a number from drawings. The photographs, all of shrubs in
flower or fruit, are very beautiful, and so clear as to
make identification perfectly simple."--_Dial._
"An interesting feature of this book is the sparing but
judicious incorporation of quotations from those authors
among us who have best interpreted nature."--_Churchman._
Our Garden Flowers
By HARRIET L. KEELER
Author of "Our Native Trees" and "Our Northern Shrubs."
With 96 full-page illustrations from photographs and 186
illustrations from drawings. Crown 8vo, $2.00 _net_;
postage extra.
A popular study of the life histories of familiar flowers, their
structural affiliations, their native lands, that has those qualities
of clearness, thoroughness, and charm of style that have made her
other books famous.
It is beautifully illustrated.
"This book," says its author in her preface, "is the
outcome of a life-long search for a volume with which one
might make a little journey into the garden, and become
acquainted with the dwellers therein; their native land,
their life history, their structural affiliations.
"Among the many species of a genus it has often been
necessary to select but one for description. As a rule the
choice has been either the typical form, or the one longest
in cultivation, or the greatest favorite.
"While it has been the aim to make the book a fairly
complete study of all the annual and perennial flowering
herbs commonly found in a hardy garden, it is by no means
intended to be a catalogue."
Full of practical, tested, systematically arranged, and well indexed
information.
Transcriber's Notes
Moved some illustrations to paragraph breaks.
Page ix: Corrected listing Preface to page v instead of vii.
Page xi: Corrected order of plate listings XX. and XXI.
Page 48: Corrected GOLDIE'S FERN reference page to 174 instead of 175.
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