TEE WONDERS AND USES OF A LEAF. 



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I S intimated in a preceding chapter, the 

 prosecution of this new study by one 

 whose attention had never been directed 

 to botanical investigations, will unfold a 

 world of novelties to which she had heretofore been a 

 stranger. She will insensibly become a botanist. The 

 leaves becoming her peculiar study, she will be sur- 

 prised by the discovery of peculiarities, and charmed 

 by the revelation of beauties, which she did not imagine 

 as existing in the leafy world. From a desire to ex- 

 tend her knowledge of the subject, she will consult the 

 numerous botanical authorities which crowd the shelves 

 (72) 



