CHAPTER I. 



Advantages of the Study of Botany.* 



1. You are now about to commence a study which was for- 

 merly thought too difficult for children, but which is, ill reality, 

 much easier than many to which they usually attend. 



2. In Grammar, you can have no assistance from maps or 

 pictures, every thing in this science depends on the powers of 

 the understanding; and it affords no pleasant objects to delight 

 the eye. But Grammar is a very useful study, and should 

 be pursued while you are young; and other studies, especially 

 the one you are about to commence, will help you to understand 

 it. 



3. Geography is easier than Grammar, because you may have 

 maps or pictures of countries before you, and the eye impresses 

 on the mind the relative situation of places, the direction of 

 mountains, the course of rivers, &c. but if, instead of maps, 

 you could have the countries themselves before you, to examine 

 with your eyes and hands, if you could see the people who live 

 in them standing before you, how much deeper would be your 

 impressions of Geography ! 



4. You are now to study Botany ; here the objects about which 

 you are to learn, will be placed before you, to see, to touch, and 

 to smell. Thus three of your senses will be called upon to aid 

 the memory and understanding ; and as flowers are objects of 

 much beauty and interest, your imagination also maybe grati- 

 fied. 



5. Your emotions, too, will be warmed by the thought of His 

 love and kindness who causeth the earth to bring forth, not only 



* NOTE. It is important, for the teacher to ask the pupils to give 

 the heads of the chapters, either at the commencement or close of the 

 lesson. 



1. What is said of the study you are about to commence'* 

 3, What is said of the study of Grammar 7 



3. What renders Geography an easier study than Grammar 1 



4. Are the objects about which you study in Botany manifested to 

 the senses ? 



5. What effect has the contemplation of flowers upon the emotions ? 



