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feel certain I could not learn them all. Julia 

 Williams has been studying botany a long time, 

 and yet even now, when she comes to a hard 

 word has to look in her glossary to find out its 

 meaning. I have seen her perplexed in this 

 way many and many a time. 



E. Which trouble arises from the fact that 

 she does not learn her subject thoroughly as she 

 proceeds. Persons of her disposition are always 

 poor scholars, and will inevitably remain so till 

 cured of such wretched habits. It is not be- 

 cause science is so difficult, but merely because 

 they are too indolent. Be always sure to study 

 the technical terms of any branch you commence 

 till you perfectly understand them ; do this in 

 botany and it will ensure you a rapid and easy 

 progress. Such a method of proceeding is the 

 only real test of good scholarship. 



L. I can easily see even now that you are 

 right, for if I was called on at this moment to 

 apply the rule you give relative to poisons, I 

 could not do it, as I do not even know what a 

 corolla is. 



E. It is the painted part of the flower often 

 called the blossom. In the pink before us, 

 (fig. 1.) the flat variegated portion with the 





