Field Book of American Wild Flowers
Author | : Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1912 |
ISBN-10 | : HARVARD:32044106348956 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Excerpt from Field Book of American Wild Flowers: Being a Short Description of Their Character and Habits, a Concise Definition of Their Colors, and Incidental References to the Insects Which Assist in Their Fertilization quite recently, in a conversation about art with Mr. Fosdick, the artist, he remarked to me that those who followed our profession were legitimately and continually seeking after expression regardless of limitation. I have since thought this was a very happy truth. Perhaps, therefore, it is sufficient to account for the exist. Hence of a volume on our American ora, fully one half of which is pictures.