CHAPTER IV.
Looking round the library one day, to see if I could see any more books about gardening, I found the Book of Paradise.
It is a very old book, and very queer.

It has a brown leather back--not russia--and stiff little gold flowers and ornaments all the way down, where Miller's Dictionary has gold swans in crowns, and ornaments.
There are a good many old books in the library, but they are not generally very interesting--at least not to us.

So when I found that though this one had a Latin name on the title-page, it was written in English, and that though it seemed to be about Paradise, it was really about a garden, and quite common flowers, I was delighted, for I always have cared more for gardening and flowers than for any other amusement, long before we found Miller's Gardener's Dictionary.

And the Book of Paradise is much smaller than the Dictionary, and easier to hold.

And I like old, queer things, and it is very old and queer.
The Latin name is _Paradisi in sole, Paradisus terrestris_, which we do not any of us understand, though we are all learning Latin; so we call it the Book of Paradise.