Excerpt from Familiar Features of the Roadside: The Flowers, Shrubs, Birds, and Insects Fortunately, there are extremely few who know every wild flower and who can name every shrub by its leaf. And every bird, frog, cricket, and grass hopper by his song. If there were such a man, how intolerably wise he would be! The world is wide. 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.