262 EXPLANATION 
Practice of this will foon make him retaia 
the Names of the Claffes, and their feveralk 
Diftinctions. 
When he has arrived thus far, he may be- 
gin to try his Strength, by deciding always 
firft himfelf upon the Clafs, before he turns 
to the Book ; and he will be now qualified 
to begin the Study of the Orders; which 
he may purfue after the fame Method as he 
did the Clafles, finding the Orders out firft 
by the Tables, reading their Characters, and 
comparing them with the Flower, till he 
has gained a clear Notion of their feveral 
Diftin€&tions ; after which he fhould in like 
manner attempt to declare the Order him- 
felf. 
Thefe Subdivifions alfo of the Orders, tho* 
they are not made Part of the fyftematic Di- 
ftribution of Vegetables, are yet well worth 
his Attention; as in fome of the extenfive 
Orders it would be more troublefome to de- 
tect the Genus of any Flower, if the Genera 
contained in the Order were not parcelled 
out under fuch convenient Diftin@tions. By 
thefe Divifions, the Reader will be led to 
decide on any Plant within a very few Ge- 
nera. And here we mutt take our Leave of 
him, and refer the reft of the Work to his 
own Induftry; for though we have laid 
down 
