Excerpt from Wayside and Woodland Blossoms: A Pocket Guide to British Wild-Flowers for the Country Rambler IT is generally considered a rash experiment to publish a second series of a book of which the first series was so far complete in itself. The author who does so is often considered to be presuming upon the kindness and the long-suffering of the public, or he is riding a hobby to death. The public sometimes resent this proceeding, and decline a second helping from the same dish. The present Author has fond hopes that a large number, if not all, of those who so rapidly caused the exhaustion of the first edition of the previous volume will feel how apposite to their case is the quotation we have already made from John Burroughs, the American writer on nature. We will repeat what we stated in the Preface to the First Series that there are about seventeen hundred flowering plants and ferns indigenous to the British Isles, of which only four hundred could be dealt-with in the First Series. It does not appear to us unreasonable to suppose that many ramblers who carry the First Series in their right-hand jacket-pocket will be glad to have a volume of similar size and purpose to put in the left-hand pocket, and so preserve the equilibrium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.