CONTENTS

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[Introduction][11]
[Origin of Plants][17]
[Life of a Plant][27]
[Migrations of Plants][39]
[Comrades of the Plant World][57]
[Allies of the Plant World][69]
[Marriage Customs of Plants][83]
[Art in the Plant World][95]
[Music in the Plant World][110]
[Science in the Plant World][122]
[Religion in the Plant World][141]
[Plant Mythology][154]
[Mysticism in the Plant World][167]
[Plant Intelligence][186]
[The Higher Life of Plants][204]
[Plants & Men][215]

To

EDWIN MARKHAM

and

ANNA CATHERINE MARKHAM

who live their poetry.

“That nothing walks with aimless feet;
That not one life shall be destroyed;
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete;
“That not one worm is cloven in vain;
That not a moth with vain desire
Is shrivel’d in a fruitless fire,
Or but subserves another’s gain.”

—Tennyson.

INTRODUCTION