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LESSONS WITH PLANTS: Suggestions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of the
Common Forms of Vegetation. By L. H. BAILEY, Professor of Horticulture in
the Cornell University, with delineations from nature by W. S. HOLDSWORTH,
of the Agricultural College of Michigan.

*SECOND EDITION--491 PAGES--446 ILLUSTRATIONS--12 MO--CLOTH--$1.10 NET*

There are two ways of looking at nature. The _old way_, which you have
found so unsatisfactory, was to classify everything--to consider leaves,
roots, and whole plants as formal herbarium specimens, forgetting that
each had its own story of growth and development, struggle and success, to
tell. Nothing stifles a natural love for plants more effectually than the
old way.

The new way is to watch the l