BOTANY FOR YODNG PEOPLE. 3 



In the First Part of this book we proceed to consider, under four principal 

 heads or chapters, — 



I. How Plants Grow, and what their Parts or Organs are, Chapter I. Page 5 



The Parts of a Plant, Section I. Page 5. 



How Plants grow from the Seed, . " II. " 10. 



How Plants grow Year after Year, " III. " 23. 



Different Forms or Kinds of Roots, Stems, and Leaves, " IV. " 34. 



II. How Plants are Propagated or' Multiplied in Numbers, Chapter II. Page 56. 



How Propagated from Buds, Section I. Page 56. 



How Propagated by Seeds, " II. " 58. 



Flowers : their Arrangement, their Sorts, &c., " III. " 58. 



Fruit and Seed, " IV. " 77. 



III. Why Plants Grow ; what they are made for, and what 



they do, Chapter HI. Page 85. 



rV. How Plants are Classified, Named, and Studied, Chapter IV. Page 93. 



Classification, — as to the Plan of it, Section I. Page 93. 



Names of Plants, " II. " 94 



The Natural System of Classification in Botany, " III. " 96. 



How to study Plants by the Flora, in Part II., " IV. " 99. 



The Second Part of the book consists of a Popular Flora for Beginners, viz. 

 a Classification and Description (according to the Natural System) of the Common 

 Plants of the country, both Wild and Cultivated. 



Then follows a Dictionary of the peculiar tei-ms which we have occasion to use 

 in describing plants, or their parts, combined with a full Index to Part I. Every 

 science, and every art or occupation, has terms or technical words of its own, and 

 must have them. Without them, all would be confusion and guess-work. In Bot- 

 any the number of technical words which a young student need to know is by no 

 means great, and a little diligent study and practice will make them familiar. 



The first and most important thing for the student is, to know well the general 

 plan of a plant and the way it grows ; the parts plants consist of; the uses of the sev- 

 eral parts ; their general forms, and the names which are used to distinguish theni 

 This is all very interesting and very useful in itself; and it is indispensable for study, 

 ing plants with any satisfaction or advantage to find out their names, their proper^ 

 ties, and the family they belong to ; i. e. to ascertain the kinds of plants. 



