How to know the wild flowers :
a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common wild flowers /
by Mrs. William Starr Dana ; illustrated by Marion Satterlee.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1895.
- Edition
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Rev. and enl. ed.
- Summary
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Considered the first field guide to American wild flowers when first published in 1893, this revised and enlarged edition contains 156 plates and provides botanical details and lore for nearly five hundred flowering plants personally observed by the author in parts of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., along with a few found outside this range and east of Chicago. The listings are grouped by color of flower.
- Note
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Binding, signed MA, designed by Margaret Armstrong,
156 plates included in pagination of text.
Includes indexes.
- Physical Description
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xvii, 373 p. :
ill. ;
21 cm.
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