Wild Flowers: Where to Find and How to Know Them. Spencer Thomson. 22nd Edition.

Haunts of the Wild Flowers. By Anne Pratt. 3rd Edition.

Wood’s (Rev. J. G.) Fresh and Salt-Water Aquarium. 2nd Edition.

Wood’s (Rev. J. G.) Common British Moths. 100 Illustrations by E. Smith, T. W. Wood, and W. S. Coleman. 8th Edition.

Wood’s (Rev. J. G.) Common British Beetles. 100 Illustrations by E. Smith and T. W. Wood. 2nd Edition.

Roses and their Culture. By W. D. Prior. 2nd Edition.


PREFACE.

In the following pages will be found short and simple descriptions of some of the numerous objects that are to be found in our fields, woods, and waters.

As this little work is not intended for scientific readers, but simply as a guide to those who are desirous of learning something of natural objects, scientific language has been studiously avoided, and scientific names have been only given in cases where no popular name can be found. In so small a compass but little can be done; and therefore I have been content to take certain typical objects, which will serve as guides, and to omit mention of those which can be placed under the same head.