PARTS OF A FLOWER. O 



that your progress will be easy ; and you need 

 not go any farther than you choose. An indolent 

 person, it is true, can never expect to become 

 a good botanist, nor, indeed, to excel in any 

 thing. When Linnaeus was about to publish one 

 of his most celebrated works *, he examined the 

 characters of eight thousand flowers; rj that you 

 may judge how very industrious he must have been. 

 If you are attentive, and try to remember what I 

 shall tell you, I think that at the end of a month 

 you may be able to examine the flowers you meet 

 with in your walks, without my assistance. 



EDWARD. 



I long to begin ! Will you take a walk with 

 me to-morrow in the fields, to bring home some 

 flowers ? 



MOTHER. 



With pleasure, my dear ; I am very glad to see 

 you so eager to begin this delightful study. But 

 before we set out, you had better learn the names 

 of the different parts of a plant. You already 

 know, that the Root is what grows in the 

 ground, and supplies the rest with nourishment. 

 The Stem rises from the root, and is generally 

 clothed with green leaves. The Flower is the 

 beautifully coloured part that you so often admire : 



* Genera Plantarum, Genera of Plants. 

 B 3 



