Frances Theodora Parsons (writing under her pen name Mrs. William Starr Dana) was a pioneering American naturalist whose accessible and poetic field guides democratized botany at the turn of the twentieth century. *According to Season* leads the reader through the unfolding blooms of the year, pairing vivid observations of northeastern wildflowers with keen scientific curiosity. This elegant 1990 Houghton Mifflin slipcased edition faithfully revives the expanded 1902 work, featuring 16 lovely fu