Part 46

"Readers will find that even a bowing acquaintance with the flowers repays one generously for the effort expended in its achievement," says the author in her introduction. "Such an acquaintance serves to transmute the tedium of a railway journey into the excitement of a tour of discovery. It causes the monotony of a drive through an ordinarily uninteresting country to be forgotten in the diversion of noting the wayside flowers, and counting a hundred different species where formerly less than a dozen would have been detected. It invests each boggy meadow and bit of rocky woodland with almost irresistible charm."

"She has systematized her facts in a compact and convenient form. She is practical and terse, and is also alive to the things which are not entirely matters of fact."--New York Tribune.

Miss C. W. Hunt, Superintendent of Children's Department, Brooklyn Public Library, says: "Get this book if you only carry one flower book on your vacation."

"Particularly noteworthy for its beautiful colored plates, about fifty in number. So beautifully were these made that in many cases the actual flower seems starting from the page, and one can almost fancy the perfume, too, is in evidence."

--New York Times.

By Mrs. WILLIAM STARR DANA (FRANCES THEODORA PARSONS)

ACCORDING TO SEASON

Talks about the flowers in the order of their appearance in the woods and fields. With 32 full-page illustrations in colors from drawings by Elsie Louise Shaw. $1.75 net.

"It is a privilege to own such a book, for its artistic charm and its contents well deserve their setting."--The Dial.

"The charm of this book is as pervading and enduring as is the charm of nature."--New York Times.

"Delightful talks upon the beauty of the changing year and the parts contributed to such pleasures by forest, grove, and stream."--The Interior.

By LOUISE SHELTON

THE SEASONS IN A FLOWER GARDEN

A hand-book of information and instruction for the amateur. Illustrated. $1.00 net.

"Pleasant and useful, and may be confidently recommended to amateur gardeners."--New York Times.

"A manual admirably adapted in every way to the needs of people who desire to utilize a small garden space to the best possible advantage."--Providence Journal.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 597-599 Fifth Avenue, New York

How to Know the Ferns

By FRANCES THEODORA PARSONS

Author of "According to Season" and "How to Know the Wild Flowers." With 144 illustrations from photographs. Crown 8vo, $1.50 net.

Written in the same fresh entertaining way, and with the same care and authority, that made invaluable to nature lovers her work on "How to Know the Wild Flowers."

"Since the publication, six years ago, of 'How to Know the Wild Flowers,'" says the writer, "I have received such convincing testimony of the eagerness of nature lovers of all ages and conditions to familiarize themselves with the inhabitants of our woods and fields, and so many assurances of the joy which such a familiarity affords, that I have prepared this companion volume on 'How to Know the Ferns.'"

"The charm of this book is pervading and enduring as is the charm of nature."--New York Times.

"This is a notably thorough little volume. The text is not voluminous, and even with its many full-page illustrations the book is small; but brevity, as we are glad to see so many writers on nature learning, is the first of virtues in this field.... The author of 'How to Know the Ferns' has mastered her subject, and she treats of it with authority."--New York Tribune.

Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them

By HARRIET L. KEELER

With 178 full-page plates from photographs, and 162 text-drawings. Crown 8vo, $2.00 net.

The trees described in this volume are those indigenous to the region extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to the northern boundaries of the Southern States; together with a few well-known and naturalized foreign trees such as the Horse-Chestnut, Lombardy Poplar, Ailantus, and Sycamore Maple.