwback 

 the science into the bewilderment from 

 which it has emerged. It will be our effort-, 

 not only in Botany, but in all other branches 

 of Natural History, to explain away any 

 of these impediments, and help the begin- 

 ner in his first steps. Will our readers 

 communicate freely with us on these 

 matters. Many things that seem plain 

 and easy to us. may be puzzling to them. 

 We know that when we were commencing 

 our Natural History studies, we were often 

 met with some obstacle or other that 

 seemed insurmountable at the time, but 

 when it was overcome, we could not tell 



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where it had been. A slight error, a 

 trivial misunderstanding may set you on 

 the wrong track, yet when you get right 

 you will be unable to say where yon went 

 astray. With the knowledge gained after, 

 we do not see our early stumbling blocks, 

 which only existed in imagination. Hence 

 it may be that without our readers com- 

 munications we may miss the very points 

 that puzzle them. If they tell us their 

 difficulties they will soon be explained. 



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