How to Know the Wild Flowers

The book that taught America botany by color: find your flower under White, Yellow, Pink or Blue, and read its name, its haunts and its folklore — the first field guide organized the way people actually look.

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Introduction

"Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods and you will find it a source of perennial delight."--JOHN BURROUGHS

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