THE 'SHOWN TO THE CHILDREN' SERIES
Edited by Louey Chisholm
FLOWERS
THE
'SHOWN TO THE
CHILDREN' SERIES
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1. BEASTS
With 48 Coloured Plates
by Percy J. Billinghurst.
Letterpress by Lena Dalkeith.
2. FLOWERS
With 48 Coloured Plates,
showing 150 flowers, by
Janet Harvey Kelman.
Letterpress by C. E. Smith.
3. BIRDS
With 48 Coloured Plates
by M. K. C. Scott. Letterpress
by J. A. Henderson.
FLOWERS
SHOWN TO THE CHILDREN
by
JANET HARVEY KELMAN
DESCRIBED BY
C. E. SMITH
FORTY-EIGHT COLOURED PICTURES
LONDON & EDINBURGH
T. C. & E. C. JACK
TO
ALISON MARY OGILVIE
AND
DOROTHY CLARK
[Pg v]
Dear Children,—If you were old enough to go tothe bookseller and ask for a book that would tellyou about the flowers you see growing in thewoods and fields in spring and summer-time, youwould find there were already a great many bookswhich had been written with that purpose.
If you examined a few of these books, you woulddiscover that in many the pictures of the flowerswere not coloured, and that in these books theflowers were very difficult to recognise. And Ithink you would at once tell the bookseller youwished a flower-book with coloured pictures,where the flowers looked like real flowers.
Then you would examine more books, some ofwhich have beautiful coloured pictures showingevery flower that grows in our country. Thesebooks are very large and cost a great deal ofmoney. You would see, too, quite small bookswhich said they could tell about the commonflowers we find in our country walks. And Ithink you would buy one of these.
But next day, suppose you were to find a brightblue flower growing in the field, and wished verymuch t