A COURSE 3S 



I4th. L. Illustrate the analysis of plants in the 16th 

 and 17th classes. 



loth. L. Illustrate the analysis of plants in the 18th 

 and 19th classes. 



16th. L. Illustrate the analysis of plants in the 20th 

 and 2 1st classes. 



17th. L. Illustrate the analysis of plants in the 1st, 2d, 

 3d, arid 4th orders of the 22d class. 



1.8th. L. Illustrate the analysis of the plants of the 5th 

 and 6th orders of the sad class. 



These 18 lectures will lie sufficient, if you question your 

 pupils thoroughly at the Examination meetings, and 

 cause them to collect arid analyze a great number of 

 plants. 



It is best at first to give them the names of plants, and 

 direct them to read the descriptions, and then point out to 

 you the part to which each term in the description ap- 

 plies. In a few days this practice will familiarize them 

 with the method of applying the language of description. 



It is found very useful to give about one public evening 

 lecture on the physiology of plants each week, gratuitous- 

 ly ; at which your pupils are to invite all their friends. 

 It is found to excite an interest very favorable to science. 



Or COLLECTING AND PRESERVING PLANTS. 



You should persuade as many of your pupils to collect 

 wild plants as possible. For there is no method of fixing 

 the name, habit and habitat of a plant in the memory e- 

 qual to seeing it in its growing state and analyzing it 

 where we collect it. You can generally persuade ladies 

 to go out by turn in small parties and collect plants in 

 the nearest open fields. And young gentlemen will 

 search the woods, swamps, and the more distant and less 

 accessable places. There should always be an arrange- 

 ment respecting the days in which each little party will 

 go out, and each party "should take pretty large baskets, 

 so as to collect specimens for the whole class. By this 

 method there will never be a want of specimens. You 

 must go whenever you can spare time, and teach those 

 who accompany you how to examine minutely and col- 

 lect with care. But you will be obliged to spend a large 

 portion of your time in collecting specimens for illustra- 



