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great deal more to know about Botany than this little volume 

 contains, you must be very diligent to learn all there is in it 

 so that you can go on with larger works. Then read the 

 beautiful extract from Dr. Darlington on next page, go on 

 with suggestions to teachers. Then directions for pronun- 

 ciation, the Judge will explain by reference to some terms in 

 the body of the book the use of accents. Then learn thor- 

 oughly the Greek and Latin numerals. You cannot go a step 

 without this knowledge. This well done, read carefully over 

 the Abbreviations and Signs, so that you may always know 

 where to look for them. Lesson 1st. then may occupy your 

 attention. Let it not pass until you know it perfectly, and 

 can readily answer every question. Whenever any part of 

 a plant is instanced in the book you must refer to the figure 

 and, if possible, procure a corresponding specimen. For 

 example, to illustrate Fig. 2, page 14, plant a hean or cucum- 

 ber seed, and when it comes up dig it and carefully examine 

 its parts, and associate with the appearance of its parts their 

 names; thus the commission of the many terms to memory 

 is greatly aided. Learn accurately the difference between 

 terms nearly similar, as Hirsute, Scabious, Tomentose and so 

 on. And be very careful, I repeat it, to find nature and see 

 the part or peculiarity described. Thus in illustration of 

 fig. 7, page 15, procure a leaf of the choke cherry and notice 

 upon the petiole or stem of the leaf 2 or 3 little hairs with 

 glands on the top. Lesson 1st learned, less. 2d may be taken 

 up. Now always look well to the heading of a chapter. 

 Classification introduced, think what classification means, and 

 then note that the lesson treats of grand divisions, that is the 

 largest divisions that can be made. Fig. 9 represents the 

 wake robin or beth root. Have the plant before you when you 

 study. You can use my Botany Box to collect. Shorten the 

 string so you can carry it well. As you go on with the various 

 divisions of leaves, roots, flowers, etc., get as many of each 

 class as possible to examine, and the labor of retaining so 



