CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
Copyright, 1896, by
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.
DANA’S PLANTS.
W. P. 2
PREFACE
A child’s reading book, it seems to me, should secure for the child three things,—practice in the art of reading, amusement, and instruction. Whether my little book is fitted to attain this threefold object, others must decide; but in laying it before the public, let me urge careful attention to a few suggestions.