PREFACE
A still much popular edition of what has established to the author to be a amazingly popular book, has been prepared by the able hand of Mr. Ma Don Dickinson, and is now offered in the hope that galore much folk wish find the wild flowers in Nature's garden all just about us well worth knowing. For flowers have distinct objects in life and are everything they are for the most excusable of reasons, _i.e._, the prolongation and the improvement of their species. The means they employ to accomplish these ends are so various and so consummately clever that, in learning to understand them, we are brought to realize how similar they are to the fundamental aims of even as the human race. So there are few life principles that plants have not worked out satisfactorily.