OPINIONS. 



" A splendid exposition of 

 the principles of botany, and most 

 valuable text-book for the student." 

 Pharma. Record, Netv York. 



"A very satisfactory and worthy textbook." 

 Public Opinion, New York. 



" Here is a botany that actually gives the science of 



plant life and how to study it in all its forms and phases. 



* * The new method will lay for the student the foundations 



of horticulture, agriculture, etc., as the old method never could do." — 



Am. Microscopical Journal. 



" The subject is treated * * with many practical exercises interspersed, which 



will serve as valuable hints to the teacher, as well as of direct advantage to the 



student." — Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club. 



"The author has prepared his text with great care, and has brought together in 

 compact shape much that is best in modern botany." — Botanical Gazette. 



" The whole work shows great care in its prepara tion, the illustrations being 

 numerous, the language simple, the type and paper excellent, and the binding sub- 

 stantial and handsome." — C/ias. Rice t Ph.D., New York City. 



" Tn the first three parts of the book practical exercises are introduced at the end 

 of each chapter, so that the student may actually work out for himself what he has 

 read in the text and seen in the illustrations. We believe it to be the best textbook 

 of botany for schools and and colleges yet published." — The Microscope, Detroit. 



" The best and most thorough of American treatises having the same general 

 scope." — Evening Journal, Chicago. 



"It is free from needless technicalities, remarkably clear and interesting to read, 

 and arranged with a view to teachability. In short, everything has been done to 

 make the book worthy of its title and of even greater favor than was shown its pre- 

 decessor." — Wisconsin Journal of Education. 



"The whole subject is very thoroughly treated in all aspects." — Floral Guide. 



"The Elements of Botany, by the same author as the present College Botany, 

 was most favorably received by teachers of this delightful science. We find that the 

 important features which made the earlier book so popular have been conserved in 

 this higher treatise. It is free from all unnecessary technicalities, and unfolds the 

 subject in a way that makes it plain and interesting to any student of fair intelligence. 

 In describing plants, the common, as well as the scientific, names are given and fami- 

 liar plants are selected for the illustration of structures. While not intended for the 

 specialist, it covers the ground desirable in a college course, and opens the way, by 

 the best approved methods, and acquaints the student with the essential facts of the 

 science, and makes the study of plants a delight." — Journal of Education, Boston. 



" Bastin's College Botany is a work admirably adapted to the class room. The 

 illustrations are unusually good, and the text is written in clear, concise style. The 

 author dwells upon the lessons of practical value, and covers very completely the 

 delightful subject which many text books make wearisome by numberless unimportant 

 technical terms that are soon forgotten. Two new chapters on Organography and 

 Vegetable Histology appended to Vegetable Physiology are valuable additions. We 

 have seen no work on botany arranged ior the class-room which combines so much of 

 the practical and useful and interesting as the volume under review. And this we 

 may say after many years of teaching the science." — Chicago Inter- Ocean. 



" We heartily commend the work alike to teachers and students. " — Prof. John 

 M. Maisch, in American Journal of Pharmacy, Philadelphia. 



" It must be a luxury to the student to study so delightful a subject from so useful 

 and, I may add. so beautiful a book." — Marshall D. Ewell, Dep' t Natural History 

 Northwestern University. 



" I am pleased with the arrangement and treatment of subjects and have been 

 especially interested in the portions treating of Taxonomy." — Prof. George Beck, 

 Wisconsin State Normal School. 



