"Readers will find that even a bowing acquaintance with the flowers repays one generously for the effort expended in its achievement," says the author in her introduction. "Such an acquaintance serves to transmute the tedium of a railway journey into the excitement of a tour of discovery. It causes the monotony of a drive through an ordinarily uninteresting country to be forgotten in the diversion of noting the wayside flowers, and counting a hundred different species where formerly less than a dozen would have been detected. It invests each boggy meadow and bit of rocky woodland with almost irresistible charm."

"She has systematized her facts in a compact and convenient form. She is practical and terse, and is also alive to the things which are not entirely matters of fact."—New York Tribune.

Miss C. W. Hunt, Superintendent of Children's Department, Brooklyn Public Library, says: "Get this book if you only carry one flower book on your vacation."

"Particularly noteworthy for its beautiful colored plates, about fifty in number. So beautifully were these made that in many cases the actual flower seems starting from the page, and one can almost fancy the perfume, too, is in evidence."

—New York Times.

"It is a privilege to own such a book, for its artistic charm and its contents well deserve their setting."—The Dial.

"The charm of this book is as pervading and enduring as is the charm of nature."—New York Times.

"Delightful talks upon the beauty of the changing year and the parts contributed to such pleasures by forest, grove, and stream."—The Interior.

"Pleasant and useful, and may be confidently recommended to amateur gardeners."—New York Times.

"A manual admirably adapted in every way to the needs of people who desire to utilize a small garden space to the best possible advantage."—Providence Journal.

"Since the publication, six years ago, of 'How to Know the Wild Flowers,'" says the writer, "I have received such convincing testimony of the eagerness of nature lovers of all ages and conditions to familiarize themselves with the inhabitants of our woods and fields, and so many assurances of the joy which such a familiarity affords, that I have prepared this companion volume on 'How to Know the Ferns.'"

"The charm of this book is pervading and enduring as is the charm of nature."—New York Times.

"This is a notably thorough little volume. The text is not voluminous, and even with its many full-page illustrations the book is small; but brevity, as we are glad to see so many writers on nature learning, is the first of virtues in this field.... The author of 'How to Know the Ferns' has mastered her subject, and she treats of it with authority."—New York Tribune.

"Miss Keeler has made a very commendable addition to the semi-popular treatises on American plants, in a well-written, well-illustrated, and well-printed account of native and naturalized trees. Bits of the best from the poets and prose writers relieve the descriptions, and the folk-lore of a number of trees is well if briefly told."—American Naturalist.

"To such of the general public as habitually frequent the woods which they love, the book will be most welcome, for it is carefully classified, adequately illustrated, and most readably written."—Boston Budget.

"It condenses into convenient shape a fund of information spread over many volumes of older works, and blends the practical and poetical in a way to delight all readers."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

"Simple, clear descriptions that a child can understand, are given of shrubs that find their home in the region extending from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River, and from Canada to the boundaries of our Southern States."—Outlook.

"There are over two hundred plates from photographs, and a number from drawings. The photographs, all of shrubs in flower or fruit, are very beautiful, and so clear as to make identification perfectly simple."—Dial.

"An interesting feature of this book is the sparing but judicious incorporation of quotations from those authors among us who have best interpreted nature."—Churchman.

"This book," says its author in her preface, "is the outcome of a life-long search for a volume with which one might make a little journey into the garden, and become acquainted with the dwellers therein; their native land, their life history, their structural affiliations.

"Among the many species of a genus it has often been necessary to select but one for description. As a rule the choice has been either the typical form, or the one longest in cultivation, or the greatest favorite.

"While it has been the aim to make the book a fairly complete study of all the annual and perennial flowering herbs commonly found in a hardy garden, it is by no means intended to be a catalogue."