HER FIRST LESSON IN BOTANY
FLOWER GUIDE
REVISED AND WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS
WILD FLOWERS EAST OF THE ROCKIES
BY
CHESTER A. REED
Author of “North American Birds’ Eggs,” “Bird Guide,” Etc.
With 320 Flowers in Color, Painted by the Author
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1927
[Preface] [Introductory] [FLOWER GUIDE] [Color Key] [Index]
Copyrighted, 1907
CHAS. K. REED
Worcester, Mass.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
PREFACE
Whose heart is not gladdened at the sight of the first Mayflower or Arbutus in the spring?Who can pass a body of water, its surface glistening with the beauty of the Water Lily, withoutappreciation? In the fall who can traverse a field blind to the brilliancy of the seas ofPurple Asters and gleams of theGoldenrod? Yet it is only within a very few years that there has beenany real, concerted interest shown by the masses in Nature Study. To be sure, botany has longbeen taught in some of the higher schools, but it was of advantage only to comparatively few.Now the call for knowledge, or at least the name, of what is seen in their daily rambles is voicedby tens of thousands.
Since the publication, early in 1906, of the first edition of Bird Guide, the author has been besiegedby requests from all parts of the country, and from people in every walk and station of life,to continue the idea and bring out similar volumes on flowers, butterflies, fish, animals, etc. Thepresent volume has been carefully prepared with two objects always in view—to serve the greatestnumber of persons in the best possible way—and still have a volume that can be carried in thepocket with little or no discomfort. The great majority of the colored paintings have been madedirectly from living plants, and the balance, with few exceptions, from herbarium specimens.They represent normal specimens and have been so chosen as to include those of the conspicuousflowering plants found from the Atlantic seaboard west to the States of the Mississippi Valley.Using my 25 years, devoted l