The collection called A Bunch of Herbs, and Other Papers, forming
No. 92 of the Series, was designed with special reference to what the
author has to say of trees and flowers, and contains A Bunch of Herbs
from Pepacton, Strawberries from Locusts and Wild Honey, A March
Chronicle and Autumn Tides from Winter Sunshine, A Spray of Pine and
A Spring Relish from Signs and Seasons, and English Woods: A Contrast
from Fresh Fields.




INTRODUCTION.



It is seldom that I find a book so far above children that I cannot
share its best thought with them. So when I first took up one of
John Burroughs's essays, I at once foresaw many a ramble with my pupils
through the enchanted country that is found within its breezy pages.
To read John Burroughs is to live in the woods and fields, and to
associate intimately with all their little timid inhabitants; to learn
that--

"God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here."

When I came to use Pepacton in my class of the sixth grade, I soon
found, not only that the children read better but that they came
rapidly to a better appreciation of the finer bits of literature in