Melba's plant lesons; a nature reader for children of the third and fourth grade

Preface

To Mothers and Teachers:

This volume is intended for a supplementary reader and to be used in connection with specimens as far as possible.

A writer on Art, in speaking of originality, said that "It consists in the power of combining and transfusing, digesting and assimilating the material that comes into our possession from any source whatever."

Such is the only originality claimed in this volume. To the boys and girls is this book inscribed, hoping the information may aweken a real desire for a thorough knowledge of plant life, and may it be as interesting to those who read and study it, as its preparation has been to your friend

THE AUTHOR.

Contents

Page Introduction

The Bean 15

Talk on Growth 25