Abstract
IT would be difficult to find a more direct contrast to the formal method of nature teaching ithan the imaginative yet fairly accurate presentation of episodes in plant-life charmingly depicted in the pages of “The Flower Book.” The elements and flowers are endowed with voices to express the tale of their difficulties, their ambitions, and their victories. The distress of the stock seedlings when transplanted, the aspirations of the snowdrops and the buttercups, the ospread of the pinks in the border, should appeal to the imagination of any bright child, and as natural reasons for the various incidents are cleverly worked into the arguments it may be expected that grains of knowledge will be instilled. One item calls for immediate refutation, that is, the suggested origin of the water plantain from the common plantain. There is a general theme linking together the five sections noted in the title. The illustrations are not an entire success, as some suffer from a want of proportion, but grace and truth are combined in the pictures of the rose, the bluebell, and the iris.
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