Fifty Flower Friends
With Familiar Faces
By EDITH DUNHAM
A FIELD BOOK FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
With twelve full-page colored plates, decorations and fifty text illustrations from nature by W. I. BEECROFT $1.35 _net_
CHILDREN cannot too soon begin to know the wild flowers, and here theyare told in a charming way where and when to look for each of fiftywidely distributed common flowering plants; also how they get theirnames, and how to know them from the remarkably accurate drawings of Mr.Beecroft, a skilled botanist and superior artist. Each of the fiftyflowers has a page of accurate botanical description in addition to itsstory. Thus the book is suited for varying ages.
"The greatest praise can be bestowed upon and every mother and father should have one and by it better educate their children in nature, which will prove not only an enjoyable study, but an instructive one."--_Providence News._
"Good brief descriptions, good clear pictures, portraits almost, of each flower friend, a beautiful cover, convenient arrangement, and fine large print, make a perfect book to own, or to give to any one, especially a child."--_Universalist Leader._
"If the children do not learn something new about flowers this summer it may be because their unkind parents have not bought them Miss Edith Dunham's Fifty Flower Friends."--_New York Times._
"The boy or girl into whose hands this book is placed can hardly fail to acquire a real and lasting interest in our every-day wild flowers."--_The Dial._
"It has no rival in books of its kind, either in text or illustration."--_Boston Budget._
_For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers_
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON
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