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on part of your way, I hope it will lead you to examine 

 carefully, and to understand fully, each flower that 

 you examine by it. For then, you will soon be able 

 to turn to a work describing every British Plant, 

 for information respecting other plants. 



It is to Sir William Hooker's "British Flora,"* that 

 I am most gratefully indebted for all the Botanical 

 descriptions this volume contains ; and in that work 

 you will find every plant so fully described, and 

 arranged in such beautiful order, that you can learn 

 from its pages, the name and character of every plant 

 you meet with in your rambles. 



Do not shrink from a few difficulties at the com- 

 mencement of this study ; remember the time when 

 you began to learn music, how difficult that study 

 appeared ; and how many months passed before you 

 could play one sweet air perfectly ; but you persevered, 

 and how very easy does that first air now appear to 

 you. The study of plants (as well as of all God's 



* The British Flora arranged according to the Natural System 

 by Sir W. Hooker and Dr. Arnott. 



