Wayside and Woodland Blossoms: Illustrated Pocket Guide to British Wild-Flowers

The purpose of this colorfully illustrated and informative (clearly descriptive) book is to assist a very large and increasing class of persons who possess a strong love of flowers, but to whom the ordinary "Floras" indispensable as they are to the scientific botanist are as books written in an unknown tongue. With the enormous increase of populations, and the greater facilities for travel, there has grown up a truer appreciation of the country and of all that is beautiful in nature; and it...